Quad core vs Dual core

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Cakedaddy
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Post by Cakedaddy »

Anyone else parts shopping? According to Tomshardware.com, the Core 2 Duo outperforms the Quad core cpu (6600) in all game benchmarks except for one, and even in that one, it loses to the quad by only a very small margin (about 3 fps). Am I missing something, or are games that apposed to quad core technology? Even the Supreme Commander test showed the Duo outperforming the quad. What are you finding?
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We covered this before, kinda.

Pretty much, it's hard for games to use and synch all those threads, so most don't use more than 1 or 2.

I'm sure we'll get there, especially for games that have lots of off-camera processing/synching (like simulation games).
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Games need to start using one of those cores in lieu of a physics card, which is a great idea in concept but pretty much unnecessary in a world of underutilized quad cores.

And graphics processing, for that matter.
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