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Offline Gnoblar

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Dual Cores.
« on: April 20, 2009, 12:32:05 am »
What's wrong with dual core processors? I keep hearing bad things about them. I assume their quite good, are they?

Mine is Intel Core Duo 2 2.53GHz
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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2009, 12:40:01 am »
Well when the first one came out (in 2005, it was actually released by AMD) it didn't do anything for gaming, maybe they were a problem back then but now they shit all over single cores (which you can't even buy anymore)
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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2009, 01:01:06 am »
And the market is moving towards quad cores. Multiprocessor cores are fine, just make sure you have adequate cooling.
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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2009, 01:33:41 am »
Quote from: Gnoblar on April 20, 2009, 12:32:05 am
What's wrong with dual core processors? I keep hearing bad things about them. I assume their quite good, are they?

Mine is Intel Core Duo 2 2.53GHz
Nothing they're perfectly fine for gaming, Quads are for PS and other things that need multi threading or whatever it's called.

Why do you people just say you have a Intel Core Duo 2 and don't mention the model you have? I mean what the fuck? I know you have a fucking dual core, tell me what kind.

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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2009, 01:56:46 am »
Quote from: Fireman on April 20, 2009, 01:33:41 am
Why do you people just say you have a Intel Core Duo 2 and don't mention the model you have? I mean what the fuck? I know you have a fucking dual core, tell me what kind.

lol... calm down
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Offline Gnoblar

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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2009, 04:50:46 am »
Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz


There we are. Found it.
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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2009, 07:03:49 am »
Theres nothing wrong with dual cores, software (games) just needs to catch up.

See when you run a bunch of programs your OS will distribute them to each of your cores, but if you're only running one big program it falls on the program to use hyperthreading, a big complicated word that just means splitting it's draw to all the cores.

Old programs will use only one core so your dual core is actually disadvantaged to my old 3.2 P4. But dual cores make up for this with their low power draw and low heat.

Dual cores are far superior in running lots of programs. jrgp is (probably) referring to people like him who buy stuff on newegg, dell and friends have full support of dual cores.
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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2009, 08:13:45 am »
Ok then good. My friend has a quad core and was going on about multi-threating and such, but I see that dual cores are good.

You can get a 250 core PC. I saw it on the nvidia website. Wow.
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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2009, 11:11:34 am »
Quote from: Fireman on April 20, 2009, 01:33:41 am
Why do you people just say you have a Intel Core Duo 2 and don't mention the model you have? I mean what the fuck? I know you have a fucking dual core, tell me what kind.

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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2009, 04:10:00 pm »
Quote from: Gnoblar on April 20, 2009, 08:13:45 am
You can get a 250 core PC. I saw it on the nvidia website. Wow.

I'm no hardware geek but aren't GPUs just made of a ton of little processors that run parallel?
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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2009, 07:23:50 pm »
That's odd, I've never heard anything bad about dual cores. Maybe back when they first came out they weren't very useful, because all the old programs weren't created with dual cores in mind. Now that problem has moved to quad cores, where generally it's only rendering/modeling/editing software that makes use of all 4 cores.
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Re: Dual Cores.
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2009, 09:26:45 pm »
Bang kaPOW!

Two is for noobs. I'd rather go with this.
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Hell yes.

And to answer your question, there's nothing wrong with dual core. Maybe you'll get slightly lower performance in cutting-edge games, but for the most part you'll see an improvement.
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