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q6600 quad core vs x9000 dual core

post #1 of 3
7/22/08 at 9:07pm
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Good day i want to ask which of these processors is better for games?q6600 quad core or x9000 dual core?
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7/23/08 at 3:09am
For gaming, all you need is at least dual core. After that, processor speed becomes king, so go with whichever one is faster out of those two.
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7/24/08 at 4:42am
There is absolutely 0 point to buying a quad core for gaming. For certain video processing apps that even support multiple cores, quad cores rule. The fact is games either don't support multiple cores, or don't need that much cpu. Games are gpu hungry beasts (look at crysis shredding even the fastest gpu's (SLI GTX 280)).

Gaming it's best to buy the fastest and most overclockable dual core you can afford. In my desktop I dropped in a e8400 @3.0 ghz and overclocked it up to 4.2 ghz and would have kept going but my cooling was only stock.

For gaming right now the best match up is a dual core with SLI 8800 gt's....$200 for the cpu, $280 for the video. That configuration (in desktops) will easily play all of today's modern games in plenty high detail (crysis high 4x AA) and will certainly be able to play future games for years.
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