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Quad Core Gaming Pointless? Waste of Money?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-02 22:10

Okay honestly I am not sure but, from the gaming aspect I see quad core as a marketing thing for gamers... in otherwords really overrated, and I kind of find it weird that it took me this long to figure it out on my own, I probably was blinded by all the marketing of manufacturers like alienware. Just take a look at their systems on their website http://alienware.com/product_pages/desktop_all_default.aspx ... they're all mostly quad core.

I haven't heard of many games that are optimized to run on Quad Core Processors hell even 8 core systems. In fact I beleive alot of games run better on Dual Core processors as opposed to Quad and so forth.
Its kind of like spending money on a Ageia physX card that only is designed to run with a handful of certain games.
I can get a powrful gaming system for the price of some of these Quad Core proccesors.

Does anyone disagree or agree?
or know any games that are optimized to run with a 4 or 8 core CPU? - I only know one or two.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-05 5:18

>>11
All I know for sure is... if you are running BF2 and transferring like 40GB file at the same time it would.
If your operating system is cancerous, maybe. The CPU should only barely be called on for file transfers.

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