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[vish786]

which works better.

1)An AMD proccy with single core running 1.8 or a AMD Dual Core running at 1.8 ?

AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 3800+ @ 2GHz
OR
AMD Athlon (single Core) 3200+ @ 2GHz

2) Amd site also said that AMD Athlon (Single-Core) is good for gaming.

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[narangz]

Ofcourse the dual core i.e X2

[vish786]

but why do they say single core is good for gaming.

[slugger]

if the game has been optimsed to make use of the processing power of both d cores then obviusly dual-core is wat u shud go 4

but if it is not then AFAIK there will be no noticable difference in performance

if u plannin on runnin other appz like AV scan, photo-editin then again dual core is waht u shud go 4

but unless u got dual-monitor/keyborad setup, dont c u doing phot-editing and gamin @ d same time

basically d other core will take the load off the core that is being used for gaming

but if u r just gaming @ a given time then there will not b any diff

[Nav11aug]

yup... games perform better on dual cores only if they are written to take advantage of them. But , Photoshop ,video editing /audio editing softys are written to produce multiple threads which IS wht exactly dual cores are meant to handle

[[xubz]]

Its advisable to go for a Dual Core, Most of the games that are being released these days are optimized for Multiple Cores. (In fact, the soon-to-be-released Alan Wake will NOT even run on a single core proc.)

[Nav11aug]

oh Alan Wake is gonna call fr another upgrade damn.. itz first showoff itself was on a QuadCore