everyone get a quad core

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a12331 said:

Katilian said:

a12331 said:
but when they cheaper than dual cores, they are a steal, and this one is one of the best cpus out there

Firstly, the E8400 is $189.99, so the quad core isn't cheaper. Secondly, it really depends on what you need. The E8400 is a more powerful chip per core than the Q6600 (Faster FSB, Faster Clock, 45nm). As has been mention, for the average user, they'll get more benefit out of the faster dual core than a slower quad core.

 

 

It may have all those features, but the q6600 has 2 cores extra to do its work. Also you can easily overclock this cpu rather than the e8400

For gaming it doesn't help very much, because the extra cores aren't used in many games. I don't know about overclocking though since I got my pentium dual core(same as a core 2 duo just with half the cache) to 3.0ghz from 1.6ghz  and its still running under 40⁰C. The chip was $70 when I bought it and now they have some that overclock to 4.0ghz from I think 2.6ghz for around $100. Right now quad cores aren't too useful. In the future they may be though.