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Old August 26th, 2005, 09:10 AM
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I do tend to have a few things running simultaneously, usually while playing MMOGs of some variety, during the downtime I'm often burning CDs or web browsing, etc. And since most games music tends not to suit my tastes, I almost always have an MP3 player running in the background. On the current machine, I usually run into a annoyingly noticeable delay when switching between programs. Would dual core help with that at all? And of course once games start taking advantage of dual cores, that'll be a bonus as well.

On the AMD side of things, I was looking at their website and I noticed the 'top' AMD processors, the FX-55 and the FX-57 seem to have dropped dual core technology. Does anyone know if they've done anything fancy to make up for this?
The FX series is unlocked, and intended for the OC'ing market. While the DC chips are mainstream. There is a performance hit for DC overhead, so a single core chip will out perform a DC chip of the same speed/core on most games. But AMD chips are not good multi-taskers, and the DC chips fix this.
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Old August 26th, 2005, 12:52 PM
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Hmmm... Looks like I'll be going for the 3.2GHz DC in that case. The EE is about 400eur more expensive and it doesn't sound like it'll make much of a difference for the amount I'll have to pay. Thanks guys, & once everything's finalized I'll post the specs for my new rig for y'all to drool over.
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