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This post has been edited by joe_star: Jan 10 2008, 09:24 AM

Hmm.........looking at the question posted by the poll starter, I would have to say dual core, or maybe in some cases even single core at the moment. Of course I'm looking at it from the average(and i mean reli average word using, bt downloading, dota-playing) joe's perspective. But multi-cores are the way to go for high end gaming, video encoding etc.

I'm not talking about performance bro. No doubt, in multithreaded apps more cores would win anytime. What I'm talking about is overall VALUE. That too depends on usage. I am totally fine using a single core to do my assignments and BT all day long, but I would be the 1st to say they're total sh1t for video encoding(not to mentin gaming n encoding at the same time, which i do sometimes ). Let me put it this way, not everyone would get the same value from a certain part. For average daily use, IMHO a single core would give the best value atm. Whereas anything else(gaming, video processing, etc etc) multicore all the way

Erm......im assuming that you're refering to a quadcores price now compared to the cost of a dual core conroe when it 1st came out? However let me put another take on it. An intel quadcore still costs arnd RM800-900. I put together my entire backup rig for RM700. Get what I'm trying to say now? I reiterate once again, its all about how you use the system. Although atm after seeing the launch of the new celeron dual cores and amd procs, I have to say that dual core is already a very budget solution.

Coz GE is a single threaded game. It does not take advantage of a dual core. So basically you would get the same performance as that of a single core proc of the same speed, although the dual core will be slightly better as other tasks can be handled by the other core

Hmm.........thread still going. I have to say dual core is still more than enough for the average joe. And must forget that I'm typing this offa single-core machine