[Dreidel]

Originally Posted by AMDPC

This is the stupidest thing I have every read. You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

1. A Pentium D 840/940 (3.2GHz) has TWO (dual) cores both running at 3.2GHz. None of this adding the frequency nonsense. C'mon don't spread this crap.

2. Dual cores are the future, no benefits my ass. Think about it this way. In your task manager you have a lot of backround applications running. For example, AIM, P2P program, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Firewall, ITunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp the list goes on forever... Now here's where the dual core advantage comes in. When you are gaming all of that backround stuff can be utilized on one of the two cores, while the gaming material is handled on the second core.

Furthermore, NVidia has been programing their graphics drivers to take advantage of dual cores, and all future software (yes games included) will be built around dual cores (Unreal Engine 3 anyone???)

Also, think about this... he can rip a DVD and play a game at the same time... no way your P4 can do that.

There is a huge difference and despite that nonsense you said, no Word will not load faster on his computer. That makes absolutely no sense at all. Both of your computers are 3.2GHz, so both will load Word the same.

And I hope you have $50 bucks ready to send to him cause guess what... you're wrong about your P4 single core out-preforming his dual core chip. His is superior to your in every way except that his has much higher power usage.

Oh i didn't read this guy's reply. Ya he basically summed it up as well. Dual core kicks ass single core is old technology.