Core 2 Duo better than Quad Core ?

[$tatic]

Hi, here I have seen people who say that in a game that Core 2 Duo is better than a Quad Core one.

But I see no reason why! The Quad is not better?

[Terrextre]

A dual core has a frequency higher than a quad core (equal price). Like most games that take advantage of 4 cores but only use 2 cores, it is more beneficial to have a faster than quadcore, i.e. dualcore.

Example: A E8500 (2 cores at 3.16GHz) will be more perf in games that Q6600 (4 cores at 2.4GHz).

[Marthaz]

Yes indeed it is only a question of price, as a Core 2 Duo at a given frequency is often equals to equivalent quad frequency, with a budget largely doubled. In some cases, keep all the money to make a better graphics card.

Example:
E5200: Duo 3MB cache, 2.5GHz
E8400: Duo 6MB cache, 3GHz
Q8200: Quad 4MB cache, 2.33GHz

E7300: Duo 3MB cache, 2.66GHz
E8600: Duo 6MB cache, 3.33GHz
Q8400: Quad 6MB cache, 2.66GHz

For a game or a program operated only 2 hard cores, the E5200 or E7300 will be about as effective equal frequency, and the E8400 (or frequency above), will be much more efficient.

[Rajesh4mLA]

A Core 2 Duo processor has 2 processing cores, while a Core 2 Quad processor has 4 processing cores. More cores enables your computer to multi-task (more than one thing at a time) faster and more efficiently as you have more engines spreading out the workload amongst themselves. Core 2 Quad processors are more expensive, but they are probably better to buy now if you are future proofing yourself. You don't need to worry about switching video cards, RAM etc.

[in_msz]

personally what i believe is intel dual core 1.8 with 2 gb ram is enough for general home and office users ,bcoz the intel people are not transparent about the real difference in there productss .
But if you are a gamer it makes a difference and that too in very high end games and if u own a graphic card 1gb it is more than enough.
and windows xp does not support more than 4 gb ram.