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Originally Posted by nikhsub1
Dual cores won't be as good for games as the FX55. Dual core (SMP in general) is not optimized for gaming yet, plus you have some latency with the duals that you don't see in a single CPU setup. Once games are multithreaded, this won't be the case.
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If the DC is running at roughly the same frequency of a single core counterpart, then the performance difference should be negligible.
The main limiter on frequency for all DC designs is thermals.
Aaron Spink
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