Question: To Dual Core, or not to Dual Core. That is the qn? Hey, follow up on my previous qn.\n\nI am currently using an AMD athlon XP 2800+ system.\noverclocked to 2.3ghz (not sure abt the cache, if there is, i roughly think it's abt 512kb)\n768mb ram\nand 8xAGP 256mb ATI Radeon 9600 power colour.\n\nIs it worth upgrading to dual core D805 2.66ghz? about 2mb cache i think.\n\nWould there be an improvement in performance of my game? If so, roughly what's the percentage in improvement? considering the same amount of ram?

Answer: if you currently have XP 2800, there are many other CPU's with same price as dual core 805 that can boost your gaming speed.\n\nDon't get confuse about speed and multi-tasking.  \n\nFor $100, you can buy a dual-core 805 or a pentium 4 541 3.2GHZ 800MHZ.\n\nThe matter of choice really rely on what you use the system for.  Dual-core can handle multitasking extremely well.  For instant, it allow you encode a DVD and playing game at the same time.  The pentium 541 in the other hand will significantly speed up single task program, like gamming machine. \n\nSo if multi-tasking is not important, consider a single core.\n\ngood luck
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