New CPU: Quad or Dual

**Toker** · 08-27-07, 06:20 PM

Building a new comp. for my Pops and I can't decide between the two. This is for multi-tasking purposes...

So the two up in the air:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115002

Good reviews and I've OC'd a few like this recently.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115017

Quad is the shizzzzz. 8m L2...

Whadya think?

**cop1991** · 08-27-07, 06:23 PM

Quad all over the place.

**MotoZ** · 08-27-07, 06:34 PM

Quad FTW. Less cost, more performance.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_20...=871&chart=419

edit: corrected link

**Toker** · 08-27-07, 06:37 PM

Nice link..

Spending his money is making me jealous and I already wanna build another comp for myself. I just built one like 3 months ago.

**Nuckle** · 08-27-07, 07:08 PM

I built a few months ago and I went dual. Mainly because I was not ready for the vista switch. I did however make sure that I bought a quad ready MB so that when I change to vista I can also move to a quad.

Nuck

**Mcstrange** · 08-27-07, 09:38 PM

between those two, Quad. Period.

**Nuckle** · 08-27-07, 09:48 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115028

This would be the money if you were running XP IMO. Atleast if I understand it correctly that XP cant utilize a quad core CPU. Hell, I am half way temped in trying to sell my 6700 and getting one myself

Nuck

**Mcstrange** · 08-27-07, 09:55 PM

XP cant but doesnt really need too, its the apps that run that use the cores. Game engines can and will be utilizing quads. Supreme Commander already does, and Valve will be updating the source engine to use as many procs as you can throw at with the next release.

**MotoZ** · 08-28-07, 12:32 AM

According to Microsoft's web site, Windows XP Home and Pro editions will run any single processor machine, regardless of the number of cores in the processor.

There is a limitation for multiprocessor machines (that is, a machine with two or more CPU sockets such as Opteron and Xeon dual and quad processor machines). For those beasts you need to have Windows XP Pro. For example, my machine has dual Pentium Xeons, and I must use Windows XP Pro.

**HeavyG** · 08-28-07, 04:58 AM

I just purchased the E6850 with an ABIT IP35 Pro. This thing will fucking scream!!!

For benchmarking purposes, the quads are great. But for gaming, you can get more performance from the E6850 than you can from some of the quad cores.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/07/...007/index.html