Dual core Hot or not...

[StaticS]

Who has a dual core processor,and bugs or catch's with it,is it worth it and how much did u pay for it?

Plz post ur reply's.

[sss]

bf2 dislikes dual core

[Brawler]

I got a AMD Athlon X2 3800+ (2x 2000MHz 2x 512kb).
It really kicks ass I really cant see a reason not to get one besides the higher price. I have played nearly every new game on it and I have had absolutely NO trouble with it, actually the opposite I am always 1st to load on BF2 which has its advantages:) In the beggining there were problems with dual core with various applications including games but AMD brought out a driver to sort it out, available here: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html
Its really shows its power with multitasking, ripping, encoding etc. Can run multiple resource hog programs without a hitch(obviously you need enough RAM). On my Athlon 2800 it takes a good few hours(+- 4) to encode a DivX movie to DVD format, the AThlon X2 does it in like 20mins. Dual core is definately the way things are going so if you are upgrading now I will definately recommend to go the dual core way because more and more apps/games are becoming multithreaded. I paid R2565 for mine, it should be a lil cheaper by now though...

[Ruslan74]

what OS you running Brawler? Is it Xp 32 bit or Xp 64 bit?

we had a guy at the LAN who has a dual core and some games tend to hiccup ( ie. warp ingame ) even with AMD's patch installed.

most newer games which use the ID engine have support for dual-core CPU's and in the future expect more and more games to do so since most SDK's need to have that feature enabled due to console game development too.

[doobiwan]

People really need to pay more attention to details.

I know a few people that bought WinXp 64-bit, just because they thought they had to with the AMD64's. 9/10 the problem is that, not the chips.

It's like we're back to the Windows NT / win 98 situation.

[SlappY]

Well I got a simialr rig. Ran Quake 4 normal, then did the dual core patch, it made a MASSIVE difference (havent run any metrics, but it is so noticably different you dont really have to). Also the new nVidia drivers are sposed to make use of dual core. BF intially had some issue, but they seem to have gone away. Most new gaming engines are going to support it.

[Brawler]

what OS you running Brawler? Is it Xp 32 bit or Xp 64 bit?


Windows XP 32-Bit fully updated.

[StaticS]

Im running Windows X64-bit will i get problems with dual-core?

[Rateltaai]

Running a x2 4200 and no problems to report.

RT

[StaticS]

cool RT me mother says i can get a 2x4400and not the 2x3800 anymore!

[Super Chocolate Bear]

Well I have been running an X2 4400+ for quite some time now and the only problem I have had was jerky gameplay in Counter Strike Source. This is very easily fixed tho. Alt Tab out to windows and bring up the task manager (Ctrl Alt Del) then go to processes and select Hl2.exe or whatever the game may be. Right click --> set affinity and then assign it to only core 1 or core 0. Problem fixed :)

Like brawler said if you buy now not going Dual core would be a waste.

I dont really see an improvement with Quake 4 but I think it is because I "only" have a 6800GT.