Ok, people think im crazy when I said I wanted a single core for my dream machine. Here is my explanation made by using passmark scores, and my gaming experience.
So you have a dual core, big huge passmark score somewhere in the 800's, now over here, you have a bigger tri sitting in the 1200's, and now you have a single sitting in the 500's, that outpaces them all in one game.
A single core, unlike other multi cores, can combine its power into one game, which makes it run fast. When it runs 2 games, it splits its power into which one consumes more power. But leaving only a small portion of its power to the other game, which runs slowly.
A dual core, like ALL other multi cores, cannot combine the power of both cores into one program, whuch means, while your fiddling with one game, half of the proccesor is just idling off into space... But you can find increased preformance when you play 2 or 3 games at once, because both cores arenow highly active, both splitting a tiny portion of their power to a third game, if nessicary.
How do I find out which is better?
Amd Phenom II X2 3.2Ghz will definatly outrun any single core on the market today, as its split passmark is about 1184, but what about someone who doesn't have $100 for a cpu?
The fastest single core is about $75 and reaches a whoping 700 passmarks, killing out most dual cores of the same price, and some even more, for instance, take this 2.5ghz athlon 64 fx 57, and compare it to a 3.8ghz Pentium D, passmarks are unevenly tilted tward the Pentium, but it has 2 cores, so you have to divide it by 2 to get its real preformance, and its astonishing, the Pentium D gets only 400 passmarks per core, as the 64, 700.
But at what point does this rule stop getting effective?
As I said, the fastest single core ONLY gets 700, and if your paying $75 for a single core, you need some asprine for your marbles.
My Advice: If your planning on getting a cheap little computer to fiddle your games at a low price, go single, but if your wanting so adrenaline gaming going on, go with a dual or tri core, remember, the more the cores, the more the games, but, the more you have to split its passmarks to get its raw preformance.
Always remember: Look at the number of cores, and its passmark score before deciding on a cpu, you might be surprised at its raw preformance...
And: to find its raw preformance, divide the passmark score by the number of cores/cpus...
I hope this helped fight some confusoin here...
So you have a dual core, big huge passmark score somewhere in the 800's, now over here, you have a bigger tri sitting in the 1200's, and now you have a single sitting in the 500's, that outpaces them all in one game.
A single core, unlike other multi cores, can combine its power into one game, which makes it run fast. When it runs 2 games, it splits its power into which one consumes more power. But leaving only a small portion of its power to the other game, which runs slowly.
A dual core, like ALL other multi cores, cannot combine the power of both cores into one program, whuch means, while your fiddling with one game, half of the proccesor is just idling off into space... But you can find increased preformance when you play 2 or 3 games at once, because both cores arenow highly active, both splitting a tiny portion of their power to a third game, if nessicary.
How do I find out which is better?
Amd Phenom II X2 3.2Ghz will definatly outrun any single core on the market today, as its split passmark is about 1184, but what about someone who doesn't have $100 for a cpu?
The fastest single core is about $75 and reaches a whoping 700 passmarks, killing out most dual cores of the same price, and some even more, for instance, take this 2.5ghz athlon 64 fx 57, and compare it to a 3.8ghz Pentium D, passmarks are unevenly tilted tward the Pentium, but it has 2 cores, so you have to divide it by 2 to get its real preformance, and its astonishing, the Pentium D gets only 400 passmarks per core, as the 64, 700.
But at what point does this rule stop getting effective?
As I said, the fastest single core ONLY gets 700, and if your paying $75 for a single core, you need some asprine for your marbles.
My Advice: If your planning on getting a cheap little computer to fiddle your games at a low price, go single, but if your wanting so adrenaline gaming going on, go with a dual or tri core, remember, the more the cores, the more the games, but, the more you have to split its passmarks to get its raw preformance.
Always remember: Look at the number of cores, and its passmark score before deciding on a cpu, you might be surprised at its raw preformance...
And: to find its raw preformance, divide the passmark score by the number of cores/cpus...
I hope this helped fight some confusoin here...