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Old 11-04-2012, 01:03 AM   #16
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From my own personal research, I think games don't really take advantage of multiple cores anyway. Only multitasking multiple applications do.

So for gaming purposes, 8 cores is unnecessary. And this as well:
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Originally Posted by noTirl View Post
CPUs arent always just about how many cores they have. Depends on architecture and clock speeds i believe.
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