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[Ph?bus]

It might be a demanding game, but as I said before, you can't make such a general statement. All quad cores are not better than dual cores. For instance, the Phenom II X4 is almost on par with the Core I3.

Computing power isn't all about how many cores you have, especially in the gaming world. The new Thuban processors (Phenom II X6) still get beat out by the Core I7 and the X6 is a hexacore processor, while the I7 is a quad core.

Proof?

 

[ShadowBlade72]

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_phenom_2_x6_1090t_performance/page5.asp
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_phenom_2_x6_1090t_performance/page6.asp
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_phenom_2_x6_1090t_performance/page7.asp
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_phenom_2_x6_1090t_performance/page8.asp
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_phenom_2_x6_1090t_performance/page9.asp
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_phenom_2_x6_1090t_performance/page10.asp
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_phenom_2_x6_1090t_performance/page11.asp

Those are all benchmarks. It also proves my point that some dual cores are better than quad cores.

 

[Ph?bus]

I don't doubt that, I just want to see some proof.
Well, and I know that some quads just suck. I used to have one. >.>

Where is the i3 PIIx4 comparison?

 

[ShadowBlade72]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2921/2 <--- I3 and Phenom II comparison.

 

[Ph?bus]

Oh. That's not too shabby.