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(06-21-2009, 01:40 AM)portets Wrote: and everyone i know and myself all have linux 64 and vista 64 nowadayds.
... I don't. Nor do 40% of our regulars on the forums. But since they're not people you know personally I suppose you don't much care about them.
It's a long and complex explanation that I've made a few times here on the forum on why 64-bit isn't especially advantageous to the emulator -- and I'm not feeling like repeating it here (especially since it's completely off-topic!). A search will turn it up.
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A quad isnt useful in 90% of cases, unless you do a lot of video editing and 3d artwork creation, the emulator (and most games) will only take advantage of 2 cores. It will be cheaper and more advantageous for you to get a better dual core for the same price.
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Key word there is *slight* and it really is almost unnoticeable. I guess newer apps will start supporting more cores but we are pretty far from that at this time,seeing only professional tools like image/video editing software only support more than 2 cores
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There is however the benefit that Windows spreads the processing over all cores unless the application says otherwise.
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You can easily overclock the E7400 one so it also runs at 3.0 GHz with the stock cooler, so why not buy that one?