Intel Dual-Core is here

[W1zzard]

Today Intel released their Pentium 840 Extreme Edition 3.2GHz Dual-Core CPU.

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[gR3iF]

hm watch www.tomshardware.de too

[DanTheBanjoman]

Exactly as predicted they're weak in gaming.

[gR3iF]

just because games are optimized for one core lets look if there will be a speed up with unreal 3 egine

[DanTheBanjoman]

That was exactly my argument before, games don't like multithreading (with some exceptions)
I do hope future engines will indeed take advantage of SMP

[gR3iF]

but games are multitasking for more than ne task per second made hopefully it will work well then