"The problem doesn't lie in the settings, it lies between the monitor and the chair" Hmmmm, between my monitor & chair is the keyboard & mouse...lol.

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"Hmmmm, between my monitor & chair is the keyboard & mouse...lol." jam, when did you turn into hollow man?.....LOL Give it up for MC Rove

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"Your games will not take advantage of dual core if those games aren't designed for dual cores. It's only been recently that games are starting to be designed to take advantage of dual cores." I am sorry, but this is wrong. It is true that one core will process more information than the other, but 25% or more of the actual processing will be moved over to the second core, even if the games were designed without dual core in mind, and I don't care what the white papers and the web reviews say. It has nothing to do with the way games or benchmarks were designed, it has to do with the daul-core architecture itself and how it chooses to prioritize the thread processing. You can see it for yourself in Windows Task Manager if you want to. Case in point: Benchmarks I run like AquaMark or 3dMark2001 or Commanche4 show significant boosts in dual-core cpu's, even before the processors are overclocked. I upgraded from an A64 3000+ to an X2 4400+ and at stock 2.2 ghz stock gained up to 15% OVER my OVERCLOCKED 3000+, which ran at 2350 mhz. I overclock my 4400+ to 2937 mhz and now record between 20% and 60% over the oc'd 3000+ scores, depending on the benchmark of course. Will you see a difference in your games if you upgrade to X2? Don't expect an X2 to make up the difference between GeForce 6 and 7/8, especially in newer games, but HELL YES, you will see a remarkable improvement. 3800+ is an excellent overclocker, all the X2's and dual-core Opty's are. And as cheap as they are right now, you won't regret it. Peace and Out, Tripper. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered, my life is my own!" - #6 http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc... "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered, my life is my own!" - #6 http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=186930

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So let me get this straight. You’re saying that top sites like Tom Hardware and what they say about how games won't take advantage of dual cores that don't support dual cores are wrong, but yet you are claiming that your method is right just because you do a few tests? Yeah sorry I think I’m going to believe the guys that spend 10's of thousands of dollars on reviewing products then I am someone that runs a few test. Furthermore you're missing the point of how dual core games work and how they can take full advantage of dual cores cpu’s with simultaneous load rendering. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz 4GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7900GT SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

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Yeah, they got it wrong; they spend tens of thousands of dollars to prove themselves right, but the fact is you can prioritize how each processor handles the load; it may not necessarily improve the performance, much like the dual-core gpu's which run games and such not designed for them either, but those duties are split to some degree between the two cores and there will, or should, be at the least a minor boost. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered, my life is my own!" - #6 http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=186930

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Ok well again your test vs 3 diff other top websites say diff, so yeah i'm going to tend to beleive what they say. I think they would know more about what they are talking about then some personal user running a few test. My statement stands. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz 4GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7900GT SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

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