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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 412611" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>More cores is better when you're running numerous applications at the same time since your PC can "assign" one core to do your photo editing, while another core is busy crunching numbers in your spreadsheet or streaming that movie you pirated. It's like giving your CPU a personal "secretary"; now there's someone to handle the lower level stuff so the other core can work exclusively on editing your photo. </p><p></p><p>Having dual cores at least seems to smooth out the overall computing experience in my opinion; that's a hard thing to define, though, and entirely subjective so just forget I said it. For your purposes four cores would be great (woo hoo!) but don't feel you NEED them, if the right PC comes along one with all the right stuff and suddenly you're all, "Hey, look! Quad Core!!" so much the better, but don't feel like it's a "shit" PC if it's only Core II Duo or what have you. I'd take a faster Core II Duo over a slower Quad Core all other things being equal. Still, nothing wrong with more cores.</p><p></p><p>I'd tell you to put "Quad Core" in the, "Nice to Have (But Not Essential)" column. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 412611, member: 13090"] More cores is better when you're running numerous applications at the same time since your PC can "assign" one core to do your photo editing, while another core is busy crunching numbers in your spreadsheet or streaming that movie you pirated. It's like giving your CPU a personal "secretary"; now there's someone to handle the lower level stuff so the other core can work exclusively on editing your photo. Having dual cores at least seems to smooth out the overall computing experience in my opinion; that's a hard thing to define, though, and entirely subjective so just forget I said it. For your purposes four cores would be great (woo hoo!) but don't feel you NEED them, if the right PC comes along one with all the right stuff and suddenly you're all, "Hey, look! Quad Core!!" so much the better, but don't feel like it's a "shit" PC if it's only Core II Duo or what have you. I'd take a faster Core II Duo over a slower Quad Core all other things being equal. Still, nothing wrong with more cores. I'd tell you to put "Quad Core" in the, "Nice to Have (But Not Essential)" column. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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