Article: "Dual Core And The Future of Gaming"

[jjcom]

Intel and AMD's introductions of dual-core processors may have ushered in a new age of computing, but so far, these new architectures have done little to radically change the PC gaming experience. As our tests showed in the Pentium D 840 dual core processor works only as fast as the single-core Pentium Extreme Edition counterpart with an equal clock speed. A Pentium Extreme Edition with a faster clock speed thus runs faster than the dual core Pentium D.
http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20050708/index.html

[Jeff]

Isn't all that obvious though? We've had dual processor systems for years and years and unless software is written to utilize such an architecture then there just isn't any benefit. That's obvious isn't it? ;)

[krille]

Isn't all that obvious though? We've had dual processor systems for years and years and unless software is written to utilize such an architecture then there just isn't any benefit. That's obvious isn't it? ;)
You're forgetting, that's Tom's hardware.