GTA IV - Quad or Core i7 needed!

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You and your FSB issue again. Is that why GTA 4 runs much better on a C2Q with its FSB than Phenom?

Comparing Phenom and C2Q using GTA and other games you will se that phenom handles GTA very well. C2Q has higher Hz and bigger cache so even if cache coherency is bad it gains on other areas.

GTA isn't the last game that will run bad on Core 2, the market is shifting so I think ther will be more facts about this issue for games in the future. It is a lot easier to create threaded applications if you don't need to allocate separate memory pools for each thread to get good scaling