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Originally Posted by FlamingStuffedTiger
Some people might disagree with me here, but I would consider downgrading the processor if gaming is the most resource intensive thing you will be doing. At present, most games I know of don't make use of more than two cores on the processor anyways. Might be worthwhile downgrading to an i3 or a dual core version of the i5. It's hard to say tho because games could always be made to take advantage of more cores in the future. Just something to think about.
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A buddy of mine who has 8 cores in his box (a Mac) was watching specifically for how the load was disbursed while playing SC2 and said he saw all the cores being utilized fairly equally. He had thought the same thing as you about 2 cores, but that isn't what he saw. Although he did say he thought his system was constrained by the CPU so that may have muddies his results.
I have a quad core system but haven't picked up SC2 yet, so I haven't checked for myself.
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