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Originally Posted by SebC
Mafia 2 has a 3.0 GHz dual core minimum requirement, but a 2.5 GHz quad core recommendation. DA:O also recommends quad core. Other games I've heard may use more than 2 cores (I haven't verified these): GTA IV, L4D, L4D2, BFBC2, Supreme Commander, SupComm FA, SupComm 2, Bioshock 2, Crysis, Crysis 2, DiRT 2 (?), CoD:MW2 (?), UT3 (?), Mass Effect (?) ... makes me glad I went for the Q6600 over the E8400.
Aren't you a Mac guy?
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I'm platform agnostic
(although the fruits do outnumber suits at my house, and most of my PC hardware is dedicated to running VMWare)
I don't game a ton on the PC though, other than flight sims, which is why I was asking if many games are benefitting from more than two cores - my general impression was that it was better to go for a faster dual core system for gaming than a quad or better rig. X-Plane and FSX are both notoriously single threaded, although that will be improving with X-Plane 10 apparently.
My last video card was a passively cooled Radeon 4670, which is all I really needed for X-Plane, so I'm a bit out of the loop, hence why I asked.