I am in the process of deciding on hardware for two systems at the moment; one for me and one for my brother. My problem is that I can't decide whether to get an Athlon 64 X2 or just a single core Athlon 64. The cpu budgets for both systems are about £150 so the choice is between the X2 4200+ and the 4000+ (San Diego).
I use my system for mp3 encoding, video encoding and general application use (with occasional gaming). My brother uses his system almost entirely for gaming (mainly games based on the Valve Source Engine (Half Life 2)).
The reason i'm confused is that the single cores appear to outperform the dual cores in almost all applications.
Which do you think would be better for each system?
thanks
rocktorrentz
I use my system for mp3 encoding, video encoding and general application use (with occasional gaming). My brother uses his system almost entirely for gaming (mainly games based on the Valve Source Engine (Half Life 2)).
The reason i'm confused is that the single cores appear to outperform the dual cores in almost all applications.
Which do you think would be better for each system?
thanks
rocktorrentz