Dual Core Processing?

Question

ok, this should be a fairly quick and easy question. lets say a game has minimum requirements of, oh, lets say 2.0 Ghz. if i have a dual core at 2 gigs, or lets go even lower, a dual core with 1.6, will the game still run nice and smoothly?

Answer 1

Yes because 2 cores at 1.6 GHz is similar to 1 core at 3.2 GHz

Answer 2

Although the above replier is correct in saying that dual cores are treated as two processors so that 1.6 becomes 3.2, it is not really the case. Since it is two processors, the application itself must be able to utilize both processors at the same time. Just having two cores does not mean that both will immediately work on the same program. Unless your application (in this case the game) is specifically programmed to take advantage of multithreads (breaking up the work over multiple processors) you aren't going to see as much of an increase in performance on your game through the dual core processor if each processor is still below the recommended requirements.

But your processors as a dual core 1.6 probably will be able to handle your game as long as you've got enough RAM and video card capability to offset the possible CPU shortages.

Answer 3

yes it will, dual core is just 2 processors and wen programs are not designed 2 take advantaged of 2 cores both cores will work together.

and the cores not always work together, newer games take advantage of the 2 cores and the 2 cores work separately

for example 1 core can be used 4 textures, and the other 1 can be used 4 shading while the gpu can work on sumthing else like character movement

i rly hate wen ppl just copy other ppls answers u know who im talking 2

Answer 4

Dual core = twice the GHz mentioned (because there are 2 cores)
So dual core 1.6GHz is really 3.2GHz in lay mans terms.