new core 2 duo?

Question

ok pretty soon the the new C2D are coming out the E6850 will be the best at 3.0GHz 1333FSB 4MB cache but will cost around 250-300$ then the intel price drop #2 will hit the other C2D and the Q6600 2.4 1066 4MB cache quad core will be the same price as a E6850 no which one is better 2.4 quad core or 3.0 core 2 and i have done research and found that the q6600 is not a false quad core it is just 2X E6600 so i guess it is not a native quad core but still 4 cores

Answer 1

It really depends on your application. In order to utilize multiple cores (2 or more), the application must be able to simultaneously issue multiple threads that can be process by different CPU. So from a single apps point of view, if it can utilize multiple cores (for example, the upcoming Alan Wake that claims to utilize 4 cores) that game will run faster on the quad core, despite its slower speed compare to the 2 core with higher frequency.

But if say, older games that doesn't utilize multiple core, than you might find that apps actually runs better on the dual core as the dual core, each core is operating at a higher frequency.

And then there's your own usage. If you often run multiple CPU intensive application at once, the quadcore will be much better for you, for example if you're encoding video, burning a DVD and using Photoshop all at once, they'll run smoothly as theres enough CPU to handle the different task and they do not have to wait for each other...

Quadcore is better at multitasking.