Tech (game) fight! (curently: gaming dual core or single core)

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Welcome to (game) tech fights! In this thread we will pick our sides and bicker about insignificant technical opinions (on games). There will also be a poll for people who don't know enogh to post with out looking stupid but still want to state an opinion. The topic of the fight will change once we have a winer or a more interesting topic. Please state your side at the start of your post and try not to flip flop your opinion part way through.

Edit: I put this in the wrong section so this is now game oreiented tech fights.

The current contestants are single core processors VS dual core (and if you really care quad core) in relation to gaming oriented computers. To get this ball rolling I'll give a point or two for each sides.

Dual core:
-has twice the cores of a single core
-better multi tasking
-while inferior on games with out multi threading it is predicted (by the people making the games mind you) that all games coming out in the near future will start to move from single core to multi core systems

Single core:
-works better with most games already released
-older, more tested technology
-costs less

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Quad core

-Not much more expensive than a Dual Core (you can't really buy a single core any more? lol?)
-Games are starting to use not only 2 cores, but 3 or 4. (Fallout 3 uses up to 3 cores, SupCom can use all 4).
-Multi-media applications have been using quad cores for years.
-Tech is just as stable as existing dual core CPUs as it is just 2 chips on 1 die.

There is no reason to choose a single core processor, Dual cores are cheap, widely available and work great. Quads are even more useful if you can afford the extra $20 for one.