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Originally Posted by Harkoliar
I have a decent working "close to a 5 year old " computer. 
ITs about time for an upgrade or actually buying a new spanking computer.
I just have a quick question to you guys who are familiar with quadcore technology. I am planning to buy Phenom AMD quadcore. I am wondering would WinVista support or fully utilize all 4 cores? It would be a great waste if it didnt.
edit: also, would it be a 32 or 64bit? |
It's unlikely that a 5 year old MB will take a quad-core chip, so your option is really to get a new CP.
Are you a gamer? If so, here is what you are looking at...a machine with,
> 250GB HD(or thereabouts)
> 4GB RAM (Vista will run noticeably slow unless you have
4GB)
> Quadcore chip of some variety
> Windows Vista 64bit(expensive!)
(a digression here. If you go with 64bit OS then be
prepared for a lot of software to NOT work with it)
> DirectX 10 compatible video card
All of the above will set you back some bucks. Also, when buying the multi-core chip, try to get as good a single core speed as you can, because if the application you are currently running doesn't take advantage of the multi-cores,,,,then it will run at the speed of a single core.
Hope this helps