(03-17-2014, 05:13 AM)QuentinX5 Wrote: The "high-end" retailer one out currently, the FX-8350, for instance, has a "processing power" of 33.6 GHz, because 8 cores * 4.0 GHz
No it doesn't. Even games that use 4-cores (the few, I don't think any game uses over 4 at this point) don't use it like that at all. Dolphin is a single-core application and only uses 3 cores to emulate the GC's 3 microprocessors. I contemplated getting that (or similar) AMD cpu a while ago and people here were pretty insisting that it was far inferior to a high-end i3/5/7. It's cheaper for a reason, why would 8 cores @ 4.0 be cheaper than 4 cores @ 3.4?