so i was looking at the buying guide for hardware requirements and noticed that your budget cpu has the possibility to unlock 2 extra cores making it a quad.
How important is a quad for running the games smoothly? I'm asking because i'm building a htpc and had chosen a pentium dual e6500 (2.9 ghz) and this cpu outperforms the AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition at factory speeds and in not multi threaded tasks. And it's cheaper and i already had my specs chosen and now i need to think this over...
thx
How important is a quad for running the games smoothly? I'm asking because i'm building a htpc and had chosen a pentium dual e6500 (2.9 ghz) and this cpu outperforms the AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition at factory speeds and in not multi threaded tasks. And it's cheaper and i already had my specs chosen and now i need to think this over...
thx