08-18-2008, 04:38 PM
It is not better. Its more expensive 
I bet 99.9% of all gamers wouldnt feel the difference between a Q9650 (4x 3GHz) and a E8400 (2x 3GHz), because no games has a big profit of quads. And maybe 5 have ANY profit of quads, mostly 1-5%.
Quads for gamers are nonsense, because so less games support it. But its usual for graphics design, video encoding, photo-editing and stuff.
Its made for this kind of applications, not for games

I bet 99.9% of all gamers wouldnt feel the difference between a Q9650 (4x 3GHz) and a E8400 (2x 3GHz), because no games has a big profit of quads. And maybe 5 have ANY profit of quads, mostly 1-5%.
Quads for gamers are nonsense, because so less games support it. But its usual for graphics design, video encoding, photo-editing and stuff.
Its made for this kind of applications, not for games