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does anyone have a quad core cpu? i just upgraded my dual core cpu to a quad core and my system is much snappier. I like to mutitask a lot and what i was doing was not enough for dual core i guess.

<--- Has a quad core and isn't afraid to use it!

I've been using one since 2009, a Phenom, I believe. I haven't been so overwhelmed. The one I have came with Vista so that did not help. I suppose it matters what you are doing. I am a pretty tame (lame?) user and there has been no great advantage to me. AG

do you see any real "big" differences bewteen intel and AMD? i upgraded to a A8-3850 and to be honest i cant see a speed difference bewteen this quad core CPU and my sisters quad core cpu(i7)

I think that having lots of RAM and Windows 7 (Not Vista) is more important than whether you have a dual/quad core--I have a dual core with 6GB RAM that still runs just fine after a couple of years of use.

Yes, and the Android simulator is still slow!

I have a Core i7 which has 4 physical cores but due to hyperthreading shows up as 8 cores inside of Windows. I've had this since summer of 2009 - before that my previous PC was an AMD x64 dual core. I don't notice a lot of difference (in most situations) between the eight / four core and the dual core, but also I am doing things now that I never attempted with the dual core, such as streaming video to a couple of other computers via Plex Media Server while playing Team Fotress 2, etc. I never lack for speed doing any of this on the i7.

ahh i remember hyperthreading in my old Pentium 4, i honestly think its just a marketing gimmick.

and my professor always says more ram is key

i have 8GB ram and only use 3GB usually, but the key thing here is the more ram you have the more disk cache is built so less disk access

Agree, more RAM in an O/S like Windows always helps. I have 9GB and don't really hit any memory issues like I do at work where I only have 4GB and often have to have a lot of stuff open at once like Excel, Word, 2-3 instances of Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, Oracle SQL Developer etc.

In any case I haven't really had a chance to use a computer with an SSD yet, but I have to think that having the paging file on an SSD would be a BIG help, even for machines with not so much RAM.

AMD processors have larger cycles and Intel has more cycles per second. It usually goes like that and it swaps between the two companies over time while the tech develops.

I'm running an 8 core amd set up, over clocked to 5.12 ghz per core, water cooled 64 gb ddr5... but I also work with video for a living as an editor, so i NEED the power.

As stated, it depends on usage. A large quantity of RAM usually provides a smoother experience.

My A6-5400K dual core HTPC feels equally as snappy as my FX 8350 octo core at 4.8 GHz for general usage.
They both have a sufficient amount of RAM (8 & 16 GB both @ 2133 CL9) and solid state drives.

If you really want a huge seat-of-the-pants boost, I'd completely recommend a SSD.

agreed, more ram equals more disk cache. and to be honest i feel i got a bigger performance boost upgrading my ram to 8GB then upgrading my dual core CPU to Quad Core. AMD A83850 =D

I have a hyper-threaded quad-core (8-CPU) laptop; it comes in really handy because I run Linux From Scratch and compile a lot of my own software from source. I also like to play with virtual machines.

Yup. Save the ram money and just get an ssd. Why bother with disk cache when the entire disk will read as fast as ram?

Why? because the current OS's are not written and the hard ware is not designed to do that... even with a large SSD as your primary HDD, you're still going to have some delay.