Dual-Core CPU Buyer’s Guide
Single-core CPUs are no longer sufficient. The new thing is dual-core all the way. If you are considering buying a dual-core processor, there’s a buying guide at InformationWeek
If you’ve been sitting on the fence trying to decide whether to jump into the dual-core market, dither no more. Not only have the prices of dual-core processors come way down in the past year, but performance has been kicked up several notches. In May, AMD refreshed the high end of its Athlon line, and in July Intel introduced its long-awaited Core 2 Duo (formerly codenamed Conroe) chips — the first desktop processors in its new “Core” microarchitecture.
A small fly in the ointment is tight supply. Unless you are a big purchaser, you may have to wait quite a while to get one of the new Intel chips.
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