[Luke21]

New to this forum

Looking to buy a custom built gaming rig just need some advice is it worth getting a quad core or is duo core just has good ?

Also is it worth getting 2 graphics cards is it worth the extra cost

Heres some builds im looking at

Quad Core one
Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad Skt 775 SLI Gaming Base Unit
Case - Aspire X-Cruiser Silver
Case PSU - 850w Antec Truepower Quattro
Motherboard Asus Striker Extreme SLI
Memory - 4gb DDR2 800 Memory (2x2gb)
Hard Drive 1 - 500gb SATA2 Hard Drive
Hard Drive 2 - 250gb SATA2 Hard Drive
Optical Drive 1 - 16x LG Dual Layer DVDRW Drive
Floppy - Multi Format Card Reader (Black)
Graphics - Dual 512mb Nvidia GeForce 8800GT (SLI)
PCI Slot 1 - CREATIVE X-FI XTREME AUDIO 7.1
PCI Slot 2 - 54mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card
Keyboard & Mouse - Genius Cordless Keyboard/Mouse
Operating System - Windows XP PRO SP2
Monitor - 22" Silver Widescreen TFT
Warranty - 12 Months Collect & Return Warranty

Thats £1,463.45

Or this duo core one

Intel E6850 Core 2 Duo Skt 775 SLI Gaming Base Unit
Case - Aspire X-Cruiser Silver
Case PSU - 850w Antec Truepower Quattro
Motherboard Asus Striker Extreme SLI
Memory - 4gb DDR2 800 Memory (2x2gb)
Hard Drive 1 - 500gb SATA2 Hard Drive
Hard Drive 2 - 250gb SATA2 Hard Drive
Optical Drive 1 - 16x LG Dual Layer DVDRW Drive
Floppy - Multi Format Card Reader (Black)
Graphics - Dual 512mb Nvidia GeForce 8800GT (SLI)
PCI Slot 1 - CREATIVE X-FI XTREME AUDIO 7.1
PCI Slot 2 - 54mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card
Keyboard & Mouse - Genius Cordless Keyboard/Mouse
Operating System - Windows XP PRO SP2
Monitor - 22" Silver Widescreen TFT
Warranty - 12 Months Collect & Return Warranty

Thats £1,465.86 so not much in it

Or i can get a liquid cooled one which has been overclocked to 3.6 ghz but i can only get a 8800 gtx with that one for about the same price

Any advice will help just want to know which one will be the best for gaming

Last thing would vista be better to have than xp pro ?

Thanks

[Carbon]

Someone has too much money! :p

Quad core isn't worth it right now or for the perceivable future. Don't worry about it.
4GB won't give you any benefit if you're running x32 version of Windows.

SLI'd 8800GTs are probably a good investment at this point.

[banjo7]

The Quad is much better than the Core 2 Duo.

[Carbon]

Originally Posted by banjo7

The Quad is much better than the Core 2 Duo.

Do you have any benchmarks to prove it? Every single real-world test shows that the Quad is at or below the performance of a Duo in everything except CAD/modeling programs that can handle it. The only possible reason someone would buy it is that or they like to play around with setting affinities.