First post, by appiah4
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After being content with using a dual core Athlon X2 5000+ between 2005-2008 I moved onto a Phenom X3 8750 in 2009 but I also vaguely remember that the move did not really help much with gaming at all . I then moved on to an Athlon II X4 640 in 2011 and I remember that actually was a worthwhile CPU upgrade and a quad core actually paid off. However, I can't really put my finger on what year it became actually desirable to have a quad core over a dual core. I bet most people will say 2007/2008 due to Q6600 being very popular at the time but I also remember games not really leveraging those cores at all at the time.. If I had to pick a year I'd probably say 2009 as Nehalem i7 quad cores started to become more common? I'm basically asking because I'm putting together a PC to cover 2005-2009 games and I was wondering if I can get away with using a low TDP dual core for games released in 2008-2009.
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