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Old 12-15-09, 07:38 PM   #13
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If it's for gaming I'd say go for the dual-core. A lot of load get's put on a single core; 1.6GHz might be a bit light.

That said, games are becoming more efficiently multithreaded.

That Radeon should prove to be a bit faster as the 230M as well... I think.
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Originally Posted by goldorak View Post
To really see any gains from going 64 bit you have got to use at a minimum 8 GB and not 4 GB as commonly believed.
This is to offset the larger memory footprint 64 bit programs have (because of 64 bit instructions that is 8 bytes vs 4 bytes for 32 bit programs).
Larger footprint yes, but not double. Shouldn't be, at least.
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