PC gurus, speak to me

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Not sure if I understand you correctly, or you understand me correctly. I am talking about software that does not make use of the second core, so that the dual core is running only in "mono": the sim does not benefit fro the second core. Or do I understand that wrong? At least FS9 is confirmed to not make any use of dual core's second processor.

I understood you correctly, and as I said even in single threaded performance (that means that the program runs on only 1 core) the performance of the c2d cpu will be much much faster than what is achievable with even the highest end of the p4 (p4 extreme editions 3.7Ghz...)