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[Potter]

i just saw a tv comercial of a quadcore pc, but it thought they were to hard to handle for a pc, can any1 plz give an explanation of this? kinda cool though would love to have that pc, must be sweet to play with,,,

curerofthought

[kkelly]

I can't make out exactly what you question is. Are you referring to the issue of cooling a quadcore processor?
Both AMD and Intel are producing quad core processors. For mainstream PC's, they are the Intel Core 2 Quad and the AMD Quad-Core Opteron. Both consume less power and produce less heat per core than previous processors.
Gaming on these systems is faster, but most games are not progammed with a multi-core processor in mind, so the speed-boost isn't proportional to the number of cores. Also, a lot of a games overhead is in the GPU, not the CPU. It will probably take a year or two before programmers begin to produce games that can fully take advantage of the extra cores.
I know the soon-to-be-released game Crysis will be one of the first.