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Quad vs. Dual Core. Which one to get? God I love this one. It really depends on what you are going to do on the system, what operating system you are going to run, and what your plans are for how long you are going to keep what you buy.
Here's the way I look at it:
If you are going to stick with XP for a year more, don't go quad. From my experience Quads actually run "overall" worse on XP unless it's XP x64. So, if you are going to stick with XP for a while longer I'd save your money, buy a Core 2, and buy a Quad when you do switch to Vista later on.
If you are going to be buying Vista, buy a Quad. Vista is better able to utilize the extra cores, and it does so more efficiently than XP does. Plus, now that Vista is a more stable operating system, and more and more games are coming out that use more and more cores (such as UT3 and Supreme Commander), it makes more sense to go Quad. If you can't afford it then at the very least build your system with being able to upgrade to a Quad core processor in mind.
BTW, Robert, you didn't mention what OS you were planning on getting.
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