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Originally posted by martinuzz:
<STRONG>This one is not yet dual core, but it's single cpu is an AMD Athlon that runs around 1.3 Mhz. This is faster than a single core of my dual AMD Turion Processor. Since DF does not (yet) use dual core technology, I thought it would run faster on my old PC. Wrong. Quite a bit slower even.</STRONG>
Simple. Just because DF is not threaded doesn't mean that having a dual core computer won't bring benefits. For one thing you've still got all those other applications, including Windows, running in the background. For a single core computer, that core would be shared between DF and all those apps. On a dual core computer, you have an additional core that can be running everything else while one core runs the game.
Also going by the hertz rating when comparing two architectures (Athlon and Turion being separate architecture families) is pointless. My last upgrade, for example, involved going from the Intel Pentium D 805 (Smithfield based on P4's NetBurst architecture) to an Intel Pentium Dual-Core (Allendale based on the Intel Core 2 architecture). The Pentium D 805 was 2.66GHz while the Pentium Dual-Core was 1.6GHz per core. Yet the speed increase per core was about 60%.
[ May 16, 2008: Message edited by: Frobozz ]