Shalafi
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My major reason for sitting out the i-cores and to an extent more powerful AMD quad core processors and sticking with my dual core intel chip on my 2 year old laptop is simply that there just aren't games out there that I play (let me emphasize that) that require a quad core processor.
I know there are games out there that can really crank a system hard, but they just aren't games I play, so I saw no value in upgrading. It's looking like 2011 and to an extent from what we know, 2012 will be some truly great years of PC gaming with some more relevant to me titles that I'll be interested in, especially the new Elder Scrolls game.
When Oblivion came out I upgraded, it's only fitting that at some point in 2011 or early 2012 depending on what's going on in the hardware world at that point in time, that I see fit to finally make the leap.
Anyway, the larger point in what I'm saying is that if you sat out for reasons like mine, you simply saw no value in upgrading untill you felt like you absolutely had to or wanted to.
It might turn out that those of you who like me, still use dual cores will end up having skipped quad cores completely and moved on to six core processors in the next year or 2.
Sometimes the decision about whether to upgrade or not boils down not to whether or not you can afford it or whether you can just blow a nice chunk of change on it or not, but to whether it really represents a true upgrade in the sense that you will see a dramatic difference in your everyday computing environment and that tends to tilt towards how you feel about gaming and what particular games you play.
I know there are games out there that can really crank a system hard, but they just aren't games I play, so I saw no value in upgrading. It's looking like 2011 and to an extent from what we know, 2012 will be some truly great years of PC gaming with some more relevant to me titles that I'll be interested in, especially the new Elder Scrolls game.
When Oblivion came out I upgraded, it's only fitting that at some point in 2011 or early 2012 depending on what's going on in the hardware world at that point in time, that I see fit to finally make the leap.
Anyway, the larger point in what I'm saying is that if you sat out for reasons like mine, you simply saw no value in upgrading untill you felt like you absolutely had to or wanted to.
It might turn out that those of you who like me, still use dual cores will end up having skipped quad cores completely and moved on to six core processors in the next year or 2.
Sometimes the decision about whether to upgrade or not boils down not to whether or not you can afford it or whether you can just blow a nice chunk of change on it or not, but to whether it really represents a true upgrade in the sense that you will see a dramatic difference in your everyday computing environment and that tends to tilt towards how you feel about gaming and what particular games you play.