yay, then i can pay even more money for even less performance.

AMD dual core has been a big dissappointment for me. sure, a few apps optimized for dual core get a boost, but the majority dont, and they are absolutely useless for gaming. even after half a dozen annoying fixes, hacks, workarounds and even setting the affinity to a single processor (which defeats the purpose of having a dual core CPU) half my games stutter as if i were running them on a pentium II. bah.