ReggieB Inactive Alumni. The thing about dual core is the ability to do two things at once. So doing one task, both CPUs will give very similar performances. Where you will notice it is during occasions where the CPU is busy carrying out a task, other tasks won't be impacted as greatly with a dual core.
1. Windows 8, I'd say. But the 32-bit variant. They made great progress in bringing down memory and CPU usage (most likely because they want to run well on tablets). A side effect of that is that Windows 8 is really snappy, even on old hardware with little RAM. Share. Poor average bench The Intel Core2 Duo E7400 averaged 61.6% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.