Do you want i7 or Core 2 Duo is good enough for your computer?

i7 is even more better than Core 2 Duo I am planning to replaced my Core2 soon. For me if I have enough money I'll be getting two sets I feel my Core 2 now is becoming slower everytime I am using. Though, I reformat and install the OS same thing happens its only fast if no program loaded after installing everything the speed is slowing.

I have a core duo processor for my laptop. Came pre-installed. For the little I actually use it for. ex online chatting, message boards, e-mail, and a little bit of word prossing. This works fine.

I think that it all depends on how you want to use your system. I have a dual core processor in my system and this is more than adequate for my needs. However, if you are seriously interested in gaming and things like that then it certainly pays to go for the highest spec processor possible. I think that dual core is perfectly acceptable now and I don't think anyone goes for a single processor anymore. Andrew

Core 2 Duo. If necessity really arises, Core 2 Quad. Now, I'm surely not saying that the i7 is a bad idea because, when you look at it regardless of angle: It's good! But you pay for the good! i7s have good cache, good core speeds, you can do some OCing, support Hyper-Threading and all that shizzle so they're worth the buck. Question is however: Do you need all those treats and traits? My most recent machine has for brain a E5300; if you're off it's a Dual Core running at 2.6GHz per core, with 2MB cache. It suffices my needs because when it comes to games the VGA will back that up and when it comes to other applications it also does fairly well; why? Well, if an application is multi-threaded then that means it'll have a total processing power of 5.2GHz and that's a lot. Suuuure, you'd have 10GHz on the other computer, but unless you're doing super intensive 3D processing or something. If the applications are single-threaded though, you're as bad with the Dual Core as with the i7, because only the speed of one core will matter. That's the fun part! The E5300 is known to be easily overclocked to 3.6GHz per core and some people brought it up to 4GHz. These are stable speeds with only a slight voltage increase and low enough temperatures. You can get easily a machine with 7.2~8GHz processing power. Do you really need much more? And this was far cheaper than the i7. Speaking of being cheaper than the i7, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad use LGA775 currently, which means they're all pretty compatible between themselves and lots of motherboards on the market including very cheap ones, whereas the i7 uses a new socket that only specific boards have and there's not that many of the low-price tier as one could like, so another point that brought me to the Core 2 Duo. My 2cents (Which I might take back with this post!)

well i suggest using core2duo my friend.it has more than enough performance and power to run any programs.but when talking about programs to be run,if it also includes his graphics games then i suggest that yo also install a good nvidia graphics video card as well.and if you do that i guarantee you that the core2duo will be more than enough for your needs.

I would not get i7 or Core 2 Duo. You should get Core 2 Quad Core it is in the middle of i7 and Core 2 Duo. It is a good choice for a gaming computer or just an all around good computer. Hope this helped. Happy MyLotting!