I know this has been discussed before but ...

[NachtPiloten]

I am considering purchasing an AMD X2 6000 dual core for under 70.00. I have a 4000+ San Diego single core now. I am not considering a new MB or other stuff other than RAM. I read a while back that the dual core cpus and CS3 have problems. Could someone explain this once again? Is there an advantage in doing this? I will upgrade from 32 bit to 64 as well.

Thanks!

 

[mongoose]

Well Ted I have a quad core and no problems. There were some old posts on dual core as you said, but no one seems to have posted anything recently and many must have dual/quds now.

 

[rbp71854]

Ted I have been running a dual core AMD about 3 years. Intially there was a problem, but there was a fix released by AMD when the problem was 1st identified. I have heard 3rd hand that Service pack 3 includes the fix so there is no need to grab the amd patch.(?)

 

[Cameljockey]

Windows XP SP3 does indeed have a fix for multi core processors. I run a Core 2 Duo E8500 and have had 0 problems.

CJ

 

[Daiwilletti]

Windows XP SP3 does indeed have a fix for multi core processors. I run a Core 2 Duo E8500 and have had 0 problems.

CJ

Likewise, I'm running a dual core E8200 setup on which CFS3 installed with no patches/fixes required - latest variants of XP (even SP2) handled cfs3 fine.

DW