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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redrobes" data-source="post: 3225719" data-attributes="member: 40793">They tend to state minimum requirements and since all software runs on one core then the requirement is for one core. It might still run better on more cores. You can tell if this would be the case by getting the task manager out (ctrl-alt-del) and looking at the Threads value. Mine is currently reading 311 which is a lot and Im only running firefox and email (+ a shed load of services, background tasks etc). Most of these threads are idle but if you fire up a game and can still see the task managers threads total go up then thats how many threads the game has spawned.Its not easy and has never been easy. The only real way is with a benchmarking tool. For games 3DMark is the daddy. The latest version has been updated to test for multi-core CPUs. You can log into their database and look at the benchmark scores that other people have obtained with their systems and parts listed.If its a new system then the video is likely to be PCIe 16x. Check the number and clock rate of the pixel shader pipelines on the video card too.Well it does depend a bit but the AMD X2's are cheaper but run hotter than the Core Duo 2's. The latter are better, cooler, but more expensive.</blockquote>