Unbeliveable perfomance boost with dual core

[danielj]

I receive my new Athlon64 X2 3800 and I was astonished to find that the perfomance really improves.In Mars2,I get now around 28-29 fps;when I had the Athlon64 3000,the frame rate was around 17-19 fps.This means that a single core with a 8600 GTS or a dual core with 7600 GT has similar results!

[symaski62]

I receive my new Athlon64 X2 3800 and I was astonished to find that the perfomance really improves.In Mars2,I get now around 28-29 fps;when I had the Athlon64 3000,the frame rate was around 17-19 fps.This means that a single core with a 8600 GTS or a dual core with 7600 GT has similar results!

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[danielj]

No,it was my mistake.The perfomance didn??t improve even a bit.I get horrendous frame rate around 16 fps.It??s an absurd;I buy a dual core processor for ALMOST NOTHING:
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Mars2 DEMANDS a Geforce 8600 or better,and I DON??T HAVE MONEY TO BUY ONE ANYMORE.I??m very sad...

[danielj]

I gave a new chance to the Dual Core Optimizer and in fact,there is a SLIGHT improvement in frame rate.With this AMD utility,the frame rate goes from 15-16 fps to 21-22 fps.However,compared to the previous Athlon 64 3000,that had already have 17-19 fps,the improvement in perfomance is much smaller...
Look:
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On the other hand,I didn??t need to close Celestia when navigating in internet.I was with 2 windows opened and Celestia was showing either Uranus or Neptune running at 1000X speed and apparently no slowdown or lockdown