A 3.0 dual core would beat out a quad core a 2.4 ghz in many tasks, such as gaming. But when it comes to multitasking, certain encoding/decoding/compressing/unzipping, etc, quad core is better.hacker_xyzzy

I'd agree. It depends on what you plan to do. If you just want to sound cool and be able to say I've got a quad core then get a quad core.