AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ Review

AMD Review takes a look at one of the latest offerings from AMD, the Athlon64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ processor:

So should you buy the new dual core CPUs now? Well it depends on what you need to do with it. The Dual core CPUs Perform much better then the FX-55 on CPU intensive tasks, which would be things like DVD encoding, and Photoshop, however they perform about the same in games. However, dual core is the future, so as programs are written to fully take advantage of the second core you will see dual cores getting much better scores then single core CPUs.