MG, Rival, and others - what gives?

[winbig]

I have a dual core CPU under XP, and it's like night and day compared to my old (3500+) single core system. I do a lot of video editing/converting, and I can comfortably convert video at 115+ FPS and it won't lag the system at all, even if I pump it up to real-time processing.

There's no way I could do that with a single core machine..

[vinylweatherman]

I have a dual core CPU under XP, and it's like night and day compared to my old (3500+) single core system. I do a lot of video editing/converting, and I can comfortably convert video at 115+ FPS and it won't lag the system at all, even if I pump it up to real-time processing.

There's no way I could do that with a single core machine..

I have never pushed mine to this limit. I have, however, managed to get SIX MGS casinos to run simultaneously, and this tells me one thing, and that is that when ONE MGS casino running solo starts lagging, it is NOT MY PC!!!

I went for the fastest dual core processor available at the time, although by now this will have been superceded. I thought it best to go down this route, and upgrade other things later. Upgrading the processor at a later date seemed to be more trouble than simply plugging in new peripherals.