Only the default (TGN Light) theme for now. Dark them is also coming back soon. Then CSN. Then Wrestlin' Nation. A lot of WIP stuff right now. There are a couple of things still not working either. Sorry.
Hmm, the 3800+ X2 is 2 ghz, and the 3800+ is 2.4 ghz i believe. Dual Core is for multi tasking and office work, it's still great in game, but a 3800+ X2 is only as good as a 3200+ in game. It's their new Intel beater, Intel used to do better in multi tasking and office work, but now, they're only better in benchmarks. Intel Dual Core processors arn't too good either.
Games will eventually take advantage of Dual Core. For example FEAR will support Dual Core. In which case Dual Cores are gonna be ownage. Also once graphic drivers will start using multi-threading, the performance will increase. X2s are better for the long run, single core is better for the Short-Run. Plus from what I heard, a 3800 X2 will OC much better than a 3800 64.
John carmack said dual core games will be available but wont hold any significant performance increase. You wont see serious effects with dual core for quite a number of years.
Single core is so much easier for game developers to code for and will be still used mainstream for many years to come. Single core is for games dual core isnt..
Dual Core now doesnt make sense yet. Windows Vista is bound to take advantage of it, as well other games later next year. It won't help much now, maybe in multitasking. If you truely want Dual Core and you got an AMD Athlon 64 already, wait until next year for when AMD releases stuff on M2 socket - improved dual core, brand new memory intergrator thingy (forgot that name), DDR2 support...yeah.
Did anyone not hear how difficult it is to code a multi-threaded game? HL2 explore this option and said screw it, cause it would jackup development time by alot. Some games will support it yes, but its not expected to be mainstream until like 2-3 years later.
I say go with the dual core. I don't feel that they are all that overpriced and they give you great performance. I mean technically single cores are better but in most cases the realistic average FPS diference is only 5fps at most. You will most likely be able to OC your X2 quite well and give you great performance.
Look at the FPS diference between single core and dual core:
Go find other benchamrks, you'll see the diference is very small. Plus you can't design a game to not go over 80fps... it's using Unreal engine.. so no.
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