Originally Posted by mazex (Post 288955)

Sorry to break the Core 2 Duo spell for you, had one before that my 8 year old has now and I played CoD on it (and it ran really good on that one too after the patches - but not near my new CPU).

Look in this thread:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=22448

The conclusion is that my old rig (E8500@3.3 so identical to your CPU) with my new GTX580 card had half the FPS in CoD compared to my new i7 2600k rig with the same graphics card... So the CPU matters very much in CoD and the Core 2 Duos are really not enough.

But you are right that the the late Core 2 Duos where great for gaming compared to the Core 2 Quads in many cases, but they don't stand up against the new Sandy Bridges that are easily overclocked to insane speeds. Mine runs fine at 5.0Ghz on air but I run a "cool" overclock at 4.5 to not strain it.