What is better

[Mixer85]

What is better athlon 64 x2 4800 + or a athlon 64fx 57 is the duals better then the originals

 

[Didou]

It depends on the type of application you intend to use on it. Media encoding or heavy multi-tasking (think gaming with DVD encoding in the background) will work better on the dual-core while most games will work better on the FX-57.

Certain games are starting to have multi-threaded code allowing them to use the 2nd core available on dual-core CPUs but those games are the exception not the general rule.