dual core or quad core?

i prefer AMD since i am using one.I use AMD because --comparatively cheap --high performance --high stabilty --greater support for gaming i recommned AMD FX 64 bit computing.It has many advantage over intel pentium 4 processors.but i heard that intel pentium duo core2 is much better than other precedures and a like performance with AMD 64.so i f you are going to buy a new computer either you go for AMD FX 64 or Pentium 4 Duo core 2. thank you!

1 Gigabyte of RAM rather...

I have an AMD 2x64 ... does the job so far :)

Well.Of course Quad-Core,thought now there is almost 0 the number of aplication optimized for multi-core processors. There is no diference at all between dual-core and quad-core in some aplications,but in few ( the optimized ) quad-core is 2x / 3x faster than the fastest dual-core. If you have the cash go for Dual Core QX 6700

Since I do not play games or do graphics a Dual Core processor would be more than enough coupled with 1MB of RAM fantastic!!!