Oilacct,
The speed that they mentioned on the processor is the OVERALL speed of all the cores. imagine a 2.4 ghz Quad core running on each core, that's a total of 9.6Ghz!!! I advise you read some more about the Quad and dual core technology. It's still a single processor, they only divided it into 4 cores to give a dedicated processor on every application, hence, there will be less lagging if you are doing multiples application simultaneously. If you are not a die-hard overclocker who will push every bit of your processor power and memory to the limit, i wouldn't suggest using a water cooler coz it's very hard to maintain. Get a 120mm heatsink with fan with 2000rpm, a front and rear fan for your casing to circulate the air, i don't think you would encounter any more problem.
It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare, it's because we don't dare that makes things difficult!
Oilacct,
The speed that they mentioned on the processor is the OVERALL speed of all the cores. imagine a 2.4 ghz Quad core running on each core, that's a total of 9.6Ghz!!! I advise you read some more about the Quad and dual core technology. It's still a single processor, they only divided it into 4 cores to give a dedicated processor on every application, hence, there will be less lagging if you are doing multiples application simultaneously. If you are not a die-hard overclocker who will push every bit of your processor power and memory to the limit, i wouldn't suggest using a water cooler coz it's very hard to maintain. Get a 120mm heatsink with fan with 2000rpm, a front and rear fan for your casing to circulate the air, i don't think you would encounter any more problem.
It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare, it's because we don't dare that makes things difficult!