Processors, 2 or 4?Post Date: 2008-02-28 |
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Lane 
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 Topic: Processors, 2 or 4?Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 11:32pm |
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How much of a benfit would i get from going from this:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz (1333MHz Front Side Bus) (6MB Cache)
to this:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz (1066MHz FSB) (8MB Cache)
Are there many games and applications that can utilize the quad better than a duo?
And please, "A whole bunch!" dosn't really help me.
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skyR
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Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 11:34pm |
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Most games only use two fully. If you alt tab a lot or multi task, a quad is better.
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Lane
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Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 11:44pm |
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So for only $44 more the quad would be the way to go I'm guessing.
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cronedog
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Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 11:58pm |
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It is more a matter of how forward looking you are. If you are concerned with gaming, there are almost no games that benefit from 4 cores. Also consider that the cpu isn't usually the bottleneck in a gaming rig (more money into the gpu would be better).
By the time everything is efficiently multithreaded, the current generation of hardware will be obsolete, and we may be up to 6 or 8 cores. The real advantage of running the quad core is similar to running 2 cores early on. What if you want to run 2 multithreaded applications? For example, if the virus scan takes 2 cores, and the game takes 2 cores, the quad would let you do both at once without performance loss. |
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Bill the Cat
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Posted: 29 Feb 2008 at 9:07am |
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Chocolate or Vanilla, Vista or XP, dual core or quad? Personally, I think you're better off with a significantly faster dual core CPU...., for now. Many others would disagree. The truth is both are fast enough.
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SunfighterLC
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Posted: 29 Feb 2008 at 1:57pm |
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make sure to read their note on them being out of 8400s till late march if thats the CPU you want =P.
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Glenn-HI
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Posted: 29 Feb 2008 at 9:57pm |
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I just ordered my computer, only to find out afterwards that they were out of the E8400.
 Decided on getting the E8200 and overclocking it to E8400 specs and when the E8400 comes in swapping it out.
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Posted: 01 Mar 2008 at 2:55pm |
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Does Digital Storm plan on offering the QX9770 anytime soon?
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Alex
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Posted: 01 Mar 2008 at 4:37pm |
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Yes, once there is good quantity from distribution we will. ETA within a month.
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Jeff
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Posted: 03 Mar 2008 at 11:06pm |
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Right now more Mhz are more useful in gaming than more cores.
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