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| Okay ONE LAST QUESTION! would the Q6600 be faster and give better performance(without Overclock) than the E8400(without overclock) for games like crysis, spore, age of empires 3, and Simcity 4 and societies?
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| For Crysis, yes. For others, I'm not sure. You could try a quick "multithreading [game]", and chances are, if there's not a number of sites documenting multithread-ability of the games, it has support.
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| Karakawe wrote: | | For Crysis, yes. For others, I'm not sure. You could try a quick "multithreading [game]", and chances are, if there's not a number of sites documenting multithread-ability of the games, it has support. |
what is multihthreading and is it a big deal?
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Basically, support for more than two cores. Games like GTA IV and Crysis have support for it, and that's why they scale over quad core CPUs.
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| If you run a game that uses 2 threads on a quad-core, you will only utilize 50% of the quad-core's power. Games like Crysis, GTA IV, Supreme Commander, Lost Planet, and most Source games support multi-threading.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Karakawe wrote: | | Basically, support for more than two cores. Games like GTA IV and Crysis have support for it, and that's why they scale over quad core CPUs. |
Aren't those like the only games atm?
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| korby wrote: | | Karakawe wrote: | | Basically, support for more than two cores. Games like GTA IV and Crysis have support for it, and that's why they scale over quad core CPUs. |
Aren't those like the only games atm? |
What about Spore and Last Planet?
I think that the Q6600 would give better performance.
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Karakawe
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| xMurtaghx wrote: | | korby wrote: | | Karakawe wrote: | | Basically, support for more than two cores. Games like GTA IV and Crysis have support for it, and that's why they scale over quad core CPUs. |
Aren't those like the only games atm? |
What about Spore and Last Planet?
I think that the Q6600 would give better performance. |
Have a source?
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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multi threading games are more of the games coming out in the future
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| well what is the best proccesor for gaming that is cheap(NO EXTREME'S OR I7'S AMD IS OKAY)
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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A system is not only for games...
HD encoding, video, imaging editing and so one will take advantage of quads.
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Karakawe
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| kls85 wrote: | A system is not only for games...
HD encoding, video, imaging editing and so one will take advantage of quads. |
x264 <3
Luckily, lots of image editing now is more widely hardware accelerated by the GPU.
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| xMurtaghx wrote: | | korby wrote: | | Karakawe wrote: | | Basically, support for more than two cores. Games like GTA IV and Crysis have support for it, and that's why they scale over quad core CPUs. |
Aren't those like the only games atm? |
What about Spore and Last Planet?
I think that the Q6600 would give better performance. |
Not a credible post. Spore and Last Planet both only utilize two threads.
It'd probably just get an E8400 if you aren't going to be doing a ton of CPU intensive things at once. Its a good proc.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Blank wrote: | | xMurtaghx wrote: | | korby wrote: | | Karakawe wrote: | | Basically, support for more than two cores. Games like GTA IV and Crysis have support for it, and that's why they scale over quad core CPUs. |
Aren't those like the only games atm? |
What about Spore and Last Planet?
I think that the Q6600 would give better performance. |
Not a credible post. Spore and Last Planet both only utilize two threads.
It'd probably just get an E8400 if you aren't going to be doing a ton of CPU intensive things at once. Its a good proc. |
well ill probably be burning alot of hd and possible bluray movies to disc cause my parents just got a blu ray projector in the basement and they dont wanna spend money on movies so does that count, and i dont want to sound like an asshole but i believe the game is called lost planet.
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Karakawe
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I know, blu-ray burning isn't that CPU-reliant, it has more to do with the burner.
Correct me, though. I don't own one myself.
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