2.2Ghz Processor required for Lost Coast?

[littlewing]

Is it just a mistake on the part of Valve for stating that a 2.2ghz processor is required when we all know that a 1.8ghz AMD processor is just as fast if not faster than a 3.0ghz P4?

Is it a mistake or do they really want a 3500+ AMD 64?

Will my processor be alright?

 

[suicidalpigeon]

yes. amd and intel have different technology. so you might as well go buy the model name, not it's actual ghz.

 

[EightySix Four]

You will be fine, my Pentium M 2.0ghz runs it good too 😛

 

[Unkno]

why don't you overclock your cpu, even the stock cooler would be fine for moderate overclocks....

 

[Crescent13]

an AMD 2.0GHZ is about equal to an Intel 3.6 ghz. You're fine.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
an AMD 2.0GHZ is about equal to an Intel 3.6 ghz. You're fine.

The AMD isn't quite that good.

 

[Yanagi]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
an AMD 2.0GHZ is about equal to an Intel 3.6 ghz. You're fine.

Exagerating a bit arent we? However it might as fast as that under certain conditions. But not overall.

 

[darkswordsman17]

For gaming a 3000+ A64 should be about equal to a 3.6Ghz P4. We're not talking about other things, just how well it would run this game.

 

[imported_rod]

Originally posted by: Yanagi

Originally posted by: Crescent13
an AMD 2.0GHZ is about equal to an Intel 3.6 ghz. You're fine.

Exagerating a bit arent we? However it might as fast as that under certain conditions. But not overall.

As a general rule, Athlon 64's are 50% faster than a P4 with the same clock speed. So a 2GHz Athlon64 is as fast as a 3GHz Pentium4.

It's basically because a p4 executes 6 instructions/cycle, while and AMD64 executes 9 instructions/cycle.

RoD

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
an AMD 2.0GHZ is about equal to an Intel 3.6 ghz. You're fine.

With games at least.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: rod

Originally posted by: Yanagi

Originally posted by: Crescent13
an AMD 2.0GHZ is about equal to an Intel 3.6 ghz. You're fine.

Exagerating a bit arent we? However it might as fast as that under certain conditions. But not overall.

As a general rule, Athlon 64's are 50% faster than a P4 with the same clock speed. So a 2GHz Athlon64 is as fast as a 3GHz Pentium4.

It's basically because a p4 executes 6 instructions/cycle, while and AMD64 executes 9 instructions/cycle.

RoD

Irrelevant. Processing speed is not completely governed by instructions/second. Caches, brand prediction units, specialised SSE/etc registers, number of registers, etc etc, all play a part.