core 2 bad for gaming?

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: CaiNaM
how is that?

unless you're running at very low resolutions 800x600 or 1024x768, etc. C2D is no faster than comparable amd chips. it will remain this way until graphics card get a helluva alot faster.

Actually, it is. Markedly faster? No. But faster.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Originally posted by: xNIKx
i was talking to my freind on vent and he sayd the core 2 was bad for gaming is this true?

Sharikou has friends?!?!?:shocked:

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Kwint Sommer

Originally posted by: xNIKx
i was talking to my freind on vent and he sayd the core 2 was bad for gaming is this true?

If you could read you would have found that to be wildly incorrect (if you can find even 1 major article that supports it I'll send you $10 via paypal). Further, learn how to spell!

Not cool Kwint. Let's work on the hospitality shall we?
Would you like me to be your editor from this point on looking for spelling and grammar errors?

 

[CaiNaM]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: CaiNaM
how is that?

unless you're running at very low resolutions 800x600 or 1024x768, etc. C2D is no faster than comparable amd chips. it will remain this way until graphics card get a helluva alot faster.

Actually, it is. Markedly faster? No. But faster.

heh.. regardless of how "fast" the cpu is, it's only as fast as the slowest component - which is at this point in time the gpu for the most part. RTS' are cpu bound for example, and in these types of situations (where the bottleneck is not the gpu) the C2D does show it's superiority.

 

[harpoon84]

Originally posted by: CaiNaM
unless you're running at very low resolutions 800x600 or 1024x768, etc. C2D is no faster than comparable amd chips. it will remain this way until graphics card get a helluva alot faster.

That's not entirely true, you've been reading too much HardOCP nonsense I'm afraid.

RTS (as you mentioned), flight sims, and online FPS games like BF2 and CS:S are all heavily CPU bound. Oblivion is heavily CPU bound also in a lot of scenes.

From what I've seen games that tend to be GPU bound are single player FPS games like F.E.A.R. and COD2.

Besides, DX10 cards will be released soon and if they are anything like current SLI/CF setups then you will see C2D have a ~20% lead in gaming except at extreme resolutions.

 

[akshayt]

if you have CF then c2d is better even at high settings, but if you have a single high end card, then in most cases c2d is not noticeably better, but still worth buying for the near future and for overclocking and for sse4

 

[Kwint Sommer]

Originally posted by: harpoon84

Originally posted by: CaiNaM
unless you're running at very low resolutions 800x600 or 1024x768, etc. C2D is no faster than comparable amd chips. it will remain this way until graphics card get a helluva alot faster.

That's not entirely true, you've been reading too much HardOCP nonsense I'm afraid.

RTS (as you mentioned), flight sims, and online FPS games like BF2 and CS:S are all heavily CPU bound. Oblivion is heavily CPU bound also in a lot of scenes.

From what I've seen games that tend to be GPU bound are single player FPS games like F.E.A.R. and COD2.

Besides, DX10 cards will be released soon and if they are anything like current SLI/CF setups then you will see C2D have a ~20% lead in gaming except at extreme resolutions.

Even games like Rome Total War are CPU bound despite displaying in excess of 10,000 soldiers at one time. The hard part is having them interact intelligently as opposed to drawing them.

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: acegazda

Originally posted by: George Powell
Your friend is wrong, the absolute best gaming chip is Core 2 followed by A64 X2 then Core Duo then Athlon 64 and so on.....

false, right now, the X2 3800+ and the a64 3800+ are equivelent for gaming. The single core might even pull ahead in some instances. Multithreaded games like oblivion might be different

EDIT: have you used a core duo chip for the desktop? I'm pretty sure the a64 would beat that in gaming performance.

Actually its more like:

Core2 > Core > X2

Core Duo's only trail Core2's by about 10-15% at the same clock speed. However, they are very rare for desktop uses. I myself have one overclocked to the 2.4Ghz, and it spanks an X2 of the same clock speed easily in gaming.

 

[Soul Colossus]

Originally posted by: dainthomas
It's bad because after you drop $499 at newegg, you have no money for games.

E6600 is $340 at buy.com

 

[dasmokedog]

Originally posted by: xNIKx
i was talking to my freind on vent and he sayd the core 2 was bad for gaming is this true?

What a stupid question! You are just asking to be flammed.

:roll:

 

[cmdrdredd]

Maybe he was talking about for a really big gamer they will spend alot of money on a C2D and then have nothing left for a good GPU...while if you go with AMD you can save money and get a better GPU?

 

[sangchu3102]

Originally posted by: xNIKx
i was talking to my freind on vent and he sayd the core 2 was bad for gaming is this true?

Or maybe he's talking about his persomal opinion so that way he won't be blamed for being wrong