Do you really need QuadCore?

[Nvidia2000]

Do you really need quad core? I went from Opteron 144 @ 2.6Ghz to Opteron 165 @ 2.6Ghz recently and i already find the biggest bottleneck of my computer right now is the harddrive(74GB Raptor as boot drive and 200GB as data drive). Correct me if im wrong, but don't harddrive bottleneck the most nowadays?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Look at my dual Xeons with HyperThreading. :smiles;

Sure, why not. Will I pay for it, no. My Xeons are working very well for me still. But when it comes time to upgrade, damn skippy I'll be getting a dual dual-core machine.

And need is such a relative word. So long as the hardware isn't going to waste, it shouldn't matter.

 

[Bobthelost]

Yes and no. More CPU power will help in many circumstances and applications where the work in progress is held in the RAM. However the HD is a major bottleneck. Look forward to solid state drives and hybrid drives in the near future.

 

[Ike0069]

I'm rarley doing something that would even benefit form a dual core, let alone quad core. Seems like way overkill for a desktop right now.

 

[YoshiSato]

Originally posted by: Ike0069
I'm rarley doing something that would even benefit form a dual core, let alone quad core. Seems like way overkill for a desktop right now.

Wait for MS Vista. You'll need 2xQuad + 1GB of RAM just to run notepad

Here's to all of you that say 2GB of RAM is too much.

You'll need that much to play Quake 3 at the lowest settings.(FEAR needs 4GB just to be playable on Vista)

 

[OSX]

For a while, 640K of RAM was too much. It'll get used up, believe me.

 

[EndGame]

Originally posted by: YoshiSato

Originally posted by: Ike0069
I'm rarley doing something that would even benefit form a dual core, let alone quad core. Seems like way overkill for a desktop right now.

Wait for MS Vista. You'll need 2xQuad + 1GB of RAM just to run notepad

Here's to all of you that say 2GB of RAM is too much.

You'll need that much to play Quake 3 at the lowest settings.(FEAR needs 4GB just to be playable on Vista)

LMAO....

Who told you that? I'm a Vista beta tester for MS and that's simply BS. Vista runs fine with all eyecandy on with 1GB. I did some gaming while still on 1GB (COD2, BF2, Brothers In Arms) and they ran fine with my X1900XT. Since then I've upgraded to 2GB of ram and the only difference is on high/ultra settings on in all games, I get higher frame rates.

 

[bob4432]

totally depends on computer uses...

 

[the Chase]

Originally posted by: EndGame

Originally posted by: YoshiSato

Originally posted by: Ike0069
I'm rarley doing something that would even benefit form a dual core, let alone quad core. Seems like way overkill for a desktop right now.

Wait for MS Vista. You'll need 2xQuad + 1GB of RAM just to run notepad

Here's to all of you that say 2GB of RAM is too much.

You'll need that much to play Quake 3 at the lowest settings.(FEAR needs 4GB just to be playable on Vista)

LMAO....

Who told you that? I'm a Vista beta tester for MS and that's simply BS. Vista runs fine with all eyecandy on with 1GB. I did some gaming while still on 1GB (COD2, BF2, Brothers In Arms) and they ran fine with my X1900XT. Since then I've upgraded to 2GB of ram and the only difference is on high/ultra settings on in all games, I get higher frame rates.

Don't tell the memory manufacturers this- grown men crying is never a pretty sight...

 

[potato28]

Gaming! SMP patches are coming out, and we're gonna need more fps to hs a 8 yer old in CSS!

 

[imported_JohnH]

Not really. Its not worth the extra cost.

 

[NanoStuff]

Probably not yet. Raytracing apparently scales very well for multiple cores, so it's likely inevitable we do make use of 4,8,16 cores in the near future. Quite possibly both for CPUs and GPUs.

 

[YoshiSato]

Originally posted by: EndGame

Originally posted by: YoshiSato

Originally posted by: Ike0069
I'm rarley doing something that would even benefit form a dual core, let alone quad core. Seems like way overkill for a desktop right now.

Wait for MS Vista. You'll need 2xQuad + 1GB of RAM just to run notepad

Here's to all of you that say 2GB of RAM is too much.

You'll need that much to play Quake 3 at the lowest settings.(FEAR needs 4GB just to be playable on Vista)

LMAO....



Who told you that? I'm a Vista beta tester for MS and that's simply BS. Vista runs fine with all eyecandy on with 1GB. I did some gaming while still on 1GB (COD2, BF2, Brothers In Arms) and they ran fine with my X1900XT. Since then I've upgraded to 2GB of ram and the only difference is on high/ultra settings on in all games, I get higher frame rates.

It's all right here
http://theinquirer.net/?article=30537


http://theinquirer.net/?article=30503

But then again this may change because Microsoft needs to start from scratch with Vista
http://theinquirer.net/?article=30516

 

[EndGame]

LOL!

1) Of course ram manufacturers are going to capitalize on ANY oppertunity to sell more product..........who wouldn't!

2) If you did a bit more digging you would find out that the system the "tested" was a system loaded with 5308 release one which had inheriant problems implementing new features and terrible memory problems............thus, the second release of 5308.

3) I've read all of those...and probably a whole lot more......there's more going on here than meets the eye and what's being reported. Case in point, there's been another release (5324) since this was released............