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Dual-Core in games?

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Bona Fide

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Does anyone have a reasonable estimate of when dual-core is gonna hit the gaming market full-on? I've heard things from "early 2006" to "mid 2007". The dual-core market is really big right now, and AMD seemed to be doing well. Now it looks like they've collapsed under the demand...the 4400+ has been OOS for close to a week now.

I've also been looking at XtremeSystems' Intel Dual-core OC threads (I know...I'm a traitor), and those Smithfields get some pretty nice OC's. One guy got his 820 (2.8) up to 4.2 or something on air. Prime stable and everything. Sandra's tests showed him outperforming an FX-57 by something like 200% and keeping good pace with a 4800+. :Q
 
That and many of the 4800+ crowd have been getting 2.7ghz+ on air.....

Get it, if it sounds so great...the fact is 4.2ghz is not norm and likely was some extreme cooling...Link me to it so I can see what kind of air it is.... I have not seen many ocing results with Pentium Ds except at extreme and most of those guys there dont care about stability or know what stability is...they live for superpi 1mb scores.....


http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68427

Taken from the site itself...4ghz is no gaurantee and most in this thread haven't even seen them.....air ??? not likely...
 
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67891

here is a guy running 4ghz with a htper 48, but like normal for that retard site no real benches done...who knows if even stable...they live on a diet of sandra scores and superpi 1mb...which by the way sucks with 33sec...Heck my 3000+ winchester at 2.66ghz was 30sec....

What a bunch of retards runing a single threaded app like superpi on a dual core machine and think we should be impressed....LOL!!!


http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentiumd-820_5.html

Here is a nice roundup of ocing on a real P-D....


<<Once again we are confronted with the difference between Screenshot stable (and almost synonymous, sandra stable) and 100% stable. You've worked with P4's surely more than I have. And even I know that on a p4 Sandra stable is Hundreds of mhz away from actual stability.>>

I think this sums up the cast of retards at extreme (their leader Fugger)....


best you will get from me is a 32m pi. I dont run prime for hours.
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from beloved Fugger..I guess we can count out most of his records as ebing anything stable...The INtel crowd over their is truly mental...
 
duvie still thrashes me at superpi, the best i can do at 2.66 is 31.8s

but I can go close to 2.8 superpi32m stable, it will crash in games like nothing though, sandra is pretty useless for benchmarks anyways
 
I wasn't saying that, I was just asking if dual-core is gonna make a big splash any time soon.

The Intel thing was bit on the side...the Pentium D 820 costs $238 and was able to keep pace with a $1000 cpu. Not bad...but I know the 4800+ can be overclocked as well.
 
Originally posted by: Bona Fide
I wasn't saying that, I was just asking if dual-core is gonna make a big splash any time soon.

The Intel thing was bit on the side...the Pentium D 820 costs $238 and was able to keep pace with a $1000 cpu. Not bad...but I know the 4800+ can be overclocked as well.
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for games no, we'll have quad core by the time games become ever so more multi threaded. Something like Unreal 3 engine will probably support multiple cores but I doubt it would be required.

I'd think something like a PPU would be adopted by game developers more quickly than dual core, not to mention would probably have a greater effect.

Dual core and gaming right now means you can game and process other stuff at the same time, especially with X2s being pretty much as fast as the fastest single core A64s in games.
 
Originally posted by: Duvie
Originally posted by: BouZouki
The INtel crowd over their is truly mental...
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I think your to used to the CPU forum I mean, AMD forum here.
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hahahaha...No the intel crowd in here (excluding Intelia) is far more intelligent IMO....
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I agree, back during the days of Northwood domination of the XP, you could have read posts from Duvie and could swear he was the kind of guy who might never touch AMD. Look at him now, a true testament to someone who's after the best processor experience for their dollar - consideration going to price, performance and heat/power/noise.

Simply put, Intel's move to 90nm was a big dissapointment, little good, if any at all, has come from it. In fact its hard to think of any direct good that has come from it, the only "good" being Intel's most likely less than willing move towards P-M technology and the early retiring of netburst.
 
Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles

I agree, back during the days of Northwood domination of the XP, you could have read posts from Duvie and could swear he was the kind of guy who might never touch AMD. Look at him now, a true testament to someone who's after the best processor experience for their dollar - consideration going to price, performance and heat/power/noise.

Simply put, Intel's move to 90nm was a big dissapointment, little good, if any at all, has come from it. In fact its hard to think of any direct good that has come from it, the only "good" being Intel's most likely less than willing move towards P-M technology and the early retiring of netburst.
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Well put...I've been reading a lot of how the forums here are very AMDcentric, but my experience is that most here are strongly in favour of whatever the current leader happens to be.
Add to that the fact that AMD is doing so incredibly well across all of their lines, and I can understand how someone with less experience here would come to the conclusion that everyone's an AMD fan here...
 
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