Dual-core over quad-core right now for gaming but how about the future?

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: minmaster
heh i waited this long, what's another half-year?

From everything we keep hearing from the "experts", it's going to be ~12 months before the less than $300 Nehalems hit the streets.

Hmmm...But random sources around the Internet indicate Q4 2008 at About $316 I also read somewhere a price of $284. Don't recall the source.

Releasing a part has little to do with when people can actually find them in stock.

After releasing QX9560 it seemed like it took 3-4 months (to recollection) before people stopped posting requests in the forums on where they could find Q9450/9550's in stock.

Announcing a $284/1k-tray pricepoint SKU is all Intel needs to do to pin the upper-limit of AMD's Deneb SKU's.

Intel doesn't have to volume ship those $284 SKU's in order to inflict the damage on AMD's Deneb APSs.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Plus we all know at least once a quarter you have to buy a new computer toy. :laugh:

thats too long for me. :X

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Plus we all know at least once a quarter you have to buy a new computer toy. :laugh:

thats too long for me. :X

Oh Oh I just looked at your sig. You are running "ancient" HD3870s and 8800GTs. That's unacceptable Waiting for 1GB 4870s?

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Plus we all know at least once a quarter you have to buy a new computer toy. :laugh:

thats too long for me. :X

Oh Oh I just looked at your sig. You are running "ancient" HD3870s and 8800GTs. That's unacceptable Waiting for 1GB 4870s?

ROFL!

yes, cuz i have a controller card to go with 6 raptors that require my other 8x pci-e.

:T

so im forced to get the X2 and wait on an acceptable bios upgrade for my DFI.

 

[minmaster]

well it looks like nehalem doesn't exactly blow things away in gaming according to the recent articles here. if that's the casae i might not wait and go for a lga775 cpu system.

 

[apoppin]

So i didn't order 2 weeks ago .. and i *need* an E0 .. not likely in Q9550 even now

So ..

i am *going* to get THIS Asus P5e deluxe MB and flash it into Rampage:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131317

Now since i AM running H4870xTHREE - i need the fastest bang for buck *dual core*

[yes, i saw the friggin' "light" and realized that a QC will not be necessary till Neha kicks Penryns ass next Spring; until then DC rules and QC drools]
:roll:

Now *which CPU* is best bang for buck for that MB?

Wolfdale's e8400 for $169? Will it be e0? What are you guys getting and is there another better choice?

i want to run away from the best QuadCore's O/C.
- well over 4 Ghz. i need the raw speed for my graphics reviews.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115037

my other choice appears to be e8500 - 3.16 Wolfie for $20 more

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115036

- i'd like my best chance at higher O/C'ing

i order tonight for delivery next Wednesday or so; then i rebuild my rig

maybe a GTX280 also [i don't see 260+ yet]=P
-i need to know the truth about it vs the 4870
:Q

 

[apoppin]

Ok.. thanks for the help

i got a BFG GTX280, e8500 - which *better OC* - Asus P5e x48 MB, and 2x2GB OCZ PC8500 [1066] all arriving this week from NewEgg

NOW .. you can tell me i should have "got this instead"
:roll:
- heck, it's *only $1,000* .. "no interest for a year"

so i picked Dual over Quad - until Neha kicks Penryn's ass next Spring

i am thinking my rig should not be so platform-limited for 4870x3 crossfire anymore

 

[Tempered81]

microcenter has E0 e8400 for $149 online or instore. Good luck with your e8500, and if it's the original C0 you might still be able to get it to 4.4g with some love. Hopefully you'll get an E0 e8500.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
microcenter has E0 e8400 for $149 online or instore. Good luck with your e8500, and if it's the original C0 you might still be able to get it to 4.4g with some love. Hopefully you'll get an E0 e8500.

thanks!

i think Newegg has mostly E0s now; Microcenter doesn't have the 'no interest for a year' plan and i wanted an 8500 over 8400. For luck.

Get it to 4.4 . . . with Love .. ?


i prefer to use my thermalright cooler and a scythe120 instead
- and i lap the CPU also

4.4Ghz is a minimum to keep 4870x3 Crossfire happy
- i know i could not get that with a Q9550

 

[Gillbot]

I would have picked the E85 over the E84 so good move there. That extra multi leaves you wiggle room.

 

[taltamir]

the UE3 engine already does a lot better with quad core. And so do a few other games... If the game works better with a dual core, it usually works just as well with a quad core (aka, it doesn't need the extra power). But if it does need it, well, your dualy aint gonna cut it.
I upgraded from an E8400 to a Q6600

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: taltamir
the UE3 engine already does a lot better with quad core. And so do a few other games... If the game works better with a dual core, it usually works just as well with a quad core (aka, it doesn't need the extra power). But if it does need it, well, your dualy aint gonna cut it.
I upgraded from an E8400 to a Q6600

first of all, my e4300 is at 3.33Ghz and that does not cut with even a 4870x2! i think your q6600 would be just as bad a bottleneck as mine is now. Yours is great for up to - and perhaps including - GTX280, i think. It is a great match for gt260 or hd4870 imo.

Here is what i reason: if the dual core is fast enough .. say an optimistic 8500@ 4.6 Ghz .. its higher core speed will mostly compensate *in gaming* for a slower clocked quad core below 4 Ghz in the games you mention.
--and in 90+% of other games it will run away from your QC

if i only had a single 4870 or GTX280 [i do] ... but i mean if i wasn't using Crossfire Hd4870x3 ... i'd probably have gone with a QC. i simply need the fastest O/C'd CPU i can afford - and that would have been the Q9550 or e8500 .. with what i saved on my CPU, i got 2x4GB of PC8500 [my PC6400 won't get even close to 1200mhz without serious divider usage]

 

[taltamir]

4.6ghz is WAYYYY beyond optimistic OC...

in most games a 4870x2 + a Q6600, the bottleneck is the 60FPS max the LCD monitor can display, not the video card or the CPU. For the few games that are limited by those, a quad usually helps. (oblivion, supreme commander, mass effect, microsoft flight sim...)