How many here are still gaming on a Single Core?

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: invidia
I use a dual core. I think WoW was patched to utilize dual cores a couple months ago. But I still don't see a difference. I'm also on PCI-e instead of those old school AGP.

Supposedly it does as there was recently a thread on it in the WoW general forum. Someone said it only affects things like hardware audio.

EDIT:

But I can say that I've never seen WoW use more than 25% on my quad-core.

 

[Trente]

Single-core Athlon 64 (3200+) along with a PCI-e GF6600GT here. I can run Crysis on lowest settings at 1024x768 fine; same goes for CoD4 and Bioshock. An upgrade isn't worth it I think, other than buying a whole new rig.. I'd love to have a new rig: experiencing all the excitement that accompanies the process of buying parts after an extensive research, and then building it. But I also really want a Macbook Air... can't decide what I want/need more.

 

[Kadarin]

AMD 3500+ here with a relatively new HD2600Pro. I'm not a heavy gamer, but this thing can run two simultaneous EVE clients in windowed mode, provided I don't turn on the shiny new Trinity graphics. I may soon retire this thing, however.

 

[Continuity28]

I am, but want to upgrade.

I currently have an AMD 64 4000+ (2.4Ghz), by upgrading I get plenty. Core 2 processors have higher IPC, and some can hit near 4 Ghz with overclocking, which is a huge boost alone, not to mention the fact it would have two/four cores instead of one. I'm less concerned with the multiple cores for srictly gaming than the speed boost. Of course, in the future, having multiple cores will likely help a lot more for gaming as well.

Plus, I definately want to upgrade my 7900GT.

 

[Sketcher]

P4 3.6Ghz | 2GB RAM | 8800 GT 512 PCI-E | 74GB Raptor x2

I'd like to start building a new rig but don't have a compelling reason to do so.
I mostly play COD4 and HL2DM and run smooth at 1280x1024 with enough candy turned on to make it sweet.

Probably build something new later in the year.

 

[Eeezee]

I don't see what single core has to do with AGP. There are still tons of single core chips floating around that are pretty good. My last box was PCI-E and single core...

I'm running dual core now, but I didn't really notice a big difference when I switched (6 months ago). I'm sure I'd probably notice if I went back to single core.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: invidia
I use a dual core. I think WoW was patched to utilize dual cores a couple months ago. But I still don't see a difference. I'm also on PCI-e instead of those old school AGP.

i see a real difference

But then your GPU has to "match" your processor ... when i ran a x850xt a P4 EE @ 3.74 Ghz was sufficient for the games i played at 8x11/9x12.

When i upgraded to x1950p/512MB, the P4 was definitely "holding it back" at my new resolution of 14x9. Upgrading to C2D eliminated that 'bottleneck'. When i got a 2900xt, i needed to OC my Processor to about 2.8Ghz to take full advantage of a fast card and then could game all DX9 games at 16x10 full maxed out but 0xAA/16xAF .

.. OC'ing my processor further - to 3.25Ghz allows me to take full advantage of CrossFire and i can now play Hellgate: London in Full DX10 - ultra-extreme shaders/settings - all in-game settings fully maxed AND with 4xAA/16xAF

my next upgrade will be to QuadCore when more games like Crysis take better advantage of it

 

[Dumac]

3500+ Venice here

 

[Skunkwourk]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
I don't see what single core has to do with AGP. There are still tons of single core chips floating around that are pretty good. My last box was PCI-E and single core...

I'm running dual core now, but I didn't really notice a big difference when I switched (6 months ago). I'm sure I'd probably notice if I went back to single core.

While I can't prove any direct correlation, I imagine that most people who still use Single core rigs, have also held off on upgrading to PCI-E since they'd most likely do a full overhaul to multi core and PCI-E. However, there are exceptions such as yourself.

My motherboard is 754, so Im limited to Single core and there were only a few 754 PCI-E boards, mine is not one. However, If I recall correctly, most people with 939 boards upgraded to X2s. and most 939 boards were also PCI-E. This of course doesn't take Intel into consideration.

 

[zerocool84]

I'm on Intel Dual Core with AGP

 

[GZDynastar]

I'm still on my p4 2.4 800FSB. 6800GT AGP and 2gb DDR400 RAM.

And it flies. Granted Im not playing crysis or anything, but I play CoH, CSS, TF2, GW... all sorts of games with no problems.