San Diego or X2 for BF2?

[GTaudiophile]

Right now I have an AMD 64 4000+ San Diego CPU in my newegg wishlist. Should I stick with it or go for an X2 for BF2?

Anyone else holding out for an X2 before buying the game?

 

[ryanv12]

I highly doubt the game is multithreaded. Your 4000+ will do equally as well as the 4800+

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: ryanv12
I highly doubt the game is multithreaded. Your 4000+ will do equally as well as the 4800+

Agreed.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Right now I have an AMD 64 4000+ San Diego CPU in my newegg wishlist. Should I stick with it or go for an X2 for BF2?

Anyone else holding out for an X2 before buying the game?

If you havn't bought it yet get the 4800+, not that BF2 will be multithreaded, but it should o/c to run the same speed as the 4000+ and you would still have an extra core to do other stuff

I'm holding out until r520 or G70.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Right now I have an AMD 64 4000+ San Diego CPU in my newegg wishlist. Should I stick with it or go for an X2 for BF2?

Anyone else holding out for an X2 before buying the game?

If you havn't bought it yet get the 4800+, not that BF2 will be multithreaded, but it should o/c to run the same speed as the 4000+ and you would still have an extra core to do other stuff

I'm holding out until r520 or G70.

I think you'll be waiting until summer 2006 if you want an afforable (under $500) and available R520.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Right now I have an AMD 64 4000+ San Diego CPU in my newegg wishlist. Should I stick with it or go for an X2 for BF2?

Anyone else holding out for an X2 before buying the game?

If you havn't bought it yet get the 4800+, not that BF2 will be multithreaded, but it should o/c to run the same speed as the 4000+ and you would still have an extra core to do other stuff

I'm holding out until r520 or G70.

I think you'll be waiting until summer 2006 if you want an afforable (under $500) and available R520.

Yeah seems like the G70 will be the card I'll acquire. I'll probably buy late august after holidays + birthday. We'll see.

Rumors also suggest that U2K7 will take advantage of dualcore, oh and I did ofcourse mean the 4400+ not the 4800+

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: ryanv12
I highly doubt the game is multithreaded. Your 4000+ will do equally as well as the 4800+

Agreed.

I also highly doubt either will be any real limitation to framerates in BF2 whatsoever.

I mean HL2 is one of the most CPU intensive games around and look at charts like the last chart on this page:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2330&p=6

This is CLEARLY a very CPU bound case with the x850XT, as the line is dead straight with CPU MHz. Even a 3000+ is able to maintain greater than 60 FPS average, nearing 70FPS average even, which suggests that 2200 MHz provided by the x2 will be more than adequate for providing smooth FPS up into the 80+ FPS range in modern games

Previous BF games have not been very CPU intensive. I just don't think BF2 is going to warrant a top end processor puchase, it's just not going to use it. Save your bucks for a top end video card, I'm willling to bet BF2 will utilize a high end video card significantly more than a high end CPU.