Sooo, this is still going to suck berrys for gaming right? I kind of want to get a new setup soon and as far as I can tell c2d is still the way to go for a gaming machine, no?
Don't know where you got that idea. There are some indications it's down a little bit (like 10%) clock for clock against Core 2 Duo on some benchmarks.
On the other hand, this has 4 cores and Core 2 Duo has 2. So any of these 3 shown will do far better than the fastest Core 2 Duo.
Yea of course computationally it will be faster than a c2d but I'm asking about gaming performance. If the games arent programmed to use all 4 cores whats the point of spending the extra few hundred on the chip alone, not to mention expensive mobo and at least 3 sticks of ddr3, if youre not going to get any real performance gains out of it?
Games are still mostly working the video card and will be for the next 5 years or if Windows makes something new that splits the code among the cores. I will get one for Maya once prices start falling by december 2009 or early 2010... =0(
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Sooo, this is still going to suck berrys for gaming right? I kind of want to get a new setup soon and as far as I can tell c2d is still the way to go for a gaming machine, no?
Suck berries?
Don't know where you got that idea. There are some indications it's down a little bit (like 10%) clock for clock against Core 2 Duo on some benchmarks.
On the other hand, this has 4 cores and Core 2 Duo has 2. So any of these 3 shown will do far better than the fastest Core 2 Duo.
Yea of course computationally it will be faster than a c2d but I'm asking about gaming performance. If the games arent programmed to use all 4 cores whats the point of spending the extra few hundred on the chip alone, not to mention expensive mobo and at least 3 sticks of ddr3, if youre not going to get any real performance gains out of it?
you answered you own question right there.
Games are still mostly working the video card and will be for the next 5 years or if Windows makes something new that splits the code among the cores. I will get one for Maya once prices start falling by december 2009 or early 2010... =0(
I'm talking about gaming performance. Some say it is 10% slower clock-for-clock on some real world benchmarks.
Why not just wait until next week and see the plethora of figures available. Then you can make up your own mind.