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The cpu-z doesn't recognize it, that is why its classified as a core i7, but it is the i9.so thats why its a six core Gulftown chip but shouldve tested it in its default clockspeedPowerful.
[QUOTE="SalikTirmizi"]
thats not Core i9 but Corei7 model
wklzip
[QUOTE="strider_ATI"]rendring6 cores...Maybe in 3 or 4 years, but now it's totally useless.
vegita92
true, i mean even now you might see a slight performance increase with these chips, not much, you wont see much of an increase using 6 cores over 4 cores (for gaming) atleast for a year or two, then you might see the 6 cores starting to matter (in gaming)
but for other tasks, rendering and all the other tasks like it, it would prolly show more of improvement. along with lots of RAM....
The cpu-z doesn't recognize it, that is why its classified as a core i7, but it is the i9.so thats why its a six core Gulftown chip but shouldve tested it in its default clockspeed You are totally right, i would also like to see some benchies showing the power of this baby on stock speed.[QUOTE="wklzip"]
Powerful.
[QUOTE="SalikTirmizi"]
thats not Core i9 but Corei7 model
SalikTirmizi
rendring[QUOTE="vegita92"][QUOTE="strider_ATI"]
6 cores...Maybe in 3 or 4 years, but now it's totally useless.
Lach0121
true, i mean even now you might see a slight performance increase with these chips, not much, you wont see much of an increase using 6 cores over 4 cores (for gaming) atleast for a year or two, then you might see the 6 cores starting to matter (in gaming)
but for other tasks, rendering and all the other tasks like it, it would prolly show more of improvement. along with lots of RAM....
I was thinking the same, i expected quad cores to start being useful much later but at least the dragon age origins benchie someone here posted sometime ago proved that games can get optimized to get more juice out of more cores :)Or wecould say that it was just aimed just to run on quad cores that is why they have the upper hand. :(
@wklzip
yeah i know, i plan on upgrading my 6000+ to a phenom II 940 and OCing it from 3.0ghz, to 3.3 or 3.4ghz or something. and Dragon Age is definately one im picking up after i upgrade my pc. (also maybe after a nvidia dx11 card) i can be playing Dragon Age maxed at those settings hopefully minimum would be 45fps+ maybe even better dont know we will see once nvidia does their thing.
ill stick with my am2+ and the 940 phenom II, no reason for me to spend all that money on new sockets and mobos/ram, when i can just max what i have with this cpu and a good videocard (also my ram is timed at 4-4-4-12) and ill be good for a few more years, then a full upgrade would be more worth it, but for now, i think im making the best price/performance ratio, by just upgrading my cpu and videocard, lol and maybe soundcard, x-fi seems like a good idea, any other sound card recommendations?
lol sorry i just got to rambling lol.
Price/Performance ratio is also my route :) And yes sticking to that mobo its an excellent choice to do the best possible upgrade in price for the cpu. ;) But sound cards, i believe nameless knows more about them, can you help me here a bit nameless? :D@wklzip
yeah i know, i plan on upgrading my 6000+ to a phenom II 940 and OCing it from 3.0ghz, to 3.3 or 3.4ghz or something. and Dragon Age is definately one im picking up after i upgrade my pc. (also maybe after a nvidia dx11 card) i can be playing Dragon Age maxed at those settings hopefully minimum would be 45fps+ maybe even better dont know we will see once nvidia does their thing.
ill stick with my am2+ and the 940 phenom II, no reason for me to spend all that money on new sockets and mobos/ram, when i can just max what i have with this cpu and a good videocard (also my ram is timed at 4-4-4-12) and ill be good for a few more years, then a full upgrade would be more worth it, but for now, i think im making the best price/performance ratio, by just upgrading my cpu and videocard, lol and maybe soundcard, x-fi seems like a good idea, any other sound card recommendations?
lol sorry i just got to rambling lol.
Lach0121
Price/Performance ratio is also my route :) And yes sticking to that mobo its an excellent choice to do the best possible upgrade in price for the cpu. ;) But sound cards, i believe nameless knows more about them, can you help me here a bit nameless? :D Hey, where have you been on the CBPCU boards, or Xfire/Steam for that matter? I haven't seen you around lately, other than in here! On to the sound card question: after several driver revisions, my Auzentech X-Fi Prelude is finally a nice sound card that just works, though I paid way too much for it back in November 2007 (US$190!, but that was the standard Newegg price at the time). However, that's PCI-based, and if you have only free PCIe x1 slots (or longer ones not occupied by anything), then you'll have to look at the X-Fi Forte (whose potential driver quirks I wouldn't know due to not having one), or if you really want your audio run through HDMI, the X-Fi HomeTheater HD (which is basically a Forte with HDMI ports on top). Just don't expect much support for anything X-Fi-based outside of Windows...but if you're mostly going to be gaming, you're probably just going to run Windows anyway. There are other options out there (such as Asus' Xonar line), but you'd probably be sacrificing EAX support beyond 2.0 doing so. That, and I've heard reports that all the other sound cards (and even onboard Realtek codecs, for that matter) all have driver quirks for various people.[QUOTE="Lach0121"]
@wklzip
yeah i know, i plan on upgrading my 6000+ to a phenom II 940 and OCing it from 3.0ghz, to 3.3 or 3.4ghz or something. and Dragon Age is definately one im picking up after i upgrade my pc. (also maybe after a nvidia dx11 card) i can be playing Dragon Age maxed at those settings hopefully minimum would be 45fps+ maybe even better dont know we will see once nvidia does their thing.
ill stick with my am2+ and the 940 phenom II, no reason for me to spend all that money on new sockets and mobos/ram, when i can just max what i have with this cpu and a good videocard (also my ram is timed at 4-4-4-12) and ill be good for a few more years, then a full upgrade would be more worth it, but for now, i think im making the best price/performance ratio, by just upgrading my cpu and videocard, lol and maybe soundcard, x-fi seems like a good idea, any other sound card recommendations?
lol sorry i just got to rambling lol.
wklzip
[QUOTE="wklzip"]Price/Performance ratio is also my route :) And yes sticking to that mobo its an excellent choice to do the best possible upgrade in price for the cpu. ;) But sound cards, i believe nameless knows more about them, can you help me here a bit nameless? :D Hey, where have you been on the CBPCU boards, or Xfire/Steam for that matter? I haven't seen you around lately, other than in here! On to the sound card question: after several driver revisions, my Auzentech X-Fi Prelude is finally a nice sound card that just works, though I paid way too much for it back in November 2007 (US$190!, but that was the standard Newegg price at the time). However, that's PCI-based, and if you have only free PCIe x1 slots (or longer ones not occupied by anything), then you'll have to look at the X-Fi Forte (whose potential driver quirks I wouldn't know due to not having one), or if you really want your audio run through HDMI, the X-Fi HomeTheater HD (which is basically a Forte with HDMI ports on top). Just don't expect much support for anything X-Fi-based outside of Windows...but if you're mostly going to be gaming, you're probably just going to run Windows anyway. There are other options out there (such as Asus' Xonar line), but you'd probably be sacrificing EAX support beyond 2.0 doing so. That, and I've heard reports that all the other sound cards (and even onboard Realtek codecs, for that matter) all have driver quirks for various people.[QUOTE="Lach0121"]
@wklzip
yeah i know, i plan on upgrading my 6000+ to a phenom II 940 and OCing it from 3.0ghz, to 3.3 or 3.4ghz or something. and Dragon Age is definately one im picking up after i upgrade my pc. (also maybe after a nvidia dx11 card) i can be playing Dragon Age maxed at those settings hopefully minimum would be 45fps+ maybe even better dont know we will see once nvidia does their thing.
ill stick with my am2+ and the 940 phenom II, no reason for me to spend all that money on new sockets and mobos/ram, when i can just max what i have with this cpu and a good videocard (also my ram is timed at 4-4-4-12) and ill be good for a few more years, then a full upgrade would be more worth it, but for now, i think im making the best price/performance ratio, by just upgrading my cpu and videocard, lol and maybe soundcard, x-fi seems like a good idea, any other sound card recommendations?
lol sorry i just got to rambling lol.
NamelessPlayer
ok thanks so the auzentech x-fi would be what you recommend.. right now i have a logitech x540 5.1 surround sound. but ill be upgrading that later, also i have a digital 5.1 spherex surround sound.. but most pc games arent digital 5.1.. i think i have to have dolby digital live... which do any of these cards you mentioned have that? and is it worth anything?
I haven't really used Dolby Digital Live (just use a cheap 3.5mm stereo headset, unfortunately), but all the Auzentech cards have it. It's been a selling point since their C-Media chipset days. It's especially important with X-Fi cards since it should allow you to retain EAX effects and whatnot in games, which generally encode in PCM (uncompressed). S/PDIF only has the bandwidth for stereo PCM; Dolby Digital and DTS are compressed to fit 5.1 surround sound within the bandwidth limitations. What Dolby Digital Live does is basically encode the sound signal on-the-fly before sending it out.ok thanks so the auzentech x-fi would be what you recommend.. right now i have a logitech x540 5.1 surround sound. but ill be upgrading that later, also i have a digital 5.1 spherex surround sound.. but most pc games arent digital 5.1.. i think i have to have dolby digital live... which do any of these cards you mentioned have that? and is it worth anything?
Lach0121
Boring screenshot if you ask me. Here is the Intel Sixcore monster in realworld applications:
http://pclab.pl/art39718-9.html
Yes, it uses the same power as a i5 750 and runs cooler than any Intel/AMD quadcore at similar clock speed.
[QUOTE="SalikTirmizi"]so thats why its a six core Gulftown chip but shouldve tested it in its default clockspeed You are totally right, i would also like to see some benchies showing the power of this baby on stock speed.this chip really wont be that good i suppose given that todays games are just optimized for dual cores but very few use quad core .[QUOTE="wklzip"] The cpu-z doesn't recognize it, that is why its classified as a core i7, but it is the i9.
wklzip
[QUOTE="Lach0121"]I haven't really used Dolby Digital Live (just use a cheap 3.5mm stereo headset, unfortunately), but all the Auzentech cards have it. It's been a selling point since their C-Media chipset days. It's especially important with X-Fi cards since it should allow you to retain EAX effects and whatnot in games, which generally encode in PCM (uncompressed). S/PDIF only has the bandwidth for stereo PCM; Dolby Digital and DTS are compressed to fit 5.1 surround sound within the bandwidth limitations. What Dolby Digital Live does is basically encode the sound signal on-the-fly before sending it out.ok thanks so the auzentech x-fi would be what you recommend.. right now i have a logitech x540 5.1 surround sound. but ill be upgrading that later, also i have a digital 5.1 spherex surround sound.. but most pc games arent digital 5.1.. i think i have to have dolby digital live... which do any of these cards you mentioned have that? and is it worth anything?
NamelessPlayer
well i do appreciate the help and info.
would you know if eax would work if im going spdif with dolby digital live? and would it be much of a latency to what is happening as apposed to how long it is encoded/processed, to how long it is ouputed thru speakers?
if you know that would be cool, though i see you havent used it much but if you have any answers maybe you could send it to me in my inbox on here. that way we dont stray too far from topic.
Hey, where have you been on the CBPCU boards, or Xfire/Steam for that matter? I haven't seen you around lately, other than in here! NamelessPlayer
Hey! I am on the CBPCU board, you just ignore my posts :P
And i am doing very little gaming lately, on dec i should start doing more after classes :)
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