is the quade core over kill

core 2 duo vs quad core,  I have read some places that intel is going to lower theyre prices but

Im wondering if my oc:ed e6700 is going to be fine for the newxt say 2 years, or am I going to be sucking unless I get a quad core.

core 2 duo vs quad core, I have read some places that intel is going to lower theyre prices but

Im wondering if my oc:ed e6700 is going to be fine for the newxt say 2 years, or am I going to be sucking unless I get a quad core.

badgerslut

I'd wait it out and get a Core 2 Duo. I have Core2 Duo running in my machine and it works very well. I'm sure if you have money to burn, you should get the quad but you know it will drop in price sooner or later.Boba_Fett_3710

[QUOTE="Boba_Fett_3710"]I'd wait it out and get a Core 2 Duo. I have Core2 Duo running in my machine and it works very well. I'm sure if you have money to burn, you should get the quad but you know it will drop in price sooner or later.jfelisario

is the quade core over kill

is the quade core over kill

is the quade core over killZBoater

There is no such thing as overkill when it comes to PCs... :D

[QUOTE="ZBoater"]

is the quade core over killSSJBen

There is no such thing as overkill when it comes to PCs... :D

[QUOTE="SSJBen"][QUOTE="ZBoater"]

is the quade core over killjfelisario

There is no such thing as overkill when it comes to PCs... :D

seeing as 2 of the cores wont even be used for a few more years this makes the 2 remaining cores weaker then a dual core and your actually be getting much worse performance but just like with dual cores eventually games will use them but not for atleast 5 years not many people want to spend $1500 just for a cpu.white45e

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTMwNiwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

The simple fact is that although Dual core is GOOD, Quad is BETTER. :D

[QUOTE="white45e"]seeing as 2 of the cores wont even be used for a few more years this makes the 2 remaining cores weaker then a dual core and your actually be getting much worse performance but just like with dual cores eventually games will use them but not for atleast 5 years not many people want to spend $1500 just for a cpu.ZBoater

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTMwNiwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

The simple fact is that although Dual core is GOOD, Quad is BETTER. :D

[QUOTE="ZBoater"]

[QUOTE="white45e"]seeing as 2 of the cores wont even be used for a few more years this makes the 2 remaining cores weaker then a dual core and your actually be getting much worse performance but just like with dual cores eventually games will use them but not for atleast 5 years not many people want to spend $1500 just for a cpu.jfelisario

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTMwNiwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

The simple fact is that although Dual core is GOOD, Quad is BETTER. :D

im sorry if i offended you and made you feel like you wasted your money which you did... because by the time a quad core will give any kind of performance boost urs will be inferior and outdated...

pwned  

well i dont know where you live but in canada quad cores will cost me about $1300 with tax and everything about $1500.... so yeaaaa your wrong there. also those games dont support them nothing does.

 

im sorry if i offended you and made you feel like you wasted your money which you did... because by the time a quad core will give any kind of performance boost urs will be inferior and outdated...

 

pwned  

white45e

wow, ummm you have no idea where I live do you, quad cores are 400 bucks here buddy, hardly a waste of money. i'd hit you up with a plane ticket to indonesia, but i switched the flight to mozambique.....gg.jfelisario

[QUOTE="white45e"]well i dont know where you live but in canada quad cores will cost me about $1300 with tax and everything about $1500.... so yeaaaa your wrong there. also those games dont support them nothing does.

im sorry if i offended you and made you feel like you wasted your money which you did... because by the time a quad core will give any kind of performance boost urs will be inferior and outdated...

pwned

ZBoater

[QUOTE="jfelisario"]wow, ummm you have no idea where I live do you, quad cores are 400 bucks here buddy, hardly a waste of money. i'd hit you up with a plane ticket to indonesia, but i switched the flight to mozambique.....gg.white45e

well ok they MAY support them but that doesnt mean they get any benefit simply because a dual core doesnt get pushed the limit yet and wont for a few years.white45e

[QUOTE="white45e"]well ok they MAY support them but that doesnt mean they get any benefit simply because a dual core doesnt get pushed the limit yet and wont for a few years.ZBoater

[QUOTE="white45e"]well ok they MAY support them but that doesnt mean they get any benefit simply because a dual core doesnt get pushed the limit yet and wont for a few years.ZBoater

yea they turned 2 of the cores off and got reduced performance because each of the cores are weaker then the ones in a dual core, quad cores for gaming is relativly new so this is to be expected they are just trying to sell you the quads they probly get paid to say such things... white45e

[QUOTE="white45e"]yea they turned 2 of the cores off and got reduced performance because each of the cores are weaker then the ones in a dual core, quad cores for gaming is relativly new so this is to be expected they are just trying to sell you the quads they probly get paid to say such things... ZBoater

He also doesn't seem to understand that when games become multithreaded, a 20% increase of performance is the max for dualcores. Quadcores on the other hand will see much larger increases for each additional core. 

[QUOTE="white45e"]yea they turned 2 of the cores off and got reduced performance because each of the cores are weaker then the ones in a dual core, quad cores for gaming is relativly new so this is to be expected they are just trying to sell you the quads they probly get paid to say such things... ZBoater

[QUOTE="white45e"]yea they turned 2 of the cores off and got reduced performance because each of the cores are weaker then the ones in a dual core, quad cores for gaming is relativly new so this is to be expected they are just trying to sell you the quads they probly get paid to say such things... ZBoater

[QUOTE="ZBoater"][QUOTE="white45e"]yea they turned 2 of the cores off and got reduced performance because each of the cores are weaker then the ones in a dual core, quad cores for gaming is relativly new so this is to be expected they are just trying to sell you the quads they probly get paid to say such things... r3351925

mister i have said this everywhere that the quad cores are a crude form of 2 C2D stuck together, but still they are SUPPOSED to work TOGETHERsaifiii

[QUOTE="saifiii"]mister i have said this everywhere that the quad cores are a crude form of 2 C2D stuck together, but still they are SUPPOSED to work TOGETHERZBoater

Everest Ultimate Edition 4.00

Guess who is the fastest one in CPU intensive benchmarks...

Everest essentially showed us that the difference between QX6700 and QX6800 is less than those physical 266 MHz that divide them, but performance difference between these four could not be any greater. For a synthetic test such as this one, there really is no doubt about where these four processors are in the food chain.

PCMark05

This synthetic test only goes to show that Kentsfields rock the place. File compression and decompression is one especially impressive result.

Cinebench 4.5

Professional software eats all the cores you can give'em

Cinebench is a well-known customer here; a benchmark based on Cinema 4D software from Maxon. We can see from the results that quad-core fares well, especially given the fact that with four cores you get 3.22x speedup from a single-core one, and with dual-core you will get up to 1.84x. Yours truly really wonders what kind of performance and CPU speedup index will have upcoming quaddie from AMD, illusive Barcelona core.

Modo 203

A saying goes: "time is money". With quad-core CPU, you are double the fast as the dual-core one

Moreover, you can see how things changed, since both QX6700 and QX6800 just blew duallies and Opteron system out of the water. NetBurst was indeed NetBust, but this is something different. If you are a modeller or have to render a lot, this CPU could be your lifesaver. Then again, you could be considering new Clovertown powered Mac Pro - Fruity Company claims that system is great for Modo.

Xmpeg 5.0.3.

For video encoding, we took the complete DVD with Lord of the Rings: Return of The King Special Edition and encoded it Divx format, using MP3 for sound format at 192kbps. This is probably most often used combination, and we wanted to see how the CPUs would fare with it.

You can see from the results that quad-core setup is not very superior to dual-core one. Sure, QX6800 just eats frames with an average of 189fps, but for that price, you could buy three E6700s that will encode the same segment at 144fps. Extreme Edition of yesteryear, X6800 encoded file with 155fps, while QX6700 stayed between the two with 176fps. Since every second counts for 29.9fps, you can imagine how much time it takes to encode an almost 5-hour movie. With 189fps, every second of processing time will count as 6.3 seconds of movie time, or six times faster than real-time, which is very different from only two years ago, when a similar feat would be, achieved 2-3x faster than the movie time itself. Still, 1000 dollars will give you a 5hr movie in less than 50 minutes, while E6700 will do the same job in 65 minutes. Not exactly a quantum leap ahead.

F.E.A.R.

With Fear, we saw that E6700 is beating QX6700 by a very small margin, while QX6800 had a miniature advantage over X6800, so the result is tied in this game. This is the game where you would see a greater jump in performance by buying an E6700 and overclocking it, and putting the second 8800GTX in the board rather than having an enthusiast CPU.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
and these are not better results:P

i really don't know why u said quad cores are 1300 $$ got to this website and pick one up for 800-900 bucks

www.canadacomputers.com