Quad core for gaming

Problems in gaming with dual core? Never heard of that before.

The power of quad core isn't being really used in games yet (only a small list of game would take advantage with the quad core CPU) - heck, games still can't use all the power of dual cores CPUs.

You might see a small/very small performance increase with quad cores, but it also depends on your RAM and graphics card as well.

I agree, with the above, quad core is not really necessary at the moment.

I've got an C2DE6600 and an 8800 GTX. Believe it or not at standard clocks the CPU bottlenecks the 8800 but I overclocked the 2.4 E6600 to 3.6ghz and now the 8800 GTX gets all the processing power it needs to play pretty much any game on the market at max.

A Q6600 isn't that much more expensive than the E6600 so if you going to be upgrading anyway then its a worthy purchase, but if you already have dual core then you don't really need quad.

Problems in gaming with dual core? Never heard of that before.

The power of quad core isn't being really used in games yet (only a small list of game would take advantage with the quad core CPU) - heck, games still can't use all the power of dual cores CPUs.

You might see a small/very small performance increase with quad cores, but it also depends on your RAM and graphics card as well.

TicTac8745

True but a high end dual core kicks the crap out of a quad core for gaming unless you have bought a qx6850.

Wait for the new range of 45nm processors before you buy a quad. A qx6600 has to be overclocked to get one core up to a speed of a e680 dual core ouit of the box. I see no game that utilises quads at this moment in time.

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Problems in gaming with dual core? Never heard of that before.

The power of quad core isn't being really used in games yet (only a small list of game would take advantage with the quad core CPU) - heck, games still can't use all the power of dual cores CPUs.

You might see a small/very small performance increase with quad cores, but it also depends on your RAM and graphics card as well.

ardylicious

True but a high end dual core kicks the crap out of a quad core for gaming unless you have bought a qx6850.

Wait for the new range of 45nm processors before you buy a quad. A qx6600 has to be overclocked to get one core up to a speed of a e680 dual core ouit of the box. I see no game that utilises quads at this moment in time.

You didn't look very far for games that use quad, Supreme Commander comes to mind. Also, when the majority of games are optimised for quad core and up cpus, will you prefer to have higher STOCK speeds or 2 extra cores?

True but a high end dual core kicks the crap out of a quad core for gaming unless you have bought a qx6850.

Wait for the new range of 45nm processors before you buy a quad. A qx6600 has to be overclocked to get one core up to a speed of a e680 dual core ouit of the box. I see no game that utilises quads at this moment in time.

ardylicious

Weeelllll, I wouldn't go as far as saying a dual core "kicks the crap" out of a quad core - true that dual cores come stock with higher clock speeds than quads, but I can OC my quad to 3.6GHz. A bit faster, maybe, but nobody's crap is getting kicked. :D

And you should look harder for games that support quad-cores. There's a couple already out and many of the big titles coming up take advantage of the two extra cores (if you have them).

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Problems in gaming with dual core? Never heard of that before.

The power of quad core isn't being really used in games yet (only a small list of game would take advantage with the quad core CPU) - heck, games still can't use all the power of dual cores CPUs.

You might see a small/very small performance increase with quad cores, but it also depends on your RAM and graphics card as well.

WhOOmpa260

True but a high end dual core kicks the crap out of a quad core for gaming unless you have bought a qx6850.

Wait for the new range of 45nm processors before you buy a quad. A qx6600 has to be overclocked to get one core up to a speed of a e680 dual core ouit of the box. I see no game that utilises quads at this moment in time.

You didn't look very far for games that use quad, Supreme Commander comes to mind. Also, when the majority of games are optimised for quad core and up cpus, will you prefer to have higher STOCK speeds or 2 extra cores?

I never mentioned supremem commander because it takes benefit when its in multiplayer. Hardly worth the money for that.

I have supremem commande and happily get 60fps with a e6850.

I am not saying no to a quad core i am just not interested in the lowest version out that needs to be overclocked. If your a noobie then don't do it. But if your talking about overclocking you can do the same with the duals at even higher clock speeds but why bother when all games run ahppily at 3 ghz???

Wait for x38 and the new series until then get a cheapie dual core if you can't wait.