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No, I understand the point, the sentence lacked any coherence whatsoever.

Also, Source or it didn't happen.

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Here you go.
BCCHardware - Mobile @ m.bcchardware.com - Core 2 Duo vs Core 2 Quad

That's the first link i clicked on!

Look at the bottom...

When it comes to choosing a high-end processor, you must really think about what you are going to be doing with it. In terms of gaming performance, a Dual Core CPU will probably give you better performance and value today as dual core CPU’s are clocked higher and games can only handle one or two threads at once. Quad core CPU’s should excel in video editing, design, and pure mathematical calculations as more applications are multithreaded for 2 or more cores. With that in mind, we’ll take a look at how the processors compare in terms of basic specs.

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That's fair enough, I found this to do with Quadcore gaming performance, comparing a QX6700 and an C2D E6700 which said this:

Quote:

For the most part, you can expect the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 to perform like a Core 2 Duo E6700 in applications that use only one or two threads, but the QX6700 may prove slower in some cases due to additional bus overhead or bad thread management in Windows. Of course, when applications use more than two threads or more than two apps are running at once, the QX6700 will pull the tab back and pop open a can of whupass. We have some applications like that in our test suite, so you can see quad-core's true potential.

That potential, by the way, will almost certainly be more fully realized by future applications, especially games. Software developers know that multi-core processors are the future, and high-profile game development houses have been working on game engines that use multiple threads to handle various tasks. Heck, they practically have to given that the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 have multi-core CPUs. Doing this kind of thing well is by no means a trivial undertaking, but the general trajectory seems to involve spinning off threads for specific game elements like A.I., physics, rendering, and audio. Industry giants like Microsoft and Intel have been pouring resources into helping the conversion to multithreading happen, and I'm convinced that it will.

So, I guess yours would work better in current times seeing as you have more power in each core than mine which comes to an advantage in applications that are made to use two threads but if something was to use more than that, the Quad Core has the advantage. Which returns to the original question, isn't Crysis supposed to take advantage of Quad cores?

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Crysis is a game like Lost Planet that takes full advantage of quad core.

Within a year, games will need Quad cores to work excellent so you are safe if it comes to gaming but at the moment with games you don't.

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Well I don't plan on getting a new PC any time soon, I've got this 2 years min anyway.

Well anyhoo, will my PC be able to play crysis on V. High at an acceptable Frame rate, just so you know I'm getting Vista within a week.

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mmh, i have vista. In some ways its good but in other ways like gaming it sucks. Oke you have dx10 but there are ways to have dx 10 on xp. Fps will drop in front of your eyes.

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Do you have SP1? Every one else has been saying they've had no problem with any gaming.

And if you say FPS is low, how low, cause I'm used to gaming with like 13-20 FPS average.

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well i live in belgium, so i need to wait at the multilanguage pack.

Well, about those fps. Let's say, a friend of mine has the following setup:

C2D E6750 @ 2.66 ghz
gigabyte 8800 gt
msi motherboard
windows xp sp2

he plays crysis at high settings at 40 -30 fps

My setup:

C2D E6750 @ 3.2ghz (cooled)
evga 8800 gt superclocked (much higher and better than him)
gigabyte motherboard (newest)
vista home premium

so as you can see my specs are better than him.

I play crysis at high settings at 35-25 fps...

this because of vista...

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Hmm, fair enough. But as it goes Crysis is a very demanding game so you can't really judge an OS on how it does on a game like that, and whats the difference of 15 FPS gonna make.

but anyway, We need moar screenshots!

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If you game Prime, I've very surprised you're seriously using Vista. I would've thought you would have known Vista sucks for gaming... hence all the Vista flame over the internet.

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I wouldn't say Vista sucks for gaming, it is just that it is an unnecessary upgrade if you don't already have it.
Microsoft billed it as the "must have for serious gamers". Only problem is...dx10 is so ill-implemented all they have done so far is cripple the same effects in dx9, make the effects "dx10 only". These missing effects can be implemented through hacks & configs.
Take for instance, GEARS OF WAR. All they did was add anti-aliasing in dx10. WTF? A standard setting in dx9 games & its all of a sudden dx10 exclusive?
All my Crysis ultra high setting shots were taken with hacked configs.
If you already have windows XP, I wouldn't worry about it, since the next microsoft os is a few years off & dx10 has offered nothing new in terms of performance or implementation.

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Worried? lol.

Losing FPS just because you use Vista makes me cringe.