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