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| Thread ID: 75429 | 2006-12-28 22:59:00 | Wondering about this processor?? | Robisx (11658) | Press F1 |
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| 510539 | 2006-12-29 02:38:00 | NO, YOU ARE WRONG!!!! THERE ARE GAMES OUT NOW THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DC CPUS :angry NFS Carbon, BF2142 are 2 games that I have noticed use 80+% of my CPU and there is likely to be more. And plus You will find that doing other tasks such as video encoding etc use DC CPUs to their full advantage I run a 4400+ X2 and that is great, I have had no problems in the gaming department, YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE ON HERE THAT HAS A PROBLEM WITH DC CPUS :groan: Suggest you read the current "PC Authority". Their advice. "Don't hold your breath" The just released intel quad core. A quarter of a cpu. (for gaming). |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 510540 | 2006-12-29 02:41:00 | Suggest you read the current "PC Authority". Their advice. "Don't hold your breath" The just released intel quad core. A quarter of a cpu. (for gaming). Suggest you read the Nov 2006 PC World. :) Also i add that a SINGLE core of the Core2 is better than the latest pentium extreme (3.8ghz or what ever it is). Benchmarks dont lie |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 510541 | 2006-12-29 02:42:00 | Well logically if a game can only use HALF of a DC (single threaded) then it can only use a quarter of a quad core... :rolleyes: | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 510542 | 2006-12-29 02:45:00 | Just a thought about your overclock... have you stability tested using Prime 95, Memtest 86 and CPU Burn In to ensure it is actually stable and not the cause? | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 510543 | 2006-12-29 02:56:00 | Hi trinsic. So does this mean that in total the processor is running at 4.90 GHz? Yes and no. Yes because you have two cores on the processor so have double the amount of processing power you can use. And no because most of the time you would not be using both at the same time. And trinsic just because it is DC DOES NOT mean it is going to be better than a single core CPU... only if the game/application is multithreaded will a DC benefit I am not sure if this game is multi threaded or not... open task manager on the performance tab and play the game for a few mins and see what CPU usage you arre getting, that will tell Rainbow six doesn't support DC which is a shame. Reality is right though if the games not multithreaded it means you are limiting yourself to one core. But expect games to start using it next year. Some patches should allow support for them as well. Also I done a quick google search and found one other person with a dual core system having pausing problems in rainbow six :) Wait for patches to fix it up IMO. |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 510544 | 2006-12-29 03:00:00 | www23.tomshardware.com Benchmarks to back up my post :) |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 510545 | 2006-12-29 08:08:00 | It maybe that you have not set a higher cpu voltage because overclocking requires more voltage to the cpu or that your power supply is not powerful enough as it happens to me sometimes | JUST INSANE (6682) | ||
| 510546 | 2006-12-29 08:10:00 | dual core cpus can only unleash their full potential with new game patches that support dual cores | JUST INSANE (6682) | ||
| 510547 | 2006-12-29 08:23:00 | Thanks for the explanation there, trinsic. How does a P4 CPU with HTT differ from one which is duo core? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 510548 | 2006-12-29 08:28:00 | HTT is a code in the cpu which lets programs use different parts of the cpu but in benchmarking it is no different to a single core cpu. Which make HTT useless Dual core can take big advantages if the program code supports and nearly double speed of a single core however there could be increased latencey between memory access because of bottlenecks. |
JUST INSANE (6682) | ||
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