Any good for gaming?

[Kornowski]

Hey,

Do you guys know if a Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 2 x 1.86Ghz would be any good for gaming... I know the E6600 is but there's no way I can afford it... Would this do the job?

Thanks for the help, Danny

 

[Dual_Corex2]

Hey,

Do you guys know if a Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 2 x 1.86Ghz would be any good for gaming... I know the E6600 is but there's no way I can afford it... Would this do the job?

Thanks for the help, Danny

Yes it would. Even being 1.8ghz it still beats AMD. That one i think the FX-62 can actually beat by a small margin, but OC it and youll surpass the FX by far.

 

[Kornowski]

I won't be overclocking it I don't think... Will it improve my games then, so I'll be able to have the settings higher?

 

[Ben]

I won't be overclocking it I don't think... Will it improve my games then, so I'll be able to have the settings higher?

Definitely, But your games would also rely on the graphics card and RAM. Don't forget that

 

[diduknowthat]

I won't be overclocking it I don't think... Will it improve my games then, so I'll be able to have the settings higher?

somewhat higher, but games are very dependent on graphics cards.

 

[lovely?]

yes dont expect to surpass by very far if you have a large bottleneck in your system, because your computer is only as good as its worst part. so if you had a qx6700, and an x700pro, you would only see the perfrmance of the x700pro, because it can only go so fast

 

[Kornowski]

I have a Radeon X850 Pro AGP, Which is a pretty good card and 1GB of RAM, so it should be fine I guess?

 

[jedijeff123]

any core 2 duo (6X00 series) is great for gaming

 

[Kornowski]

Ok great, thanks for the help

 

[Kornowski]

Would this be better than the E64300?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...9kdWN0X3NwZWNpZmljYXRpb25z&product_uid=111290

 

[diduknowthat]

Would this be better than the E64300?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...9kdWN0X3NwZWNpZmljYXRpb25z&product_uid=111290

Nope, the E6300 should be still better.

 

[PohTayToez]

Remember, the clock speed is next to irrelevant when comparing dual core and single core. While the dual core may have a much lower clock speed, it will often perform much faster.

 

[Kornowski]

Ok, Cool, Thanks for the help, I'll go with either the E6300 or the E6400 depending on which one I can afford...

 

[Dual_Corex2]

The Semprons are crap, those are the reject AMDs. Dont buy one!

 

[Dual_Corex2]

Remember, the clock speed is next to irrelevant when comparing dual core and single core. While the dual core may have a much lower clock speed, it will often perform much faster.

Very seldom does that happen with gaming, unless the game uses a dual core patch. I dont know a whole lot of games that do.

 

[Kornowski]

So your saying that a Dual Core could perform worse when gaming?

 

[Core2Conroe]

Very seldom does that happen with gaming, unless the game uses a dual core patch. I dont know a whole lot of games that do.

most games that are coming out now and in the rest of 07 utalize dual if not quad core...

 

[Kornowski]

Ok, So it may not be that much better in the older games but in all of the new ones it'll be great?

 

[Core2Conroe]

well, performace per clock is still going to be much better then other crap...

example...

1.83GHz Core 2 Duo E6300
2.4GHz 4000+ San Deigo

reasons for choice: Both have 1MB per core

in a basic single core application, the Core 2 Duo will perform slightly better then the A64, just because it has better architecture..

now, in a game, AFAIK the Core 2 Duo is still better...

 

[Kornowski]

Cool, So Dual Core is allways better then...
P.S. Would you recomend the £6300 as I'm thinking of getting it?