intel quad or dual core

Do you choose Dual or Quad

  • Dual Core

    Votes: 10 25.6%

  • Quad Core

    Votes: 29 74.4%
  • Total voters
    39
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childsy_1985

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I've just been wondering wat other peoples preferances are towards wat core they coose when building a new computer. From the reviews and bencmarks I've read I gather that the dual core is faster for gaming and the quad is faster for multi tasking and such. However most people these days are all upgrading so they can get the best performance on crysis and I read somewere that using a patch crysis will make use of the quad core cpu making it faster than the dual core is this true. If that is the case, and you are building a computer specificaly for playing crysis maxed out, what chip do you go for?
 
Well, if you were building a computer for Crysis. I think you'd have to buy a Skulltrail Motherboard and two E8400's and crank them up to 4Ghz. :rolleyes:

But, I'd say, if you're building a computer now, Go Quad. There's hardly any different between them and Dual and in a couple of years (Or Months, knowing technology!), things will be aimed a 4 Cores.
 
You shouldn't worry about the cpu that much in Crysis unless your foolin around with the physics in the level editor. I forget what site i saw this on but a 1300$ CPU will only give you 2-5 extra FPS then a 200$ cpu. The GPU is what you need to focus on for Crysis if you want reccomendations just say so......
 
Kornowski said:
Well, if you were building a computer for Crysis. I think you'd have to buy a Skulltrail Motherboard and two E8400's and crank them up to 4Ghz. :rolleyes:

But, I'd say, if you're building a computer now, Go Quad. There's hardly any different between them and Dual and in a couple of years (Or Months, knowing technology!), things will be aimed a 4 Cores.
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Why would you bother with a skulltrail motherboard when at the moment games do not take advantage of the extra cpu and you only get a small performance boost. Also you wouldnt bother sticking an E8400, to see any real benefit you would need to run a QX chip.

There is currently a clear differance in performance between the dual and quad core cpu when it comes to gaming. I realise that gaming is mostly gpu but you can't ignor all the benchmarks and statistics that show a dual core outperforming the quad. Unless you are shelling out big $$$ for a QX chip I cant see how using a quad for gaming is any better
 
I'm using a dual core atm, e6550 standard 2.33Ghz to now 3.4Ghz. But

For future proofness, I would have to say go with dual core.
 
a qx9650@3ghz is going to beat an e8400@3ghz, and the e8400 wont work on the skulltrail motherboard(socket 771) 8400=socket 775
 
Kornowski said:
Well, if you were building a computer for Crysis. I think you'd have to buy a Skulltrail Motherboard and two E8400's and crank them up to 4Ghz. :rolleyes:.
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isnt it a socket 771?

im probably wrong. but thats what i thought.


GO THE QUAD!!! :D
 
well you'll need 2 of them. to make proper use of it. so thats 3800 for some pretty good bragging rights. well worth it haha :)
 
Tell me about it... it would be one hell of a private gaming server.


PLUS, to make things more interesting, you'll be playing something else at the same time while downloading other stuff on torrents. :D
 
Kornowski said:
Well, if you were building a computer for Crysis. I think you'd have to buy a Skulltrail Motherboard and two E8400's and crank them up to 4Ghz. :rolleyes:

But, I'd say, if you're building a computer now, Go Quad. There's hardly any different between them and Dual and in a couple of years (Or Months, knowing technology!), things will be aimed a 4 Cores.
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You can't use 2 x E8400 on Skulltrail, mobo is socket 771 ;)

Anyways, I'd go for Quad too. To me it's simple, it means more "power" I guess. :rolleyes:
 
ramodkk said:
You can't use 2 x E8400 on Skulltrail, mobo is socket 771 ;)

Anyways, I'd go for Quad too. To me it's simple, it means more "power" I guess. :rolleyes:
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What have I told you about embarrassing me in front of people, Omar! :rolleyes: LOL

Fiiiine. Use two Nehalems, or what ever it's called :P
 
I always preferred dual cores for the price and it gets the job done well enough. though the games i play aren't quite up to the crysis standard. never owned a quad core so i can't say personally what kind of performance increase it would have on crysis, but i'm sure it would be noticeable.

if you are on budget, you wanna buy a dual core and go all out on a video card.
if you can afford the quad and a nice gfx card, then you grab the quad.
 
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It depends on alot of things, if your gaming then an OVERCLOCKED E8400 will be better, such as 4Ghz. Of course a QX9650 at 4Ghz will perform just as well in games, the Q6600 is great for multitasking, but overclocked, it still wouldn't give you the same performance an overclocked E8400 would in gaming. Due to the architecture and the overclocking limits, two cores at 4ghz will outperform 4 cores at 3.5ghz when gaming.

But the CPU bottlenecking in games is mostly pointed to multiple card setups, otherwise you would not see a difference between a quad/dual core.
 
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