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Phenom II 940 BE or Q9450/Q6600?
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If your not desperate I would wait till September see what i5 core has to offer - Socket 775 is coming end of line when i5 core comes out.
Other than that you wont be disapointed with any of those chips, for gaming the graphics card will be more important in most circumstances.
Mentioned this on many threads but as an example even with my Phenom II 955 BE at stock 3.2GHz using a GTX295 on Crysis at Maximum Settings @ 1900x1200 res on 24" screen I still get 52fps.
Other than that you wont be disapointed with any of those chips, for gaming the graphics card will be more important in most circumstances.
Mentioned this on many threads but as an example even with my Phenom II 955 BE at stock 3.2GHz using a GTX295 on Crysis at Maximum Settings @ 1900x1200 res on 24" screen I still get 52fps.
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What board/setup do you have at the moment?
this
Drop this Muili GPU gaming then you must use an Intel crusade that you have taken up.
Oh & i'm allowed to overclock my AMD CPU as well.
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Oh I dunno...
AMD Phenom II X4 940BE @ 3.00Gig - running faster RAM
Q6600 @ 3.00Gig
2x 260GTX @ 625/1296/2200 in SLI running lost coast benchmark at 1680x1050 x16 AF x16 FSAA, all settings max - identical nVidia control panel settings on each setup...
AMD Average over 3 runs 146.97
Intel Average over 3 runs 179.15
OK its just one game, but the source engine is traditionally a good example of a CPU limited game.
End of the day if your serious about running a high end multi GPU setup then intel is going to be making better use of that system.
Your outdated on hardware & Games being tested & your one game test equals end all & be all has no creditability.
AMD 955 even against a i7 does well.
http://www.modreactor.com/english/R...Core-i7-920/Page-3-Performance-Stormrise.html
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Thanks guys. I already have a Q9450 on my main machine and want to build another for playing around with virtualisation. So I can get either another 9450/6600 or go for the 955BE. It looks like the 955 seems to get peoples vote. I would prefer to run this on DDR2 because I have a spare 8gb - will the 955 run ok on AM2+?
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Vantage is not a game..sorry.
The i7 has turbo so it will not be 2.66.
You can talk all you like but the results are what matters not your theories.
And Intel has the advantage with single threads over AMD & its been well known for a very long time from when the Core2 was born so your statement is void..
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What are you on? they clearly (and the performance difference scaling shows) that the intel is running at stock 2.66 without turbo.
Vantage is not a game... but I suggest you take a look at the DX11 spec multi threading support throughout the pipeline both CPU and GPU, also many games coming out soon and even some out now can use render threading to boost performance. ETQW sees a 30% performance boost enabling it on a quad core and approx 60% on i7.
The results only matter if they are relevant... yes intel has the advantage in single thread... clock for clock...
Vantage is not a game... but I suggest you take a look at the DX11 spec multi threading support throughout the pipeline both CPU and GPU, also many games coming out soon and even some out now can use render threading to boost performance. ETQW sees a 30% performance boost enabling it on a quad core and approx 60% on i7.
The results only matter if they are relevant... yes intel has the advantage in single thread... clock for clock...
Turbo is on by default.
Now you contradict your statement about AMD V Intel single thread.
DX11 & more of your theories about how much better it will be on Intel because of one old buggy game that favours Intel CPUS & has nothing to do with DX11. You got tired of your physx Crusade.
And a Q9550 is not an i7.
I was the one who posted the DX11 spec PDF threads on OcUK.
We will worry about how well DX11 games run on what CPU when they get here.
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