How long will C2D's be good for gaming?

[HEADRAT]

Well I bought my S939 AMD 4400+ back in August 2005 and it's still fine and I play in high resolutions due to owning a Dell2407

HEADRAT

 

[sajtion]

there hasn't been a single game for dual core processor let alone quad core and this is mainly because it's very hard task for developers to do with increasing costs and development time. i image only worthwhile games will be made for dual core processor i.e. ut2007, call of duty some console ports which you know will sell near or 1 million copies and there will always be games like crysis who will push the boundaries but all of them are only small percentage of overall pc games. the middleware games market is always going to make games for pentium 3, 4, athlon xp machines even years from now because they have decided to stick to this particular specification just like consoles because it suits their budgets

 

[rezza]

there hasn't been a single game for dual core processor let alone quad core and this is mainly because it's very hard task for developers to do with increasing costs and development time. i image only worthwhile games will be made for dual core processor i.e. ut2007, call of duty some console ports which you know will sell near or 1 million copies and there will always be games like crysis who will push the boundaries but all of them are only small percentage of overall pc games. the middleware games market is always going to make games for pentium 3, 4, athlon xp machines even years from now because they have decided to stick to this particular specification just like consoles because it suits their budgets

I dont agree with "the middleware games market is always going to make games for pentium 3, 4, athlon xp machines even years from now because they have decided to stick to this particular specification just like consoles because it suits their budgets".

All the hit games from the last 3/4 years are unplayable i.e the pentium 3, 4 and athlon xp machines were providing very low fps in games even at settings in the mid. These include:

DOOM 3
HL 2
Far cry
+ others

The industry moves constanlty. If the processor market is gonna move to multi/quad then so will have to appplications. Not in a year's time but 3,4,5 years down the line thats how it s gonna be just like the makers of doom 3 and far cry didnt make the game for pentium 3s.

 

[MikeHunt79]

^ HL2 runs fine on my athlon XP

I doubt it would run on on a P3 tho.

A c2d is tempting, but I'm gonna soldier on with the Athlon for now

 

[sajtion]

All the hit games from the last 3/4 years are unplayable i.e the pentium 3, 4 and athlon xp machines were providing very low fps in games even at settings in the mid. These include:

that's due to the graphics drivers from ati and nvidia, they optimize their drivers for latest games so it's only natural older games lose in performance. you will also find if you play those games with older cards you would have higher fps becasue developers optimize it for video cards of that day.

 

[Gashman]

I dont agree with "the middleware games market is always going to make games for pentium 3, 4, athlon xp machines even years from now because they have decided to stick to this particular specification just like consoles because it suits their budgets".

All the hit games from the last 3/4 years are unplayable i.e the pentium 3, 4 and athlon xp machines were providing very low fps in games even at settings in the mid. These include:

DOOM 3
HL 2
Far cry
+ others

The industry moves constanlty. If the processor market is gonna move to multi/quad then so will have to appplications. Not in a year's time but 3,4,5 years down the line thats how it s gonna be just like the makers of doom 3 and far cry didnt make the game for pentium 3s.

as far as i have noticed doom 3, half-life 2 and far cry all play perfectly fine on athlon XP and pentium IVs with more than playable frame-rates, stop forgetting to mention that GPUs are usually the limiting factor in most games barring a few, far cry benefited from better GPUs, as does half life and doom, supreme commander would play on XP or pentium but not as well as athlon X2 or C2D, CPUs aren't made redundant nearly as fast as GPUs