How many CPU cores do games need

[RavenXXX2]

Interesting article with ATI and NVIDIA cards benched against each other to see how many CPU cores you need to run games efficiently.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2010/07/05/how-many-cpu-cores-do-games-need/1

Four CPU cores appears to be plenty, and it's upgrade and multi-task proof. If you do leave your torrent client MSN on or music playing in the background, for example, then the game will still have enough spare resources not to chug.

One important conclusion to take away though is that you don't need a 6-core CPU. They do nothing for your games, so unless you already find a quad-core slow in other applications or your day-to-day PC use, don't upgrade for this reason.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Yeah this is the GPU section, see the difference.

 

[RavenXXX2]

The article is about GFX card performance with CPU cores in games which is all relevant to the GFX card forum.. now if you have nothing constructive to say about the article, please don't spam the thread.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Please stop the spam, games are relevant to GFX cards are they not, stating the obvious but you need a GFX card to play PC games so I think this article is very relevant to people who browse this forum section regularly and do not go in to the CPU section much.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Right I'm on the verge of RTM, all you have done is Spam this thread, it's not harming anyone and it's in a totally different sub-section to the the other thread and it IS relevant to GFX card owners and that's why it is posted here, for those that visit this board not the CPU section.

RTM'd either the thread will be deleted or cleaned up, so let it be.