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Quad Core, any point ?

i personally think a lot of performance things inside windows are a product of fast ram over a CPU, when i heavily overclock my ram everythign loads so much faster.

Sooner or later we will all be getting quad, octo , dodecahedron etc Cores. But at the present duals are hte best. remember the transition from single - dual ? it will just be the same again from dual - quad =/
 
How long have we had the single core and how long have we had the dual core? If you want to see it in that way the dual core has a few more yrs in it yet,, but then agaim technolgy is moving so much faster then it was yrs ago when we had the single core systems. But saying that I only moved to dual core a yr ago, cos my trusty fx55 cpu was just starting to hold me back on the games front.
 
oh sorry i more ment, i remember buying my opteron 146 and there being a big deal of single core vs dual core and eveyrone saying a single core allthe way, higher clocks better than more cores etc etc but in the end the dual core was defo the way forward. but that was in the end, i feel only in the last 6-12months we have truly seen a good use of dual cores.
 
That's slightly different, as most people load out a single core easily. Do a spybot scan- slow. Virus scan- slow. Compress a file/music/video- slow.

But now you can encode music whilst doing other windows stuff and apart from HD clicking away (ideally on non OS HD) you couldn't tell the difference.
 
ah, well at the time very few applications used dual cores and i dont remmeber XP being good at using dual cores..... but ofc it got adopted and now dual core = the standard and quad core = the new tech.
 
When I moved from my [email protected] to a opty 185@ 2.8, The diff in 1 or 2 games was huge, even tho both cpus were running at the same speed.. For me jumping from dual to quad isnt worth it atm,, When I jump to quad, I want to see the same performance hit like I did going from single to dual core.
 
ah, well at the time very few applications used dual cores and i dont remmeber XP being good at using dual cores..... but ofc it got adopted and now dual core = the standard and quad core = the new tech.

Even so just because a app doesn't mean dual core it's worthwhile. Load out one core (ie a old app that doesn't support threading) on a dual and it's still responsive. Do that on a single core and you have to wait until that process is finished.
 
i thought i made myself clear. of course dual core is worthwhile NOW. About 2years ago, dual core was not much use, it took time for it to be adopted, i remember call of duty 2 being one of the first true dual core games. It is of course now 110% worht having at least a dual core and in time quad core will be the standard and octo core will be the future debate of quad vs octo Etc Etc.

Do you get me now? I am not trying to say dual core is not worht it!!!!!!!!
 
When I moved from my [email protected] to a opty 185@ 2.8, The diff in 1 or 2 games was huge, even tho both cpus were running at the same speed.. For me jumping from dual to quad isnt worth it atm,, When I jump to quad, I want to see the same performance hit like I did going from single to dual core.

yep i 100% agree, the time will come of course when the jump from dual to quad will be 100% worth it and 90% of programs and games will use quad.
 
Games that i play now that use All 4cores40%-60% cpu useage & are the only games installed atm funny enough.
GRID,DMC4,GOW,LostplanetEC-Colonies Edition,UT3 & not one RTS in the lot.
 
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im supprised about a few of them, how much ultilisation of your CPU do they take? ive got GRID and the DMC4 benchmark on my pc at the moment, i didnt realise they used quad core.
 
yep i 100% agree, the time will come of course when the jump from dual to quad will be 100% worth it and 90% of programs and games will use quad.

Basically stick with dual core untill it starts to let you down, then jump on the quad band wagon, like I I did when I made the change over from single to dual core a yr ago. You get a better bang for your buck doing it my way.:p
 
im supprised about a few of them, how much ultilisation of your CPU do they take? ive got GRID and the DMC4 benchmark on my pc at the moment, i didnt realise they used quad core.

look on the box of DMC4.
I edited my post.
My Vista cpu meter has a long time graph & some games still hit the CPU even when tabbed to the desktop to check.
 
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well i have a q6600 at the moment :P i got one last august, and part of me feels it was abit of a waste as it has been unneeded for most of htis year.

its good news that more games than i expected use quad core, i was supprised how well DMC4 ran on my pc, i could max without AA with my q6600 & hd2900xt.
 
8cores next yr umm,, that will take yrs b4 it comes the norm, cos quad isnt the norm yet, and cant see quad becomming the norm for 1 - 1.5yrs yet. basically
softtwere/games are yrs and yrs behind hardware in cpu terms.
 
8cores next yr umm,, that will take yrs b4 it comes the norm, cos quad isnt the norm yet, and cant see quad becomming the norm for 1 - 1.5yrs yet. basically
softtwere/games are yrs and yrs behind hardware in cpu terms.

Practice makes perfect.
But im not sure that games/SW has to be programmed to a certain amount of cores all the time to get a benefit once the code has gone multi thread.

LostPlanet colonies editions lets you choose from 4-1 simultaneously threads in the game menu.
 
ive only done basic programming, nothing which requires mutliple cores. But i wonder if the code in recent games is just scaleable, i remember readig a article about it a few years back about hte nightmares of doing it.
 
Yeah programming software/games to use multiple cores is vary hard todo apparntly, so if this is the case no software/games will be 100% true dual or quad core if its so hard todo,

edit: Like I said cpus are miles ahead of software.
 
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People have to remember not everyone upgrades every year i upgrade every two years or there abouts and so i went for quad as i felt this would give me a little more future proofing then going with dual again. This subject like all component subjects is very subjective pending on the individual user how many people here saying a quad is not necessary have a 4870 or gtx280 gfx card how many are getting a 4870X2 you don't need it but sometimes it is nice to have something new over what you have had.
 
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