Quad core CPUs for gaming
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See here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/289?vs=363
Games are at the bottom of the list. It's certainly worth having a quad core CPU these days over a dual core.
Games are at the bottom of the list. It's certainly worth having a quad core CPU these days over a dual core.
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Hi there,
It really depends on the game whether a quad core is properly made use of. It requires the developers to code the game so it uses more than two threads for the CPU-intensive tasks, some do it better than others.
This means that in older games a dual core is often as good as a quad core using a similar design. However, increasingly games are making greater use of more cores - so having a quad core is well worth it if you want to keep your gaming system up-to-speed for some time to come.
At the moment the gaming CPU of choice is the Intel Core i5 2500K (alongside a Z68 motherboard so you can overclock the CPU). When Ivy bridge CPUs come out in a few months this position will be taken up by the i5 3570K.
It really depends on the game whether a quad core is properly made use of. It requires the developers to code the game so it uses more than two threads for the CPU-intensive tasks, some do it better than others.
This means that in older games a dual core is often as good as a quad core using a similar design. However, increasingly games are making greater use of more cores - so having a quad core is well worth it if you want to keep your gaming system up-to-speed for some time to come.
At the moment the gaming CPU of choice is the Intel Core i5 2500K (alongside a Z68 motherboard so you can overclock the CPU). When Ivy bridge CPUs come out in a few months this position will be taken up by the i5 3570K.