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I heard somewhere that a quad is better for the 8800gtx and above more so than a dual is this true, i heard that a core 2 duo chokes direct x 10's ?
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Quads and 8800gtx
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I think you heard wrong - or are confusing what you were told.
Core2Duo is more than good enough for todays games, especially when clocked to 3GHz+. Very vew of todays games can make use of both cores, and so quad is currently wasted for gaming (slightly). Once games become fully multithreaded then quad will show a big jump in performance.
CPU's tend to only bottleneck GPU's if you are playing at low resolution. But both Core2duo and a GTX are more than capable at playing high resolutions, and so any bottlenecking will be theoretical, and have little effect on actual gameplay. The only game that I'm aware of curretly which has a very demanding on the CPU is Supreme Commander. This game is apparently multi threaded and so does show improvements when using quad.
There are no proper DX10 games available yet - all benchmarks so far are done on dodgy patches, or 'demo' releases (as far as I know). The performance is limited mainly by poor drivers, poor implementation in the games/demo.
The Q6600 is at a great price, so if you want quad, then there is no reason not to buy it imo. But Core2duo will definately not bottleneck any existing games, and once DX10 games are available, then I'm fairly certain the 8800/2900 will be much more of a limit than dual core. If you want good DX10 performance you're going to have to wait until the next update of graphics card imo. None of todays graphics cards were released for DX10 performance, the only reason to buy them is for top DX9 performance. DX10 was included in the 8800/2900 as a marketting feature - I'd be very surprised if they ever offer good DX10 performance in any proper DX10 games.
Core2Duo is more than good enough for todays games, especially when clocked to 3GHz+. Very vew of todays games can make use of both cores, and so quad is currently wasted for gaming (slightly). Once games become fully multithreaded then quad will show a big jump in performance.
CPU's tend to only bottleneck GPU's if you are playing at low resolution. But both Core2duo and a GTX are more than capable at playing high resolutions, and so any bottlenecking will be theoretical, and have little effect on actual gameplay. The only game that I'm aware of curretly which has a very demanding on the CPU is Supreme Commander. This game is apparently multi threaded and so does show improvements when using quad.
There are no proper DX10 games available yet - all benchmarks so far are done on dodgy patches, or 'demo' releases (as far as I know). The performance is limited mainly by poor drivers, poor implementation in the games/demo.
The Q6600 is at a great price, so if you want quad, then there is no reason not to buy it imo. But Core2duo will definately not bottleneck any existing games, and once DX10 games are available, then I'm fairly certain the 8800/2900 will be much more of a limit than dual core. If you want good DX10 performance you're going to have to wait until the next update of graphics card imo. None of todays graphics cards were released for DX10 performance, the only reason to buy them is for top DX9 performance. DX10 was included in the 8800/2900 as a marketting feature - I'd be very surprised if they ever offer good DX10 performance in any proper DX10 games.
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