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QUANTUM LEAP OR QUANTUM HYPE ?

Jakus

Jakus

Jakus

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Well Like many others was about to go Conroe :D
Due to Unavailability of the Cpu's and new range of Motherboards it's got me thinking !
From what I have seen around there seems little inprovement for a Gaming PC running 1600x1200 plus resolutions, Anyone Know different ?
Too many times have I spent lots of money to gain very little performance (sence the Giant leap to my first Thunderbird) the Good old days when a GFX card lasted more than 3 months !

Current System is AMD 64 4000 @2700 and X1900XTX, should I sit this one out and wait for the new AMD's and DX10 ?
 
Well, as you say, there would be very little difference at high resolutions. If you are happy with your current setup - leave it. If I were you I would wait, unless of course you have the £££s for it. :)
 
JAKUS said:
Happy :confused: It's that damm Male Gene that say's faster,faster, must go faster... :D
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:D

Well I really don't think at that res it will make much of a difference to gaming and I personally wouldn't upgrade just yet. Its your call. ;)
 
I think its definately a leap, although as previously stated, there is no need at this point to make a change up. Most enthusiast have an AMD CPU whether that be a 939 or AM2. Going over to Conroe is a jump that most should think hard about if they already have a decent performing rig.

On the market for a replacement? then Conroe it is....
 
CPU intensive games love it (Oblivion), so it would appear to offer some level of futureproofing as it places the bottleneck firmly at the feet of the graphics card.

Jokester
 
Every man and his dog knows that high res gaming is limited by the GPU and not the CPU. Buy a Core 2 Duo if you do CPU intensive stuff, buy a fancy SLI/Crossfire GPU setup if you do graphics intensive stuff. It's pretty simple really. Any half decent CPU in the last 12 months is absolutely fine for gaming when paired with a decent graphics sub system.

I'm getting a Core 2 Duo and I haven't played a game in months, I'm getting it for photo and video processing... and that it's the only sensible thing to upgrade from my 3GHz P4 with, the P4 will live on as my Duron 600MHz is finally retired.

A gamer with an AMD 64 4000 is the last person who should be buying Core 2 Duo in my opinion.
 
Jokester said:
CPU intensive games love it (Oblivion), so it would appear to offer some level of futureproofing as it places the bottleneck firmly at the feet of the graphics card.

Jokester
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Agreed.. thats why Im waiting for the next gen dx10 cards. Hoping for the same increase we have had over the last few years, double the speed of previous genereation cards. Greedily I want double the performance of the Nvidia 7950... please oh please!!!!
 
Thank's for the input Guy's

Decided to sit and wait to see what DX10 and Vista bring regarding the Games deal, By then we should have the arrival of quad core Cpu's etc..

In the mean time I will take advantages of the bargain AMD Dual core Cpu's to upgrade my HTPC :D

Cheers
 
Jokester said:
CPU intensive games love it (Oblivion), so it would appear to offer some level of futureproofing as it places the bottleneck firmly at the feet of the graphics card.

Jokester
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which roughly translates to buy more bits from OCUK ... :rolleyes: :D
 
JAKUS said:
Well Like many others was about to go Conroe :D
Due to Unavailability of the Cpu's and new range of Motherboards it's got me thinking !
From what I have seen around there seems little inprovement for a Gaming PC running 1600x1200 plus resolutions, Anyone Know different ?
Too many times have I spent lots of money to gain very little performance (sence the Giant leap to my first Thunderbird) the Good old days when a GFX card lasted more than 3 months !

Current System is AMD 64 4000 @2700 and X1900XTX, should I sit this one out and wait for the new AMD's and DX10 ?
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You're PC is no slouch, and should easily last another year, unless of course you have money to burn and have to be at the cutting edge.

In a year's time there will be the next gen of cpu's, Vista and DX10 cards, so imo its worth just saving now for a nice new uber system in 12 months. ;)
 
Digital Punk said:
In a year's time there will be the next gen of cpu's, Vista and DX10 cards, so imo its worth just saving now for a nice new uber system in 12 months. ;)
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Problem is upgrading doesn't work like that. Spend the money in 12 months time and while you're waiting for delivery you'll be reading reviews about whats around the corner in another 12 months.

I'm going from [email protected] / 7800GS / 2GB RAM [which runs Oblivion really well] to E6600 Conroe / X1900XT / 2GB GSkill RAM. Just waiting for availability and a decent MB to come out. However, I need another computer so it's justified but all this talk of quad core, SLI graphics with a third dedicated physics card and next gen gaming realism is already getting me going.

I've got into the pattern of doing a total upgrade every two years and then gradually overclock until the limits of stability get reached. It costs me around £500 a year this way which is pretty good value compared to smoking and other pastimes and I always get to play the very latest games with some level of quality. Perfect.
 
No I'm good now ! The rush of blood to the head has subsided :D
Sorting out (upgrading) my HTPC, August is busy for me Sept will slip by then maybe October/November time I will review the situation.....To Bloody hot for mucking around with PC's now anyway ;)
 
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