To quad or not to quad ?

[Dicehunter]

Ok im a huge gamer and as a gamer im always looking for the next best performance piece to make my games look better and so im getting a core 2 duo 6850, but i was wondering if i should get a quad core ?

 

[JonAs]

For the price you cant go wrong, I had the same issue. worst it can be is Dual core in games for a while. GO QUAD =]

 

[::: CooliceT ::]

yep, for the price you cant go wrong,

im going quad soon as my funds go up,
if you dont like it, you can allways sell it later on

 

[VoG]

well if your sigs correct and you've got a [email protected] then i wouldn't bother getting either tbh.

unless your a supp comm addict i wouldn't bother with a quad just yet if your whole reason for getting one is your a hardcore gamer & that's all your gonna do with it. you might be unlucky & get a turkey that won't clock past say 3.2 - 3.4 ( there are no guaruntees when it comes to clocking ). as for the 6850 i don't see the point in that either, if you where coming from a low clock i could see the point.

 

[squiffy]

Vog says not worthwhile, stop throwing money at your PC. If you want to spend it, spend it elseware.

Unless you do lots of 3D rendering, video processing/encoding all day long.

Going from SC to DC is worthwhile, but at this present time a fast dual core is more than sufficient.

 

[V|per]

I'd agree with the above 2 posts, as you have a pretty decent clock with your current cpu, you aren't going to really notice any difference in games with a new cpu (unless, again as stated, you are a supreme commander addict..)

Chances are the quad will NOT hit 3.6ghz, so would be pretty pointless for current games, but if you also do a lot of encoding/vmware usage, then quad would most definately be worth it...

As for the e6850, 4ghz isn't a huge improvement over 3.6ghz in pretty much all games out there...

Save the money, get a 9800gtx when they're about, that'll improve your games...