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Quad or Dual Core CPU?


michael

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Im also looking at upgrading my pc very soon.

I only have a 2.99ghz at the mo, pentium4, with 2gb of ram.

Was looking at buying something like this, with a case like this. A power supply. maybe 2 raptor drives, or cheetah drives. And 2gb matched pair ram. I already have a evga 7950gtx 1gb graphics card so that'll keep me going for a bit, its just the rest of the pc thats holding it back.

Ive got £600 to spend on it, anyone think of a better spec for that price?

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I use Quad Core 6700 cpu, 6gig 667mhz ram (I know, I should have gone for 800mhz!), 4 x 150gig raptors SATA, 1 x 8800GTX 768mb graphics and its yet to slow down when running 2560x1600 res games on full detail. But then I havnt tried the very latest games on it yet. Still playing SWG after 3 years lol

 

Was happy with 4gig ram when using XP Home (which only saw 3.25gig of that), but since "upgrading" to Vista 64-bit, which is such a memory whore, Ive increase to 6 gig

 

J

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The difference between dual and quad on an otherwise-exactly-the-same-spec pair of PCs was incredible when playing a bigass game of supreme commander. Looking at exactly the same 150+ unit scrap going on, my dual was experiencing slideshow bob, my friend's quad was at about 40fps. Bastard :D

 

Of course, SC CTD's all the time on long games rending it useless to play co-op but hey. Go quad. As things start to use it your investment will last longer than a slightly faster dual.

 

-Ian

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