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Old 18th June 2006, 16:57   #11
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if you have a Quad SLI rig you are not going to play at 1600x1200, if you DO you wasted quite a bit of money; you have to find a good balance of resolution/IQ and your GFX and not buy an unnecessary fast setup if you don't plan on exploiting its power, if you do experience a CPU bottleneck you have either an OLD cpu <2Ghz or you are running at resolutions where the extra speed of a faster CPU don't matter anymore.

who cares if you have 80 or 140FPS at 1280x1024 in F.E.A.R. you won't notice the difference and both will play fluently; current and next generation games will still rely on a fast GPU for 99% for rendering each frame, the CPU has not played a large part in games in the last 2-3 years now and I don't see this changing with the continued push with higher resolution textures in game, more complex models, higher resolutions and higher IQ (AA / AF).

if you are a gamer either Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2 will suffice just fine; I would just go with a dual core because of the added bonus of having a 2nd CPU in windows to "play" with so you can burn DVD, encode WMV files and surf the web without delay; with a single core CPU you will notice slowdowns if you combine several of these applications.

games making use of Dual Core CPUs is all fine and dandy, but as it was proven before, you'll only notice the difference at lower resolutions and then again you are comparing 80fps vs 110fps;
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either A64 or Core 2 will be plenty fast for gamers; if you already A64 switching to Core2 will not give you any tangilble in-game boost; that's what I'm saying
I totally agree with that. If you have a blazing fast X2 or FX60 setup, you definitely should not upgrade for a while, since I don't think any games coming out are going to use the extra power any time soon. But, if you had to upgrade the day after Conroe came out due to an toasted CPU and mobo, don't you think a fast and cheap Conroe would be a smarter purchase than a high-end X2 or FX62?
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yes; and I don't dispute that I'm going Core 2 Duo too, S754 A64 3000+ has served its purpose
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Old 18th June 2006, 17:38   #14
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yes; and I don't dispute that I'm going Core 2 Duo too, S754 A64 3000+ has served its purpose
haha Same here. I'm going to retire my 3500+ and get a X1900 master card for some crossfire goodness.
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but your HDD will still be a limited factor....

a change would be great
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flashdrive with high transfer speeds at low prices and we are good to go
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any time soon ?
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Old 18th June 2006, 17:56   #18
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if "soon" is 5 years... yes. If "soon" is 2006, no way.

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