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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

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    ...hmm...ya that is one thing...all i wanted to say was that even for the number one, top game rite now...most demanding....requires a 2.2Ghz core 2 Duo....nothing is more demanding than that game....it should take sometime for games to come to a quad core as a requirement...which does not seem likely...at the rate these things are coming out...by the end of next year, everybody would be recommending a quad core for gaming lol....

    EDIT : Didnt name the game mystery...lol..Crysis...
    it might say it requires only core 2 duo 2.2ghz but crysis will eat whatever you throw at it and keep on begging for more

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    ya ur rite...there is nothing we can do...but just keep buying new processors every year and a half, or two years maybe....im starting to think console boyz are better than us...atleast their PS3 or Xbox stays the same for 4-5 years....and they get it for what? $400? ....
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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    The XBOX and PS3 machines are specialised and optimised for games - and the upgrade cycle is driven by the hardware manufacturers to some extent - while the games machine development is static, games writers will write for that platform. The speed of development is driven by competition between the games console manufacturers - but when PC games start appearing that can't be ported to a games console, or are better than aa games console, then another round of development will take place and we will see a PS4 and YBOX (or Zbox3)

    As someone said - a general user (ie not a gamer) can expect a machine to last 5 years (I still use a 1.1GHz AMD Socket A Athlon that I built in 2000 - and only now thinking about replacing it - but I don't play on line games)
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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    A couple of friends of mine work in the gaming industry.
    One of them turned up at the pub the other month, frothing about an EXPO he'd just been too. He said that it was industry only, so he was there for work (lucky sod).
    There was a display stand there of a certain game, which the developers had recoded to run multi-core.
    On a dual core, there was a room with 200 headcrabs onscreen at once (all AI).
    On a quad core, there was a room with 500 headcrabs onscreen at once (all AI).

    A. guess the game.
    B. how many headcrabs can your machine support onscreen at once?

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    Quote Originally Posted by Buzzsaw View Post
    A couple of friends of mine work in the gaming industry.
    One of them turned up at the pub the other month, frothing about an EXPO he'd just been too. He said that it was industry only, so he was there for work (lucky sod).
    There was a display stand there of a certain game, which the developers had recoded to run multi-core.
    On a dual core, there was a room with 200 headcrabs onscreen at once (all AI).
    On a quad core, there was a room with 500 headcrabs onscreen at once (all AI).

    A. guess the game.
    B. how many headcrabs can your machine support onscreen at once?
    Headcrabs... hmm, Half life 2...? although even my crappy old computer can handle HL2 with ease, so surely a quad core should be able to show 50000 headcrabs in a room

    An next week i'll be able to have 500 pet headcrabs in a room, if for some reason I wanted to...

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    Actually there are quite a few games that can make use of multiple cores, you need to look away from the FPS market and into the MMO market.
    mmo's tend to be far more reliant on cpu and a large chunk on memory than they are on the graphics card.

    City of Heroes has been optimised for dual core cpus for well over a year now (and generally it happly chews up a whole 1gb of memory by it's self)
    I'm going to be intrested in the differnce a core2duo makes over my current pentium D (currently I get around 90%/60% usage on the two cores)

    AutoAssault, although it's been shut down now used to thrash my Pentium D silly

    Tabular Rassa is another one that will chew up a lot of cpu across multiple cores.

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    Quote Originally Posted by Buzzsaw View Post
    A couple of friends of mine work in the gaming industry.
    One of them turned up at the pub the other month, frothing about an EXPO he'd just been too. He said that it was industry only, so he was there for work (lucky sod).
    There was a display stand there of a certain game, which the developers had recoded to run multi-core.
    On a dual core, there was a room with 200 headcrabs onscreen at once (all AI).
    On a quad core, there was a room with 500 headcrabs onscreen at once (all AI).

    A. guess the game.
    B. how many headcrabs can your machine support onscreen at once?
    Headcrabs = Half-life 2.....and my machine can support, at the moment, 200 Headcrabs on screen at one (all AI)
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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    I just bought a Core 2 Duo E6750 that should be adaquate for a bit (especially overclocked to about 3.2 GHz). Even though I haven't started building the system yet (I will be in about a week and a half), my current upgrade plan is soemthing like this:

    Fall/Winter '08: upgrade video card, likely to a GeForce 9 series card
    Spring/early Summer '09: change out CPU, mobo, and HSF for a Nahalem quad-core CPU, a compatible mobo, and another relatively cheap HSF.

    The rest of my components should last for years (4 GBs of RAM, X-Fi sound card, optical drives, etc.). Likely by fall '09 it'll be time to swap out my RAID 0 hard drives before one of 'em fails... But i shouldn't have to build a totally new system for a good 6-8 years, I figure; my case has plenty of expansion room.

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    Well my E6600 is going to last for at least 3 more years having already had it 1 year.. don't know about anyone elses

    I operate on a strict no upgrade policy

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

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    I operate on a strict no upgrade policy
    I operate on a bargain upgrade policy

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    Quote Originally Posted by moogle View Post
    I operate on a bargain upgrade policy
    Well there is that yeah lol I havn't actually turned my desktop on for a few weeks now

    been playing the occasional bit of COD4 on my laptop lol

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    still have to get that game. i hear its fantastic.

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    lol @ at no upgrade policy.....I hope my 3.0Ghz e6300 lasts a couple of "years" as well.... I plan to upgrade to 8800GT soon....anyways moogle....COD4 is very good, both single player and multiplayer...I loved some of the missions in single player...worth playing, its like a movie!
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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    Well when I read the box "most photo realstic game we've ever seen" from one of the magazines. Naturally I was like, Oh yeah?

    Then you play it and you're like.. oh.. yeah

    The best bit about it is it runs on any old rubbish hardware..including these weeeeeeezing old high end core 2's

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    Re: For how much longer can we stick to core2duoz?

    Yeah...well i wont say the most photo realistic, Crysis takes that away...but it is pretty close, and true, it will run on anything, playable....unlike Crysis.....that thing...aah forget it
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