#26 – Question/Answer: Best Gaming CPU (Dual or Quad Core)
What the best CPU for a gaming computer system, dual core or quad core? If you want to save a few bucks, playing are current/older games and you are not worried about upcoming games go with a Dual Core CPU. If however, you want to future proof your purchase than go with a Quad Core CPU. There are upcoming games that will utilize all four cores.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
core i9 only for inter servers not for pub….. i recommend core i7 (best for gamers)
February 27th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Far Cry 2 ran excellently on my single core Pentium 4.
February 27th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Nah man, dexacore.
February 27th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
@airsoftguy85rocks Yeah, just look up Core i9. Though I highly doubt you’re going to find much use out of it unless you do some hardcore video editing or encoding.
February 27th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
omg!! there’s gonna be a hexacore cpu?
February 27th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
I guess that means the upcoming Core i9 is the way to go. Hexacores are the future of standard enthusiast gear!
February 27th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
hexagon core.
February 28th, 2010 at 12:53 am
odaaroo yes it does… for example if you want to ALT+tab out of the game and check email, chat, etc
… then come back on your game with ease
February 28th, 2010 at 1:35 am
wrong
February 28th, 2010 at 2:18 am
Future proofing is fairy tale mates! They’ll keep reaching after yr pockets every year!
Games use GPU maily and NOT the CPU as much after .all
Intel E8400 coupled with a good GPU is no less performer than a Core i7 Extreme edition
February 28th, 2010 at 2:35 am
more cores is the way to go
February 28th, 2010 at 3:11 am
i got a c2d e7300 & a good cooling solution.
then clocked it to 3.7*ghz
even if there are a few good multi-threading games in the next 12months the majority are not, its not worth the performance hit of lacking the single thread speed, or the extra cost.
February 28th, 2010 at 3:32 am
@shoeb2015 Not really. Crysis takes 2gb +/- 500mb
But still if you run shitload of programs while playing more ram will do better.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:21 am
upgrade as follows which ever suits ur budget
core2 duo e8600- $160
core 2 quad q9505-$239
Ur mobo will not support the processor below but u can change ur mobo .
core i5 750 -$200
core i7 920- $289
keep ur qestions comming.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:56 am
Ya , know if u want to encode or decode videos while playing games / high multitasking go for 12 gig.
or
if u just want 2 play games like crysis or better then go for 6gigs of ram
February 28th, 2010 at 5:55 am
@shoeb2015 Yea i know it uses trible channel. But 12GB is useless for gaming unless you want to run 10 games at the same time. 6 is more than much!
February 28th, 2010 at 6:39 am
as u know core i7 use triple channell so u can opt either for 6 gigs of ram or 12 gigs .
u r wish.
February 28th, 2010 at 7:24 am
it does not depend upon the clock but on the stream cores, type of vram, memory bandhwidth , fillrate etc.
February 28th, 2010 at 7:42 am
it does not depend upon the clock but on the stream cores, type of vram, memory bandhwidth , fillrate etc.
February 28th, 2010 at 7:55 am
or just get a ps3 or xbox360 believe it or not
February 28th, 2010 at 8:05 am
get a quadcore dual? go and chop off half of your cpu if you want to be such a stupid ass.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:33 am
@shoeb2015 but te 5850 is clocked at 750MHz and that is even higher than the GTX285…
February 28th, 2010 at 8:47 am
hd5850 or gtx 275 both of them perform pretty same.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:56 am
@shoeb2015 My fren wants to buy a new GPU if it was you which will u choose in the following, Geforce: GTS250, GTX260, GTX275 / Radeon : HD 4850, HD4870X2, HD 4890 or HD5850?
February 28th, 2010 at 9:44 am
@shoeb2015 Just a additional, Budget High end, could be
Core i5-750/Core i7-860 [LGA1156]
ASUS / Gigabyte (P55 Motherboard)
WD Black 750GB/1TB
4GB/6GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz
650W/750W/850W PSU [Antec or Corsair]
Cheap: HD5850/GTX275
High End: GTX285/HD5870
100% Low Budget Mid/High End PC…