#26 – Question/Answer: Best Gaming CPU (Dual or Quad Core)
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Feb 27th, 2010 |
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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.
core i9 only for inter servers not for pub….. i recommend core i7 (best for gamers)
Far Cry 2 ran excellently on my single core Pentium 4.
Nah man, dexacore.
@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.
omg!! there’s gonna be a hexacore cpu?
I guess that means the upcoming Core i9 is the way to go. Hexacores are the future of standard enthusiast gear!
hexagon core.
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
wrong
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
more cores is the way to go
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.
@shoeb2015 Not really. Crysis takes 2gb +/- 500mb
But still if you run shitload of programs while playing more ram will do better.
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.
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
@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!
as u know core i7 use triple channell so u can opt either for 6 gigs of ram or 12 gigs .
u r wish.
it does not depend upon the clock but on the stream cores, type of vram, memory bandhwidth , fillrate etc.
it does not depend upon the clock but on the stream cores, type of vram, memory bandhwidth , fillrate etc.
or just get a ps3 or xbox360 believe it or not
get a quadcore dual? go and chop off half of your cpu if you want to be such a stupid ass.
@shoeb2015 but te 5850 is clocked at 750MHz and that is even higher than the GTX285…
hd5850 or gtx 275 both of them perform pretty same.
@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?
@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…