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6 Core gaming

Winwolf said:
uh oh a 6 core thread, prepare for Intel fan boy dump.
I'll never understand why this needs to be argued and im just going to quote bill gates "640K ought to be enough for anybody." or maybe it was "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer.". You get the point.
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Bill Gates never said that, it's a fabricated quote. The 640K limit was due to IBM for choosing a 16-bit chip that is limited to 1MB addresses, 640K for programs, 384K for ROM/Video. MS couldn't have used more than 640K no matter how much they wanted to (and they did want to.)

Anyways, I think a speedy quad core will last a while, but if you want to be prepaired for any titles that push the envelope as well as do multithreaded professional/work apps, then I would consider a 6 core cpu.
 
I'm not impressed by AMD's six core. Yet. Better for heavy multitasking and such than gaming at this point. Its still in its infancy though so maybe that will change with newer six core CPUs and game developer's advancements in design. I got a feeling the eight cores will quickly be the next big jump forward in CPU advancement and the six cores will never get fully off the ground developement wise and be quickly left behind. Time will tell though.
 
Skott said:
I'm not impressed by AMD's six core. Yet. Better for heavy multitasking and such than gaming at this point. Its still in its infancy though so maybe that will change with newer six core CPUs and game developer's advancements in design. I got a feeling the eight cores will quickly be the next big jump forward in CPU advancement and the six cores will never get fully off the ground developement wise and be quickly left behind. Time will tell though.
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6 core CPUs are going to stay around, but as chips with faults that can't run with all cores enabled. Depending on how AMD and Intel price them compared to 4 core and 8 core chips, they have a chance at being very popular.

As for the next set of 8 core chips being the next big leap, there isn't any reason to think that it's uptake will be any faster than the move from single core to dual core or dual core to quad core. Software is going to lag behind hardware development, especially on the consumer side, as it has been for the last decade. By the time consumer software(i.e. games) is able to take full advantage of 8 cores, Intel and AMD will have 16+ core chips out. The only chance of games making full use of the core count of the top-end chip out at the time is if we move completely away from rasterazation and switch to ray-tracing where every ounce of performance from the CPU will be needed.
 
scojer said:
I have my 965 Overclocked to 3.6, on stock cooling! I would go more, but I'm comfortable with where it's at.
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Don't be a little girl. I have the same processor and I'm at 3.8Ghz. OC moar!!!! :D
 
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