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Nehalem for gaming?

jonneymendoza said:
no its a completely new architecture. i agree it maybe just 20% faster for gaming ONLY BUT since when do people build pc's just to play games? i dont. i use mine for other things such has encoding etc which will be over 50% faster then teh fastes quad core system out there. thats whats appealing to me and others. stick with your core 2 while us nehalems will be encoding stuff twice has fast as urs :)

pc is not just about gaming, its other things. if you want a system juist for gaming, you should be reading teh console forums mate:D
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Ah...I build my personal pc's only for gaming. Sure, I surf the web on it, do word processing, and occasionally burn a cd/dvd, but it's primarily for gaming. So people actually do this :p I have seperate pc's for other usage, like servers and media pc's.

I'm definitely going to be curious about the real world performance of Nehalem when it comes out, but I'm starting to feel more that for my needs (gaming,) I probably won't see a huge increase. Heck, I went from an e6600 @ 3.4ghz to a e3110 @ 4.2ghz, and did not noice much of a difference in gaming at the resolution I use (1920x1200.) I'm much more likely to upgrade my video card before I'll worry about jumping on a new, untested generation of cpus. Maybe when the Nehalem refresh comes out, I'll be a little more interested then.

Then again who knows, maybe Nehalem will turn out to be a huge upgrade for gaming pc's as well...you never know until it actually comes out.
 
yea thats true. for me my next build will be for gaming and music producing so a fast cpu will be one of my main priorities and so will a video and possibly a sound card(avoiding creative).

time will tell to see how great nealem will be
 
jonneymendoza said:
yea thats true. for me my next build will be for gaming and music producing so a fast cpu will be one of my main priorities and so will a video and possibly a sound card(avoiding creative).

time will tell to see how great nealem will be
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And that of course begs the question: Does newer mean faster for applications that don't take advantage of multiple cores?

I'm slowly leaning towards just building an E8500 based system and skipping Nahalem altogether. Heck the core of my current PC has lasted me about 5 years and can do almost everything I need it to except some of the newer DX10 games i.e., Crysis.

I don't like how there don't appear to be large gains from DDR3 and triple channel memory, yet it is absurdly expensive for the time being. I don't see the lower end 4 core 2.5ghz processor offering enough advantage (for gaming and other simple tasks) over a 2 core 3.16 ghz processor and yet a whole new system cost nearly 3x as much with the Nahalem. Maybe I'm wrong, but we'll have to wait and see for the benchmarking results.
 
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