Upcoming CPU's for gaming...

[MoggSquad]

I admit I love new technology and am pretty excited about the upcoming Pentium D Smithfield Dual Cores. I was really hoping that there may be gaming improvement with a dual core, but from what I have been reading dual core won't benefit games much of yet.

So within the next 12 months which processors will be best for gaming? I know as of now the Athlon 64's are best in gamings, but what of chips coming out next year such as the Preslar dual core, etc.?

I supposse it's up to game developers to take advantage of dual core. I just wonder when dual core will really shine for games.

I forsee myself building my next rig within the next 12 months and am wondering what is up on the horizon that I should look for Intel or AMD for gaming. I would really like to jump on the dual core band-wagon, but I guess we'll have to wait and see for benchmarks.

 

[Dan_D]

Something I read today suggests that the dual core processors such as Presler will have a shorter pipeline vs. the Prescott. So if anything it would be better as a gaming CPU.

In the shorter term however I think that the Smithfield will not be better than the current Prescott for games. So the 3.6GHz 660 P4 processor or one of the EE's would be best.

 

[Talz]

I would wait until 1 maybe 2 months away from purchase before worrying about it. We can guess all we want but nobody really knows how the performance rankings will look in a year. Heck a year ago there were people predicting 64-bit revs of Prescott at over 4GHz for this point.

 

[needmorecarnitine]

So within the next 12 months which processors will be best for gaming?

Athlon FX series (unless Intel releases some faster Pentium M cpus with good chipsets to support them)