Core 2 Duo scaling in gaming.

[looqas]

Interesting to read if the hertz are worth it.

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...u_bottlenecks/

[solofowaffles]

Hehehe i laugh now at all of you with your e6600 and such,e6300 ftw!

[looqas]

Hehehe i laugh now at all of you with your e6600 and such,e6300 ftw!

Keep in mind that CPU does not be a bottleneck unless you have a good graphics card. Also the gains are very real. The Scaling was done with E6700 is much faster than the E6300 since has only 2MB of L2 whereas E6700 has 4MB. This brings more food for the table and makes the gap even bigger between your pick FTW and E6700.

[solofowaffles]

Keep in mind that CPU does not be a bottleneck unless you have a good graphics card. Also the gains are very real. The Scaling was done with E6700 is much faster than the E6300 since has only 2MB of L2 whereas E6700 has 4MB. This brings more food for the table and makes the gap even bigger between your pick FTW and E6700.

Well i played crysis on high at a constant 40 fps so nothing wrong here.

[signa]

im still crushing you with my 8800gtx-oc.

hell you couldn't even kill me when you guys were trying to base rape me on surge.

[solofowaffles]

im still crushing you with my 8800gtx-oc.

hell you couldn't even kill me when you guys were trying to base rape me on surge.

camper

[Death Merchant]

if they would have included supreme commander youd see that a few games are cpu limited

hell even my 3ghz Q6600 sweats when the action really gets going and thats the only game where i get more than 60% cpu usage on my third and fourth core

but for FPS's graphics card is way more important has been that way since i started looking at hardware

BTW there was even less of a difference between top and lower middle end cpu's before the core 2 duo's arrived, and amd 3200+ (same price as e6300)would come within 5-10% of an amd 4000+ (similar price as e6850/q6600)

[camper.]

The CPU does a lot more than a bit of artificial testing will show. For me, AIX on SP 64 bots is almost completely unplayable (10-15fps) on some maps with the CPU @ 1.86GHz but upping it to around 3GHz (2.8 is the real spot) will make it playable. It really helps to have a CPU up to the task, just one less thing to worry about.

[looqas]

Here's a quite big 17 dual core processors shootout review available at http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...-shootout.html

Interesting are the price / gaming performance charts.