BF2S Forums how does the c2d compare to other single core cpu's

C2D is pretty much the best performance for the price on the market.

You need to understand that core clock means nothing. It's all about core architecture. The reason you see these "2-3 ghz" game requirements is because the Pentium 4 processors were very inefficient and simply relied on extremely high core clocks to match the performance of an Athlon XP/64 running a 1 ghz slower clock. Performance is what matters, not core clock. That said, C2D is the best mainstream CPU on the market.

Last edited by Fancy_Pollux (2006-12-31 12:10:58)

just to clear up a few things, it's a laptop, so a mobo and cooling is kinda out of the question, besides it's not the C2D e6300, it's the t5600 one, so i guess i'm not that lucky

Last edited by [RFW]Xenomorph (2006-12-31 12:31:37)

[RFW]Xenomorph wrote:

just to clear up a few things, it's a laptop, so a mobo and cooling is kinda out of the question, besides it's not the C2D e6300, it's the t5600 one, so i guess i'm not that lucky

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html? … ;chart=166

EDIT: Changed the link for a slightly better benchmark.

Last edited by TheEternalPessimist (2006-12-31 12:37:44)

What you're asking is not a simple thing - different applications, even different games, will treat single core processors differently to multi-core processors.  For example, Quake 4 will make better use of a multi-core cpu than a single core, because of the way it's been designed.  However, BF2 won't.  Since a multi-core cpu generally has less processing power per core than a single core processor, BF2 would actually work better on the 3800+ than the 3800+ X2.

And there's almost nothing around that will make use of all four cores on the Intel Kentsfield or AMD 4x4, yet, so don't be wasting your money on those unless you're heavily into Folding @ Home and have money to burn.

Kmarion wrote:

Let me put it this way. I have a P4 EE 3.73 running @ 4.52. My other C2d @ 2.93 smokes it, big time.

I hate you for being rich.

Stormscythe wrote:

cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Let me put it this way. I have a P4 EE 3.73 running @ 4.52. My other C2d @ 2.93 smokes it, big time.

I hate you for being rich.

I don't hate him. For he might happen to give me his "spare" system instantly. <prays>

Oh, nothing happens?

Grml.

Actually I think my girlfriend has claimed it. Thats a whole lotta power for just checking mail and shopping online..lol. Actually, it is now my media PC also. I use it to record TV shows, burning dvds, music, pictures, etc.

i have the same proc in my lappy as well and it is way sufficient for games (even though it will usually fail the min required hardware test). you should be ok