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Once they start making games for 8 cores I'm sure performance will improve.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
wtf http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=316458
Yep, they are exaggerating with the number of cores.Stimey wrote:
Once they start making games for 8 cores I'm sure performance will improve.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
wtf http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=316458
I don't even think most games are optmized for 4 cores.
yep but getting arse beaten by Phenom in games sucks.... why would I spend 800€ for new Nehalem setup when I can get Q9450 for 250€ and beat the crap out of the Nehalem in games...Stimey wrote:
Once they start making games for 8 cores I'm sure performance will improve.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
wtf http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=316458
I don't even think most games are optmized for 4 cores.
They've got time, they've got time...GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
wtf http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=316458
The Anandtech wall of text pretty much explains it. You will not need a better CPU than those out already if you go for gaming CPU. Nehalem is to compete AMD where they still beat Intel.Poseidon wrote:
They've got time, they've got time...GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
wtf http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=316458
-crosses fingers-
WTF? Seems Intel thinks the only reason we OC is higher clocks.Intel’s upcoming Core i7 processors will feature a turbo mode, as announced on Day 1 of IDF. Although not quite like the retro turbo mode button found on computers of the late 1980’s, the turbo mode on Core i7 will still result in increased single threaded performance. The technology is based on the idea of dynamically increasing the frequency of the CPU when not all the coreshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coree are in use, archiving higher single threaded performance when that is all that is required.
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One word: scalability..Sup wrote:
Yep, they are exaggerating with the number of cores.Stimey wrote:
Once they start making games for 8 cores I'm sure performance will improve.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
wtf http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=316458
I don't even think most games are optmized for 4 cores.
Welcome to Overkill! Would you like 24GB of DDR3 RAM with your 16 CPU cores?Sydney wrote:
Hah, you and me both mate.Bell wrote:
It was because of this CPU, and, nvidia's laughable attempt to get us onto the '9' series GPU that I descided to shelf my plan on building a new high end machine. I'll just be going with a fairly medicore one till christmas
Martyn
Next build for me will be the next generation CPU and GPU, with 4-8GB DDR3 RAM as well *drools*. (Ok, maybe the 8GB DDR3 is overkill )
And are my eyes fooling me, or are those 12 RAM holders? Does that mean that we can get 24GB RAM?
Nehalem is about improving HPC, Database, and virtualization performance, and much less about gaming performance. Maybe this will change once games get some heavy physics threads, but not right away.
Why? Most Games are about fast caches and super integer performance. After all, most of the Floating point action is already happening on the GPU. The Core 2 CPUs were a huge step forward in integer performance (not the least because of memory disambiguation) compared to the CPUs of that time (P4 and K8). Nehalem is only a small step forward in integer performance, and the gains due to slightly increased integer performance are mostly negated by the new cache system. In a previous post I told you that most games really like the huge L2 of the Core family. With Nehalem they are getting a 32KB L1 with a 4 cycle latency, next a very small (compared to the older Intel CPUs) 256KB L2 cache with 12 cycle latency, and after that a pretty slow 40 cycle 8MB L3. When running on Penryn, they used to get a 3 cycle L1 and a 14 cycle 6144KB L2. The Penryn L2 is 24 times larger than on Nehalem!
Lol, physics are being trasferred to the video cards anyway..Sup wrote:
Maybe this will change once games get some heavy physics threads, but not right away.
lol Anandtech wrote that not meDeathUnlimited wrote:
Lol, physics are being trasferred to the video cards anyway..Sup wrote:
Maybe this will change once games get some heavy physics threads, but not right away.
lol I know, I read it there too earlier. Just cut the quote tags off :d.Sup wrote:
lol Anandtech wrote that not meDeathUnlimited wrote:
Lol, physics are being trasferred to the video cards anyway..Sup wrote:
Maybe this will change once games get some heavy physics threads, but not right away.
I read somewhere that after GPU physics, they'd start working seriously on multithreaded CPU physics.DeathUnlimited wrote:
lol I know, I read it there too earlier. Just cut the quote tags off :d.Sup wrote:
lol Anandtech wrote that not meDeathUnlimited wrote:
Lol, physics are being trasferred to the video cards anyway.