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27th Jul 2009, 16:00
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I was reading Carbon's post about CPU parts and he mentioned that getting anything other more then dual cores for gaming is quite useless. This makes sense as I haven't seen many games that utilize four cores. Now, that got me thinking as to why I see so many benchmark tests and pre-assembled gaming systems using the core i7? Is it just to show off, or is there something else?
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27th Jul 2009, 17:28
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It's just to show off. It's the "new thing" and so people buy it because of that. It's also become slightly more affordable and overclocks well on D0, but there is no advantage to non-threaded tasks like games. For a workstation it's a hell of a processor but it's not useful for games at all.
Also, as for benchmarks, TH and such pretty much have unlimited amount of cash and at least with a 3.2ghz i7 nobody can complain about some marginal CPU impact on the benchmarks or something. Could they use a X3 720 or E8400 and get the same effect? Probably.
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27th Jul 2009, 19:49
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sounds good. tnx
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