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#21
Jul 10 2009 08:46am
Quote (Eek @ Fri, Jul 10 2009, 10:27am)
First intelligent response. Thank you.

I'm actually surprised too, people at other tech forums have told me HT hinders gaming performance and i didn't quite believe it at first, so i had to test for myself. Well it obviously did but it didn't matter as much as it did compared to other people's benchmarks. My clocks probably helped. But nonetheless, a $475 rig is still pretty damn powerful. I'm also surprised how a 2 year old Quad is still holding up to the current gen parts :).


IMO we will see a day where HT matters for gaming, but its just not yet, there are some developers still making things that only need a single core, they need to advance and work on dual/quad core utilizing games, to actually make it useful to have more than two cores.

I was definetly impressed with older gen Q6700s ability to perform, but again I am still shocked at how well a cheap HD4670/Kuma rig when OC'd a bit can handle games (albeit Steam)

What does WNR stand for?

Is that just short for Will Not Run?

Because that would make sense on the Kuma rig, the settings seem a bit overboard!
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Jul 10 2009 09:04am
Quote (decoppel @ Fri, Jul 10 2009, 10:46am)
IMO we will see a day where HT matters for gaming, but its just not yet, there are some developers still making things that only need a single core, they need to advance and work on dual/quad core utilizing games, to actually make it useful to have more than two cores.

I was definetly impressed with older gen Q6700s ability to perform, but again I am still shocked at how well a cheap HD4670/Kuma rig when OC'd a bit can handle games (albeit Steam)

What does WNR stand for?

Is that just short for Will Not Run?

Because that would make sense on the Kuma rig, the settings seem a bit overboard!


Not really sure on the programming front, but I do remember reading an article saying how developers did originally start coding for HT back during P4 days. As we can see
HT didn't work out back then.. So the codes for abandoned. But if intel keeps HT implemented this second time around. The developers will do something about these virtual cores.

And yes WNR stands for will not run ;)
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Jul 10 2009 10:38am
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Not really sure on the programming front, but I do remember reading an article saying how developers did originally start coding for HT back during P4 days. As we can see
HT didn't work out back then.. So the codes for abandoned. But if intel keeps HT implemented this second time around. The developers will do something about these virtual cores.

And yes WNR stands for will not run ;)


Thought as much.

Still impressed it could run other games (albeit valve, again) with maxed out settings.

I'm happy with my purchase.

I'm waiting on a PII sale (whether its tri or quad) so I can elimenate my bottleneck.

Very nice again, on the benchies etc. I appreciate the effort!
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#24
Jul 10 2009 11:08am
The Core I7 still has obvious bang for the buck potential because of how much faster it is than the PHII's just your buck has to be higher :P

I would like to see some more ATI Cards simply because the gtx295 is so much more expensive than even 2x 4890 but obviously Eek you shouldn't have to buy any other cards :P

I am curious tho if you were to do your Oc'd C2Q setup in benchmarks with SLI enabled and then Just 1 card to see the performance increase/decrease
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#25
Jul 10 2009 11:36am
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The Core I7 still has obvious bang for the buck potential because of how much faster it is than the PHII's just your buck has to be higher :P

I would like to see some more ATI Cards simply because the gtx295 is so much more expensive than even 2x 4890 but obviously Eek you shouldn't have to buy any other cards :P

I am curious tho if you were to do your Oc'd C2Q setup in benchmarks with SLI enabled and then Just 1 card to see the performance increase/decrease


Meh, would be interesting... But I only Have the q6700 and 1x 8800gt laying around.
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#26
Jul 10 2009 07:17pm
im feelin the phenom
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#27
Jul 10 2009 07:22pm
weird
isnt css a single core game??
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Jul 10 2009 07:26pm
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weird
isnt css a single core game??


It's a source engine, so it's also very CPU dependent.

But tbh. I have no idea what happen to that benchmark.. The results are very odd.
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#29
Jul 10 2009 07:27pm
Quote (Eek @ Sat, 11 Jul 2009, 03:26)
It's a source engine, so it's also very CPU dependent.

But tbh. I have no idea what happen to that benchmark.. The results are very odd.


it called amd ftw...

pure ownage story, which Intel/nCrapia-newbs won't understand ;)
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#30
Jul 10 2009 07:28pm
Quote (Eek @ Fri, Jul 10 2009, 06:26pm)
It's a source engine, so it's also very CPU dependent.

But tbh. I have no idea what happen to that benchmark.. The results are very odd.


very
like you put fpx max to 500 on the amds
and only 300 on the intels
i bet ice payed you...
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