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Apollox99
Joined: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:41 pm
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Location: In my house
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 Quad core. I just recently bought an Q6600 and I was wondering if it will run Cortex Command better since it's a quad. Also, should I overclock it to maybe, 3.0 Ghz? Thanks to you, bye.
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| Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:05 am |
 
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Grif
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Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:25 pm
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Re: Quad core. 1. No, and, 2. only if you know what you're doing.
It won't boost your performance because CC isn't a threaded application, plus they don't even make applications that thread to four cores anyways.
2. If you overclock, you void warranties. And if you're dumb, and do it wrong, you ♥♥♥♥ your computer beyond repair. So, only overclock if you actually do know what you're doing, and have gotten a third-party to confirm that, meaning that you or one of your friends confirming your ability to overclock does NOT count.
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| Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:09 am |
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ProjektTHOR
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Joined: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:05 pm
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Re: Quad core. Pretty much summed it up succinctly. Quad-cores are not cost-effective in the home/small business market yet.
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| Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:09 pm |
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striker121
Joined: Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:24 pm
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Location: In the house next door, eating your neighbors.
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Re: Quad core. Even Crysis only uses about 20 percent of first core and around 4 percent of the other cores...
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| Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:42 pm |
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Ophanim
Joined: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:33 am
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Re: Quad core. There's no way you can generalize that, dude. There are spots in Crysis that use little CPU and spots that use a good 70% of my 3.2 ghz CPU.
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| Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:53 pm |
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Alenth Eneil
Joined: Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:34 am
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Re: Quad core. My 2.6 tries to curl up and die if I make too much stuff move/explode/etc at once in Crysis.
CC tends to run fast whenever it has enough RAM.
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| Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:55 pm |
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Ophanim
Joined: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:33 am
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Re: Quad core. Yeah, RAM is CC's cocaine.
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ProjektTHOR
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Re: Quad core. Alenth Eneil wrote: My 2.6 tries to curl up and die if I make too much stuff move/explode/etc at once in Crysis.
CC tends to run fast whenever it has enough RAM. Its not a 2.6 dual-core I'm guessing? I have a 2.66 dual-core and it does a'ok.
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Apollox99
Joined: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:41 pm
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Re: Quad core. Ophanim wrote: Yeah, RAM is CC's cocaine. Oh, that's good because I also ordered 4 Gb of ram. 
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