Core 2 Duo is enough for now, just not later.

[evilpaul]

The CUDA/Stream stuff for GPU computing is really only useful in games for physics. The rest of it is mostly useful for transcoding video (if you want to rip a Blu-ray to iPod format or whatever). It's also pretty bizzarre how it's coded. I read some code that was C# and doing floating point calculations on a texture.

Although it's changing a faster dual core is pretty often faster in games than a slower quad core because games are generally poorly threaded. Doubling CPU processing power comes nowhere near doubling your framerate even when you're not GPU limited. Compare that to video encoding or 3D Studio Max/Photoshop/whatever and it is pretty apparent.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...us,2414-7.html

That's all pretty irrelevant though, because if you're upgrading you should be going with a Core i5 or Phenom/Athlon II X4.

There will be a Core i5 (or i3, I'm not sure really) that has an on package GPU, but it's performance is expected to be pretty awful and only 1.5x faster than Intel's current onboard graphics. It's also only dual core. The 6 core i7s are expected to cost ~$1,000, so I wouldn't hold out for them personally.

There's plenty of pretty looking cross platform games that run on PC and PS3. If you can run Crysis at a playable framerate I really doubt you'll be unable to play FFXIV.

I'd think the "different textures" on the PS3 probably means it'll use compressed ones since it only has 256MB of video memory.

[Kaisha]

Wait, I thought the PS3 only has 2 of its cores enabled? I recalled reading about it shortly before release about how power it is and that Sony will release firmware further down the line as "newer games" demanded them. Or has that all changed/gone out the window...

This is only for linux on PS3. We used to have access to 6 cores, but they limited it down to 2 with a firmware update for some reason.

[Celeras]

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. All comes down to how well the game is programmed on a multithreading level. Which is why this whole discussion is retarded without knowing the actual system specs.

Really has nothing to do with anything if you're going to talk technical about duos vs quads.. because quads already have the best overclock potential, and for the most part can be pushed to higher speeds much easier.

Games taking advantage of multi-threading is a bonus. Even if it doesn't, you can ride your 4+ghz clock speeds all the way to the bank.

[McGoonagle]

...and Intel has just announced a 48-core chip will go into production next year. (100+ core chips have been built as demonstrators.) Nvidia is talking about a 512-core graphics chip.

Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip

[Shuichi]

Well I currently have a Core 2 Duo on my Aion box, and will be building the other half a quad core for his FFXIV box. Luckily, the motherboard on my Aion box is quad core ready so a simple CPU upgrade shouldn't be super expensive. This is good news indeed.

[Psxpert]

I'm sure glad I know how to build a home PC. ^^ Core II Quad FTW!

[Kurokikaze]

...you seriously necrobumped this thread to post that?

Vote to ban.

[kmexe]

I just read over all the freaking thread only to figure at the end that it was a necro D;

[xopher]

I'm sure glad I know how to build a home PC. ^^ Core II Quad FTW!

Why would you limit yourself to a core 2 quad when i7s are out?

You may know how to build a home PC but you apparently don't know what the fuck you're doing.

[Katlan]

I'm sure glad I know how to build a home PC. ^^ Core II Quad FTW!

your a nub, and you make all low post count ppl look bad.. so stop posting

[Kawfee]

Fuck this thread, close and lock

[Cureslime]

Posting in trollnecro thread. You'll be able to play the game fine on low settings with any reasonable C2D system as long as your video card is adequate. If your system is so bad that it'd be better to upgrade everything at once AND you're too poor to do so then just buy a PS3.

If you are like most people and you are willing to spend around $1k for a new gaming machine you should look into the core i5 750 on the cheap end ($200 at very most) or the core i7 860/920/930 (930 when it comes out) on the more expensive end ($300 at very most.) If you have a Fry's/Microcenter near you you'll be able to knock up to $100 off those processor prices. LGA-1366 isn't worth extra $$ planning around right now except for very high end users.

There's really no benefit to "future-proofing" if you have the money now and you want a new computer. We're in a good place right now and things aren't going to improve considerably until the mainstream 6-core intel processors come out (retail at end of the year) and ze video card die shrinks take place (retail at end of the year if we're lucky.)

There really is no game a core i7 860 system with a Radeon 5850 can't run. The only thing worth waiting for right now is the price on 5850s to drop back to retail.

[Chakra]

http://www.memegenerator.net/Instanc...-new-topic.jpg

[Sonomaa]

That or they hired the masters of spaghetti-code designers, thus instilling inflated system requirements.

so the original FFXI team did the code for it?

[Lovian]

so the original FFXI team did the code for it?

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[Cautery]

I'm buying an Ati HD5970... I hope I can play FFXIV smooth with that...