12 core and bootcamp XP pro/ gaming

[jav6454]

I agree 100%. With Macs, the best GPU you can get is ATI 5870. That's not that good anymore.

If I were building a gaming PC, the maximum I would spend would be 2000$. Anything over that starts to be useless because 1) games can't take advantage of the faster hardware 2) everything is already maxed out with good FPS. You don't get much bang for the extra bucks anymore. Save the money for future upgrades.

Furthermore, as you're spending thousands on a gaming computer, remember that you need a monitor with 2560xSomething resolution. It's nothing else but ridiculous to spend thousands on the computer and then use a 20" monitor. You need the 2560xSomething to take advantage of your hardware. Otherwise you could just get a budget PC for 1000$ as it would run all games maxed out on that 20" monitor.

All in all, if gaming is your main thing, then don't think about Macs, especially not the 12-core MP. If you seriously want a Mac, then 3.2GHz quad with 5870 is the best choice IMO. A PC is still a lot better choice though

This!! Dear god! This! On everything I agree; EXCEPT the 2560xsomething... a 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 monitor is also fine...

 

[lewdvig]

When someone posts something like this I think of the poster as a kid with no money, just hoping to win the lottery and is speccing out the greatest system.

LOL I was just going to write the exact same thing!

All the money in the world won't make you better at games, and it won't make the 95% of games that suck any better either.

Invest that money into rare earth minerals and related companies. You will enjoy that game much more than Black Ops.

 

[nick9191]

If I bootcamp a 12 core MP using win XP pro, will XP see and use all 24 threads?


Does anyone know of high-end games that could possibly support all 12 cores in bootcamped XP? do any mac compatible games support all 12 cores?

What I'm getting at, would it be worth paying $5,000+ for a 12 core MP to mostly use it as a gaming PC?

Thanks alot

Mat

Possibly the worst idea ever. Mac's do not make good gaming machines, running Windows or not. Most games can't even maximise the potential of a quad core. Not only that but Windows XP is absolutely useless at using multi cores/processors, it's as of this year, a decade old. I believe the original designs for XP were drawn up on stone tablets. Windows 7 is a must.

Do yourself a favour, build or buy an i7 PC with a couple of high end graphics cards in SLI/Crossfire. You will save a fortune and have a computer far better for gaming.

 

[dallas112678]

Possibly the worst idea ever. Mac's do not make good gaming machines, running Windows or not. Most games can't even maximise the potential of a quad core. Not only that but Windows XP is absolutely useless at using multi cores/processors, it's as of this year, a decade old. I believe the original designs for XP were drawn up on stone tablets. Windows 7 is a must.

Do yourself a favour, build or buy an i7 PC with a couple of high end graphics cards in SLI/Crossfire. You will save a fortune and have a computer far better for gaming.

Actually when they started designing XP, Stone tablets were just made obsolete. They really initially designed XP on a couple of etch-a-sketch's.

 

[jav6454]

Actually when they started designing XP, Stone tablets were just made obsolete. They really initially designed XP on a couple of etch-a-sketch's.

Wrong, it was made on Khipus.




Might I also point out that modern games are never CPU bottlenecked. Modern games barely use 2 threads as they are right now. Having 24 threads isn't going to help you.

Modern games require powerful GPUs or rather GPU set-ups. In this case, HD6970, 6950, 687, 6850, GTX 580, 570 and GTX 460 are recommended. All of these not supported by Macs, yet.

 

[JustSomeDude]

You can buy a PC with a 950 i7, dual geforce gtx580 video cards, and 6 gigs of ram (plus all the other necessary stuff, including windows 7) for 2000 which would give you a kick ass gaming system and still leave you with 3000 to play for a Mac for your other needs if you still need it.

 

[feins]

You can buy a PC with a 950 i7, dual geforce gtx580 video cards, and 6 gigs of ram (plus all the other necessary stuff, including windows 7) for 2000 which would give you a kick ass gaming system and still leave you with 3000 to play for a Mac for your other needs if you still need it.

Totally agree on it. Mac are just not for Gaming with the lack of GPU support as MAC cant handle GPU with power hunger as the recommended GPU power consumption are not more than 300W which might fried the Aux Power. And Dual GPU will never come to Mac environment.