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For games: 3.33 Westmere 6 core x1 or 2.93 Westmere x2

slughead

slughead

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Just tinkering with the Applestore pricing on Mac Pros and I noticed that it's not possible to get a Dual 3.33ghz Westmere 6 core--that the duals only go up to 2.93.

I'm not sure why this is, but I was kind of wondering if maybe just the single 6 core 3.33 chip might be better for gaming.

I read somewhere that most games still do well on higher clocks regardless of cores.
 
Please, please wait for Sandy Bridge-E based Xeons. Otherwise a single hex-core at 3.33 GHz is already overkill for gaming.
 
Gaming won't use anything past a quad core. Those are damn expensive as gaming machines. I'd wait on it. Both of those cpus are kind of overkill, but the new machines should be a nice bump. For gaming updated gpus would be great.
 
thekev said:
Gaming won't use anything past a quad core. Those are damn expensive as gaming machines. I'd wait on it. Both of those cpus are kind of overkill, but the new machines should be a nice bump. For gaming updated gpus would be great.
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That's what I heard as well. I thought things might have changed with so many >4 cores being out for so long. I guess not.
 
slughead said:
That's what I heard as well. I thought things might have changed with so many >4 cores being out for so long. I guess not.
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Software is always behind. The thing is that even if there was better multithreading support, it wouldn't help much. In most cases, GPU is the bottleneck. I have i5-2500K and AMD 6850 in my PC and I have never seen my CPU at 100% usage when gaming.
 
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