Assassinator Wrote:3. At that level, you seriously won't care any more, because 150fps and 200fps looks EXACTLY the same to your eyes, so not worth it whichever way.

Not necessarily true for future games.  Also depends a lot on the resolution you're running at, assuming you've got a large monitor.

Assassinator Wrote:Just read it, AMD Phenom X3 2.1 GHz. E8400 is actually a faster and also much more expensive CPU. It's 3Ghz (3x2cores pretty much the same as 2.1x3cores on raw numbers), and Core2 scales much better than Phenom1 per clock (ie. 3Ghz core2 much faster than equivalent 3Ghz phenom). And also E8400 overclocks like a beast.

You can't calculate it that way.  Threads have different overheads to serial processes, ie context switches.

(This post was last modified: 16/09/2009 06:26 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)