Decent guide. But I think it makes more sence to buy a singelcore cpu in that pricerange. Especially since this site is a "gamer" site. You just get more bang for the buck with a 3500 + to 3800 + singel core, than the x2.
single-cores still bottleneck high-end graphics cards in lower-graphic consuming games even at highest settings. With the very high-end graphic consuming games, they are coming out with dual-support, so the performance literally increases 50% which is much more then any videocard can do.
#5 Wrong. In most games having two cores is far less important than having a higher clock frequency. Since you can get a higher clock for less money, the gamer choice would have to be singel cores for now.
Here's how that breaks down: Video cards have progressed beyond almost any cpu's ability to provide supporting information, leading to almost every game to be CPU limited at lower resolutions. That's where dual cores come in to play. While older games like cs, etc, will never have dual core support, 1 core on these processor is enough. Today's modern games are coming out with patches to add tenative support for two processors, which do a much better job elminating this bottleneck than a single core can. That's why the 4800, and even the 4400, can outperform the FX-57 in games with high end graphics and these patches. And that's why they're in these price guides.
get the 4200+ instead of the 4400+.. upgrade to a DFI LANPARTY nF4 motherboard instead. get better ram (gskill, ocz plat, corsair XMS), get a western digital 250gig w/ 16mb cache..
AMD 64 3700+ San Diego @ 2.53GHz | eVGA 7600GT KO PCI-e | 2 gigs G.Skill Performance Memory
The point is , #7, you get nowhere near twice the performance for nearly twice the CPU price. No articles I can find anywhere show much of a gain (TomsHardware,AnandTech,HardOCP, ExtremeTech,SharkyExtreme, etc) although there are some gains due to the fact than background processing can be moved to the 2nd processor. Can you reference the data or article that documents the performance gains? Would like to see data myself.
The most important thing to look at when building a pc is graphics card, but in this case it looks like the cpu was put first. Personally I'd rather have a 3500/7900gtx than a 4400x2/7900gt.
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How much fps would this rig give for a game like CS:S?
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