how many cores does clod use

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Uhh lol - dont know what universe you are from. I have metro and I cant even max it out without bad fps slowdown in some places. Crysis and crysis 2 are old tech, bad choice.

BFBC2 uses 8 threads btw, WOP uses 4, BF3 will require a quad probably, so I dont know where you are getting this info from. Mulithreading is slow in uptake because its hard for programmers to learn, its biggest advantage was with DX11, but thats not used because so many games are made as cross platformers now.

But please dont give out misinformation, I get your point, you dont need a 6 or 8 core right now. 4 threads is fine, but in a year it will be limiting your pc badly, in 2 years = disaster.

Already if you look at tri sli 580s they are limied by mobo and cpu for example.

I apologise about Metro...you're right, I was a bit optimistic about 'maximum' settings...but high settings is easily possible on a dual core, no question.

I dunno...maybe you and I simply have different perspectives on what constitutes running a game well. I honestly can't see that in two years owning a fast quad core would lead to a disasterous gaming experience. (That's how I'm reading your post, but please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Tri sli? How many people have money to afford setups like that? It's not indicative of the average gaming rig.

Anyways, it's all swings and roundabouts at the end of the day. One way or another, we'll all have to upgrade sooner or later.