how many cores does clod use

[jayrc]

wanting to upgrade so bad, I don't want to buy something then regret it, right now I'm trying to decide on the i5 2500k or the amd 6 core. If Clod is going to use 6 cores should I go with the amd? I don't have an unlimited budget. I was actually thinking of spending 300 on a 5850 gpu and corsair tx 750 psu for now till prices on everything else drops and some definite answers as to what hardware works best. Would like to hear from as many people as possible, this will be my first build and I really need some advice

[patrat1]

for gaming the I5 2500k beats the amd pretty handily. plus you can easily and i mean easily, over clock it.
i have a I5 2500k and its playing COD just fine. ive run mine at 4.5 ghz with the stock cooler. however, i do have huge fans in my case.


as far as core usage goes, i let the experts handle that one. but as i see it, we're lucky if COD starts using 4 cores to their fullest, much less 6.

[addman]

Originally Posted by jayrc

wanting to upgrade so bad, I don't want to buy something then regret it, right now I'm trying to decide on the i5 2500k or the amd 6 core. If Clod is going to use 6 cores should I go with the amd? I don't have an unlimited budget. I was actually thinking of spending 300 on a 5850 gpu and corsair tx 750 psu for now till prices on everything else drops and some definite answers as to what hardware works best. Would like to hear from as many people as possible, this will be my first build and I really need some advice

Don't upgrade anything until this game is finished, at the moment it's like throwing money down a black hole. It's still very unoptimized but it's of course just my opinion.

[kimosabi]

+1.

Wait a bit and see if they sort out the resource management, right now the engine can't fully utilize most systems.

[pupo162]

CLod uses 1 core fully and about half of my quad core 2.63

[Flashman]

I have an I5 2500k and it flies even though at the moment CloD only uses a single core. I have tired messing with the affinity mask to either try and force multicore or have it run on one of the other, however nothing appears to work.

[jayrc]

I'm leaning toward the i5 2500k, I just thought I saw somewhere that clod was using more than 4 cores, rise of flight uses 3 cores I believe.

I just need to be patient I guess, my gt240 just aint cutting it, that's why I want to upgrade so bad

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by jayrc

wanting to upgrade so bad, I don't want to buy something then regret it, right now I'm trying to decide on the i5 2500k or the amd 6 core. If Clod is going to use 6 cores should I go with the amd? I don't have an unlimited budget. I was actually thinking of spending 300 on a 5850 gpu and corsair tx 750 psu for now till prices on everything else drops and some definite answers as to what hardware works best. Would like to hear from as many people as possible, this will be my first build and I really need some advice

I5 2500k, but I would strongly recommend you go for a i7 instead for the extra threads, or if money is an issue for the a Nehalem i7-950 instead of the SB cpu which includes the price of a onboard gpu you wont use.
(The i7 has 8 threads where i5 has 4, even if Clod only uses 4 threads than the extra ones can be used to run your OS/background programs and will help your performance. In the future if they add more threads to Clod you will also be coverd in that case).

[TonyD]

My system runs CoD just fine at the moment, and I can vouch for the 5850 - I haven't had any of the hassles some Ati users have experienced, don't quite know why. I would also suggest that the 6-core AMD wouldn't give you any gain, at least not at the moment. You didn't mention whether you had a machine currently - if not, Sandy Bridge is probably your best 'bang for the buck' at present (the i5 2500 as Heliocon suggests).

[jayrc]

my current pc is intel core 2 3 ghz, gt 240 gpu, 350 psu, 3.25gb ram, win xp 32, pretty sad system, barely plays il2 1946, I've been waiting to upgrade for some time now, got money burning a hole in my pocket, not enough to waste though.

why wait 3 to 4 months to upgrade to i5 2500k (rattlehead)?