CAD and cores

Albyno

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• Jun 29, 2008

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does CAD use all cores? my bro wants a comp for gaming but uses CAD at uni.

q6600 or e8400? and yes he will let me OC it

 

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• Jun 30, 2008

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if the cad program is setup for multi cpu usage then a quad would be better then a dual core... i still say get the quad...

 

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Albyno

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is it stupid to buy a CPU now cos of wats coming soon from intel?

 

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if you can wait maybe... neha is showing nice improvements with a IMC and QP. for the same clock i thought i saw them say it was 33% faster then a 45nm quad.

 

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wow thats a huge improvment. i guess he could just get a new CPU and mobo if he gets a nice video card/ mem/ psu now.

main reason he wants it for is games tho