Nvidia Launching New Hardware to Coincide with Crysis Release

[jason4207]

i would get the E6850 3.0 ghz stock dual core. and its allows ddr3 ram and 1333fsb

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115028

the q6700 dosen't

plus not allot of programs and games support quad core. now if you were mainly a video editor or do allot of things like that then the quad core is the way to go.

if you are going to play crysis be sure that the video ram is at least 640mb being how thats the Recommended amount of video ram Crytek said that you would need. plus if you want to play with anti aliasing at 4x you will be using all the video ram that you have.

i would get that 8800gts with the 112 stream processors and 640mb of ram

Any of the C2D/C2Q's can use DDR3. It depends on the Mobo, not the CPU. You can easily OC any of the Quads to a 333FSB, so your argument is mute. Crysis is supposed to make use of more cores, so I would say going quad is your best bet. You can get 3.6GHz out of a Q6600, so no reason to spend extra on the Q6700.

 

[aja]

If I remember right the Q6700 is a G0 stepping.

Although, knowing Intel, I have a gut feeling that they would take the last few QX6700's they might have floating around and rebrand them as Q6700's.

That would mean there are some B3 Q6700's in the world.

Just speculation on my part...

(yes I am waking sleeping dogs here )

 

[atm743]

Any of the C2D/C2Q's can use DDR3. It depends on the Mobo, not the CPU. You can easily OC any of the Quads to a 333FSB, so your argument is mute. Crysis is supposed to make use of more cores, so I would say going quad is your best bet. You can get 3.6GHz out of a Q6600, so no reason to spend extra on the Q6700.

no

from what i know the old c2d's dont have ddr3 memory controllers in them only ddr2 memory controllers.

 

[Neural Net]

no

from what i know the old c2d's dont have ddr3 memory controllers in them only ddr2 memory controllers.

Erm, if my memory serves me correctly: Intel chips do not have memory controllers in their core like the AMD chips do, instead it is up to the motherboard/NB to manage the memory. As long as the motherboard supports it, the C2Ds can use it.

 

[jason4207]

no

from what i know the old c2d's dont have ddr3 memory controllers in them only ddr2 memory controllers.

No Intel chip has a memory controller on it. Not till Nehelem anyway. You are thinking of AMD.

 

[Automata]

Erm, if my memory serves me correctly: Intel chips do not have memory controllers in their core like the AMD chips do, instead it is up to the motherboard/NB to manage the memory. As long as the motherboard supports it, the C2Ds can use it.

Your memory does server you correctly. You win!

 

[ViperJohn]

no

from what i know the old c2d's dont have ddr3 memory controllers in them only ddr2 memory controllers.

Intel C2D and C2Q do not have internal memory controllers. They are in the NorthBridge of the MB chipset.

It is AMD that likes to stuff the memory controllers in the CPU itself.

Viper

 

[Neural Net]

Your memory does server you correctly. You win!

Woot!

 

[Rattle]

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/GraphicCards/detail_spec.aspx?ID=en-us0000048

 

[jason4207]

Looks like they took that link down. Maybe they need to revise those specs!