4870x2 or something.
If he can drop an extra $100 on a new power source.
Na bro I moved up to two 4890s, but seriously the 4850, crossfire or not, is a great card.
I’d recommend quadcore, yeah.
extra money for a non-existant advantage? He’s not encoding or doing heavy graphics work with multi-threaded applications…
It won’t be long before we see games that can take advantage of a quad-core CPU. If I can get my final-year project to max a Q6600 out, I’m sure someone like Crytek can handle it too.
I have a feeling that bigger games may need a bit more time and effort then your final project in terms of allocating resources.
They do have quite going on in a game, like, graphics n’ shit.
My final-year project was very, very similar to a game. 3D graphics and all.
They wont make games utilise quad core fully until people start using them as the standard.
Core 2 is about the standard now, but there still a fuckign shitload of people on pentiums and celerons and shit, so its going to be at least another 2-3 years before 90% of games coming out will include FULLY FUNCTIONING multi-threading.
From my own experience I don’t recommend going for a dual-GPU setup.
I had a 9800GX2 (dual GPU) and it died after 6 months of use; it was VERY warm, uses a lot of electricity and because it’s SLI / Crossfire you only have half the memory available same with bandwidth.
This is because both chips save the same data on their VRAM to process it, so 2x 512Mb is not 1Gb of VRAM but only 512Mb effective.
I have a single GPU now (GTX 285) and it’s so much better; lower temps, lower power usage, large bandwidth and unique VRAM (1024Mb - 512bit) and it’s extremely stable (FPS doesn’t jump up and down because no swapping with system RAM is involved).
Not to mention microstuttering; many fear it and many don’t know about it but I have had it and trust me you DON’T want it.
As for quad-core, I have one but it’s only on full power with compiling / rendering or playing Crysis (+Warhead) and I think with GTA IV and heavy games like that.
Id go for a quad core. Especially when you are using programs like 3ds max and photoshop. As far as i heard they use alot of cpu and is optimized for quad
Photoshop?
Using up a lot of CPU?
hahahahahahhahhahahaahhahahahahhahahahah
(just so you know, the processing power PS uses is based on the size/complexity of the image your working on.)
As you were saying.
IIRC, photoshop is among the top programs that slow down your computer the most.
Please, when the splash screen is up yeah, your PC slows, but once it’s open.
You need to be using super high res vectors or crazy high quality pictures to slow it to anything noticeable.
Looked up some stats, and I thought it was a lot higher then it is, but it slowed down this systems boot time by almost 5 seconds.
PHOTOSHOP CS2 NUB
FFS, I use CS4, get over yourself level, the internet isnt the place to try and make yourself seem smart.
I admit I’m wrong, and you say I’m trying to make myself seem smart? Chill bro, like you said, it’s just the internet.
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Holy shit. What will we do? Five whole seconds added to boot time? THAT’S HORRIBLE. Absolutely horrible.
I aint gonna upgrade yet, maybe christmas time but i’m running on a low end Laptop and I’m happy 
PROTIP: unless you know what you are doing don’t do it yourself.