quad Core

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:56 am

With a quad core cpu, will playing games like Oblivion make use of all 4 cores or only one? If only one then would it be better to buy a single core rated at a faster speed than what a single core on the quad die is?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:06 am

Only if the game is programmed to run on multicore CPUs.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:16 am

Yeah, I'm not sure about Oblivion, but some newer games are starting to be coded for multi-core processors.

That said, I've certainly noticed that having a quad-core machine still helps considerably even with older games like Descent3, especially when I'm running other things at the same time (Vortex, Ventrilo, etc.).

flip · Post by **flip** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:57 am

I don't think you can go wrong buying a quad core. Does what a dual core can and what a dual core can't.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Tue May 13, 2008 2:40 pm

Depends -- my 3GHz/1333FSB Dual Core runs the apps I mostly use faster than any Quad at the moment for < $200. Waiting for some decent Quads to show up for the next round of updates

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:09 pm

Oblivion is NOT coded for more than one core. You will get no benefit whatsoever of a multicore CPU unless you are, say, running a 3dStudio Max rendering in the background in the other core.