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games dont utilize 4 cores yet, and probably wont to 2-3 years, because its only a new technology, and games have a fairly long development cycle....The bonus right now is like 10% at best...kind of like the bonus from quad channel ram. Its not worth it *for gaming*, its only worth if if you use heavy duty software video/pic editing programs, and do heavy multitasking. But dual cores arent really being made anymore. the E8400 is amazing and will outperform in gaming any ~$200 quad. But, mmo's run differently, The stress loading of all the players in a mass pvp is more towards the ram, cpu and HD...I just want to know how big the effects are. Someone told me recording fraps on a seperate hard drive will eliminiate the FPS drop from that. But for example Would a Q6700 outperform an E8400 in a mass pvp (or equivalent on another game), is the difference negligible? How much improvement would you see with a Q9400/9450? Would it be more wise to keep the E8400 and go for a Raptor? I hear so much good things about raptors and how they are the best improvement you can get, but I dont know exactly how much it would improve.
TBH 40, 50, 60, 100 fps...it doesnt matter to me...Your eyes can only read so fast...What matters to me is minimum fps. Do you think a 4870 or 4850CF with E8400 would suffice for Aion? Are those spikes related to your original FPS. For example if you are playing a 4870 at 80 FPS and someone else is playing an GTX260 at 60 fps (just for comparison). If they are loading the same thing and its a siege, if both computers have the same HD, ram CPU, mobo, etc...will they both drop to the same thing? Or will the one with the higher original fps stay above?
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