^^ Acutally, Nehalem does have a lot of promise for gaming. But it's the game developers that have to get the performance most out of it. Just like the IBM cell processor in PS3, th core and Nehalem architectures are monsters waiting to be unleashed.
Games have not yet utilized the four cores. I am pretty sure that Nehalem is going to change that.
Best example :
http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i...ance-review/10
Look how much difference Nehalem brought over E8400.
Far Cry 2 running on HD4870 X2 and Nehalem:
2560x1600: 78fps. Speechless
Far Cry 2 running on two HD4870 X2 cards and Nehalem:
2560x1600: 52fps
Crysis warhead giving 50fps at 1900x1200 using GTX280 SLI.
In every gaming benchmark, it's way ahead of E8400 and other dual cores at all resolutions. Now, that's lot better when compared to earlier quad cores.
The old performer Q6600 was beaten by E8400 in gaming without any effort. Q9xxx series fared much better and now, i7's are on a whole new level.
but that's too early to give the gaming crown to Nehalem. The processor used for test wast the extreme edition and that costs around 1000$ and market price estimated to be 1100$
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Originally Posted by comp@ddict
My eyes really popped out when I saw 400FPS OMG!!!!
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hehe. that rig will put 400 holes in your pocket
