How many cores are you planning to have for Civ V?
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Civ V should be sheer awesomeness at hex cores at 3.6GHz+ each core 
Jawa'sRevenge
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I have a four core at the moment, will buy a new AMD 6 core as soon as I can.
Whats with those pole, 12 cores
Whats with those pole, 12 cores
Civ V should be sheer awesomeness at hex cores at 3.6GHz+ each core
Not if it hasn't been designed with that many cores in mind. Multi-core are pointless if the software wasn't written to take advantage of them. And I strongly suspect that Civ 5 will only make use of dual-core at most. Maybe quad but I doubt it since many people don't have that kind of system yet. Software developers are limited by the lowest common denominator in systems, and at the moment that's pretty much dual-core.
Plenty of high quality MoBos have 2 sockets for processors 2x6=12I have a four core at the moment, will buy a new AMD 6 core as soon as I can.
Whats with those pole, 12 cores
looks like more cores=better, besides the hex core can be taken to 3.6GHz easily so if you water cool it you can do even better,
PS hyperthreading duobles the max thread your computer can handle
DeathReborn
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Probably gonna go with an AMD Thuban 6 Core or Interlagos 12/16 Core processor, time & clockspeed deciding if I go for the Interlagos upgrade.
Snake Eyes
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Serious.
Stapling processors together doesn't count.
Dale
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I thought we were talking apple cores!
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MatrixTheKitty
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I'll probably just use my dual-core laptop here.
A murderously overclocked, liquid cooled, nearly jet powered, AMD quad core system that bends the laws of time and space, and nearly rips off my mascara when I turn it on. 
Failing that, my sweetie has a pair of i7 systems with quad Radeons in them for work. I'm sure she won't miss one of them... Will she?
On second thought, looking at the new graphics, I'd better switch to liquid helium cooling, and jack up the front side bus... Although, I do like Dale's idea of stapling cores together.
Failing that, my sweetie has a pair of i7 systems with quad Radeons in them for work. I'm sure she won't miss one of them... Will she?
On second thought, looking at the new graphics, I'd better switch to liquid helium cooling, and jack up the front side bus... Although, I do like Dale's idea of stapling cores together.
ArataWata11
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Quad core here. I think, can feel the ciV to the bones...
Dale
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Try here, the maker of Tricore processors: http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/channel.html?channel=ff80808112ab681d0112ab6b8abb0882
Dale
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Although, I do like Dale's idea of stapling cores together.
I do have access to a dual quad core (8 cores total) and 8 gig RAM desktop PC........ could use that. EmpireOfCats
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You, sir, have way too much money and should give me some
.I'm waiting for the (overdue) MacBook Pro refresh, which will either be an i5 or i7. With the companies I care about pumping out OS X games (Valve, Blizzard, hopefully Firaxis soon, too), I'm thinking about going from the 13" to the 15" MacBook. That will depend on the specs ...
EmpireOfCats
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Sure they do. Valve publishes its hardware survey on the Internet, and there are more quad core users (25%) than single core users (18%). The rest are dual core.
Firaxis would be fools not to support multicore.
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