How many cores are you planning to have for Civ V?

How many cores will your Civ V computer have?

  • Single Core

    Votes: 10 3.5%

  • Dual Core

    Votes: 112 39.3%

  • Tri core

    Votes: 2 0.7%

  • 4 cores

    Votes: 139 48.8%

  • 6 cores

    Votes: 11 3.9%

  • 8 cores

    Votes: 7 2.5%

  • 12 cores

    Votes: 10 3.5%

  • Other (explain below)

    Votes: 9 3.2%
  • Total voters
    285
civ_king said:
unless they are written natively for Mac
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There's not that many programs being written for the Mac these days anyway, certainly not games. I doubt that Civ 5 will be available for the Mac for awhile at any rate. And even high-end productivity software for the PC is being written with multi-cores in mind, just not the stuff being used by the general public. Unless you have a specific need for a high-performance machine, for doing things like video rendering etc. there's very little point in going for 6-8 core processors. Having one right now is good mainly for the bragging rights alone.
 
Willem said:
There's not that many programs being written for the Mac these days anyway, certainly not games. I doubt that Civ 5 will be available for the Mac for awhile at any rate. And even high-end productivity software for the PC is being written with multi-cores in mind, just not the stuff being used by the general public. Unless you have a specific need for a high-performance machine, for doing things like video rendering etc. there's very little point in going for 6-8 core processors. Having one right now is good mainly for the bragging rights alone.
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1) Photoshop and Maya are written natively, IIRC Snow Leopard allows pretty much unlimited processing cores

2) Civ 5 will be playable on the Mac pretty quickly, probably within the first month because people will make a hacked port
 
Two cores for me. My rig will be three+ years old at that time (but fairly high-end when I bought it), and will probably be my primary system for another year or so after Civ5 comes out, but I expect it will run Civ5 well at release. If it doesn't, there's the obvious plus side that that would probably be good for my studies.

Shurdus said:
My rig is not that hot anymore but it should be able to support Civ V just fine.
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My rig should be able to support Civ5 better now that it's not that hot - amazing what a good cleaning can do to temperatures.
 
civ_king said:
1) Photoshop and Maya are written natively, IIRC Snow Leopard allows pretty much unlimited processing cores
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I don't know about Maya, but Photoshop is considered high-end productivity software. Those are the few programs that are being written with multi-cores in mind at the moment. With the prices they charge for them, they can afford to put that extra effort into the coding. And it doesn't matter if Snow Leopard allows unlimited cores if the program you're running wasn't given instructions on how to use them. Multi-core support has to be built into the software, you can't just magically make it work with some outside program. If Civ 5 wasn't told how to use 8 cores simultaneously, then it won't. My guess is that it will make use of no more than 2 cores. Maybe 4 but I doubt it.
 
Willem said:
I don't know about Maya, but Photoshop is considered high-end productivity software. Those are the few programs that are being written with multi-cores in mind at the moment. With the prices they charge for them, they can afford to put that extra effort into the coding. And it doesn't matter if Snow Leopard allows unlimited cores if the program you're running wasn't given instructions on how to use them. Multi-core support has to be built into the software, you can't just magically make it work with some outside program. If Civ 5 wasn't told how to use 8 cores simultaneously, then it won't. My guess is that it will make use of no more than 2 cores. Maybe 4 but I doubt it.
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Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) in Mac OS X Snow Leopard addresses this pressing need. It’s a set of first-of-their-kind technologies that makes it much easier for developers to squeeze every last drop of power from multicore systems. With GCD, threads are handled by the operating system, not by individual applications. GCD-enabled programs can automatically distribute their work across all available cores, resulting in the best possible performance whether they’re running on a dual-core Mac mini, an 8-core Mac Pro, or anything in between. Once developers start using GCD for their applications, you’ll start noticing significant improvements in performance.
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any competent porter will make it good for Grand Central
 
Lemon Merchant raises an important issue - liquid cooling.

I think we need more eco-friendly laptops that will use the excess heat to brew our tea and heat our mulled wine !
 
I'd hope Maya is written with multi-core in mind... its around $4k...
 
Rusty Edge said:
Lemon Merchant raises an important issue - liquid cooling.

I think we need more eco-friendly laptops that will use the excess heat to brew our tea and heat our mulled wine !
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when you brought that up, I started fantasizing about what a i7 extreme could be overclocked to with a G5 cooling system :drool: maybe 5GHz
 
I've heard that you get to over 4 just on air alone.

Lemon: Why no, honey. I haven't been overclocking your i7. I wouldn't touch it. It's for your work, and I respect that... :mischief:

"Mrs." Lemon: Then why is it hovering six inches off the desk? :mad:
 
My Core i7 920 runs at 3.6GHz on air, stable as a rock in its lowest energy state. :)

Probably won't have it in time for Civ V release but I'm planning to ditch all my computers and run one Mac Pro with 4 graphics cards and 4 monitors. Hopefully with 8 or 12 cores as I run a lot of VM's for work.

I'm sure my wife won't mind having the i7 with dual HD4870X2's. Then I can turn hers into another NAS!
 
PadainFain said:
My Core i7 920 runs at 3.6GHz on air, stable as a rock in its lowest energy state. :)

Probably won't have it in time for Civ V release but I'm planning to ditch all my computers and run one Mac Pro with 4 graphics cards and 4 monitors. Hopefully with 8 or 12 cores as I run a lot of VM's for work.

I'm sure my wife won't mind having the i7 with dual HD4870X2's. Then I can turn hers into another NAS!
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I'd wait for the refresh as the current Nvidia cards may be cool, but they suck for performance, a juicy twelves cores are awesome, it will grind Alienware into a pulp (BTW get the warranty)
 
I'm hoping my single-core will run it (4 GB ram 512 MB video card...or is it 1 GB? I can't remember), although at this stage I'm rather doubtful. Although, if worst comes to worst, I can always play on my dad's machine...6 GB ram, 1 GB dual video cards (as in, you need two of them in order for them to work), 1.5 TB hard drive, and I believe it's got dual quad processors...:D It's an absolute beast.
 
Chimera1804 said:
I'm hoping my single-core will run it (4 GB ram 512 MB video card...or is it 1 GB? I can't remember), although at this stage I'm rather doubtful. Although, if worst comes to worst, I can always play on my dad's machine...6 GB ram, 1 GB dual video cards (as in, you need two of them in order for them to work), 1.5 TB hard drive, and I believe it's got dual quad processors...:D It's an absolute beast.
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What is it? a MacPro?
 
Rusty Edge said:
Lemon Merchant raises an important issue - liquid cooling.

I think we need more eco-friendly laptops that will use the excess heat to brew our tea and heat our mulled wine !
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:lol::lol::lol:

Nice one, Rusty. I missed this the first time through the thread. :(

Now I'm inspired to go off and knit a hybrid laptop/teapot cozy. :D
 
Chimera1804 said:
Mac? No way...Dell XPS...
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Your right, not enough RAM, Hard Drive and Home Premium sucks plus an ugly case, as soon as the new iMac comes out it will probably have better specs
 
civ_king said:
Your right, not enough RAM, Hard Drive and Home Premium sucks plus an ugly case, as soon as the new iMac comes out it will probably have better specs
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Well it's a year old already...:p
 
oh so sad, too bad 99% of people don't even use 8gb ram let alone 24 or 64.
 
Shiggs713 said:
oh so sad, too bad 99% of people don't even use 8gb ram let alone 24 or 64.
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I buy really nice machines and keep them for a while, how much RAM did people use 5 years ago? how about 10 years ago?
I bought an extremely nice Pentium 4 maybe 6 years ago and it still works really well
 
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