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lbuchele   10-16-2008 at 04:24:22 PM

I need help in choosing a motherboard where I can use a C2D 8500 today, but upgradeable to a Nehalen in a year.
Or : can I use a C2D in a nehalen compatible motherboard?

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Zenthar   10-16-2008 at 04:35:05 PM
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The CPUs use completely different (incompatible) sockets, you will not find any board supporting both, sorry; moreover, Nehalem will use DDR3, not DDR2

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aevm   10-16-2008 at 05:11:17 PM
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+1 No such motherboard... Get a Q9550 and some X48 board and forget about upgrading for the next 3 years.

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evongugg   10-16-2008 at 05:36:07 PM
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Nehalem motherboards are going to be very expensive, $300.00 minimum.
Nehalem uses DDR3 which is very expensive.
Prices will come down after about a year.
If you need a computer now go with aevm's advice.

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lbuchele   10-16-2008 at 05:54:47 PM
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Thanks for your reply.I´m looking for an upgrade right now , probably an E 8500, because I use to play flight simulators only and even old ones are very CPU and GPU demanding (like Il2,LOMAC and wings over israel ).
Upcoming titles will be worst especially a combat flight simulator that will be launched in a year named Storm of War.(VERY impressive graphics)
I suspect I will need a major rebuild by the time, but probably hardware prices will drop a little until then.

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aevm   10-16-2008 at 06:14:12 PM
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Get a quad. Microsoft Flight Simulator X is one of the areas where quad CPUs really shine. A Q6600 will beat a higher-clocked E8500 for example. I don't know about other simulators, but I suspect their developers will follow Microsoft's example because they have to stay competitive.

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jtt283   10-16-2008 at 06:24:05 PM
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Two more +1's for aevm.

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lbuchele   10-16-2008 at 07:22:09 PM
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I suspect that Flight Simulator X is in fact poorly coded, so that´s the real reason of the low fps.
The majority of flight simulators use only two cores,most of them uses just one, so a higher clocked core performs better.
Upcoming titles are promising better use of multicores, but the developers are aiming to TWO cores real usage,(quad core programming appears to be very hard)
Storm of War , developed by Oleg Maddox, are promising better use of quad cores.But that is for one year in the future.

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