CPU upgrade question

[Windturbin]

Hi

Not sure if this is the right question for this forum, but......

My current cpu.......

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
65 nanometer
L2 cache 4MB
3 Ghz
1333 Mhz

Thinking of upgrading to......

Intel Quad core qx9650
45 nanometer
L2 cache 12MB
3 Ghz
1333 Mhz

Here is the question...........

I know that when running an older flight simulator on my pc that when its code was written it only uses one core.

But will the additional cores help speed up my SLI graphics cards that are a part of running the flight simulation?

Any takers?????????????

[Windturbin]

To answer my own question......

I'm sure multiple cores are not going to benefit me while running an application that was written to use only one core, sli or no sli. duh

Let me ask a better cpu related question for this forum,

Will the 45 nanometers and the L2 cache 12mb upgrade have any substantial or noticeable improvement in graphical frame rate performance in general over a cpu with 65 nanometers and L2 cache 4mb's?

Remember both being 3.0GHz.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this matter.

Warren

[Chiefish]

I doubt it, I think with the new cpu cores and cache will handle anything any current game has to throw at it, as only a few games are written for multi core cpus, at which point the gpu is the only thing slowing you down, but depending on what graphics card youre running, that would be the only bottleneck to worry about, you could run quad sli if you feel youre framerates are not up to par. At this point in time with the current cpus i would invest mymoney into the graphics end of things. And a good amount of good Ram would help a bit as well.

[Guest]

Hi Chiefish,

I should have posted all my specs

my puter.......

ASUS P5N-E SLI MB
Intel(R) Core 2 (TM) Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz 900 Mhz
4094 MB OCZ PC6400 DDR2 800mhz Memory (Ram)
Vista 64-bit operating System
2-Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX Display adapters SLI
PreSonus FireBox Digital Audio, 2-KRK 5" Rocket monitor speakers, Sony Head phones
Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition
3-LG L246WP-BN 24 WIDESCREEN LCD 1920X1200 500 CD M2 1000:1 8MS HDMI Monitors
CH-Fighter Stick, Pro Throttle, Pedals
TrackIR Pro
PSU 700W

No overclocking

I was afraid my cpu might be the bottleneck?

Flight sims seem to be very CPU dependent!