to satisfy ur uncle hunger for realistic games

u should tell him to try

1-F.E.A.R.

2-Call of Duty 2

3-Far Cry

and here some other cool realistic games but old

1-medal of honor 1

2-max pain 2

3-Freedom Fighters

4-the suffering

5-Mafia

 

17n5

 Lol at list of "realistic" games.  FEAR?  FarCry?  Giant mechs and rocket launching mutant monkeys?  I'd recommend SWAT 4, great game, reasonable amount of difficulty.

Since when larger cache holds back in OCing? That guy must be drunk.

Lets put it this way, running an E6400 at 3.7ghz and competing it with an E6600 at 3.7ghz... the obvious winner will be the E6600. Both basically can reach the same speed. So larger cache doesn't hold you back in OCing.

Yes you can get E6600 performance with an E6400 with a simple OC from stock.

SSJBen

Well...maybe.  But the E6600 has a larger multiplier, of 9x instead of the E6400s 8x.  That means at 3.7 ghz, the FSB of the E6600 would be 411 mhz, while the E6400 would be 462 mhz.  The faster FSB might be enough to overcome the approximately 3% performance gain that the E6600 has from the doubled cache size.  

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[QUOTE="BounceDK"]I'd shrug and play all these other sweet games. I've yet to see anything impressive about Crysis so I really don't care what happens to it.peeweeshift

Are you serious? Nothing about Crysis so far has impressed you? Wow, you must be hard to please. Please tell, what games HAVE impressed you. Maybe nothing about the gameplay or story has impressed you so far, but you must be blind if the graphics dont impress you. Cryengine2 looks way better than Unreal 3.0, and the unreal engine looks amazing.

he said the graphics did impress him, so get some glasses. I agree with him, and my supporting facts is that only the enviorments, physics and graphics have been showed off. Sure they are awesome but far cry was the same with all the previews in that time period. However after playing the game through i realized that the story wasn't that great, the sound effects were not that great, and the A.I despite all the reviews wasn't as smart as it was hyped up to be. I still don't think it will be a flop though. The graphics will sell the game itself like far cry did

Oh really?  You mind showing me where he said the graphics impressed him?  Because as I QUOTED his only post in the thread, he said he has yet to see anything impressive about Crysis.  I bolded that part.  Perhaps you are the one who needs glasses.  If he stated it in another topic, that's not my problem, I dont have time to read everything posted here. 

Anyway, Crysis may end up being just another run of the mill run and gun shooter on the PC.  But it's looking like it will be the most immersive, graphically detailed one yet, something I'd want to try out if only to benchmark my system.  Crytek recognized the story to FarCry was one of its weak points which is why they are making sure its going to be better this time around (read the developer interviews.)  It looks like it will bring back the open ended gameplay, serious action elements, vehicular and infantry combat, and the best looking graphics in a game to date, all together in one well polished package.  I doubt it will flop, but there's a chance for everything.

its almost a conspiracy......all u **** nerds claiming dual core is the **** when in reality it cant so **** for me now since all I do is use the pc for gameing and nothign more and the games I play dont even use ur godforsaken dual core technologly......so take ur goddamn dual core related agenda and blow it out ur ass......goddamnlovenomore

From the Alan Wake FAQ

What kind of specs will the PC need to run Alan Wake?

Nothing is certain about the specifications but you will need Windows Vista and a fairly high spec PC. Remedy have showcased Alan Wake running smoothly on an Intel Core 2 Quad system overclocked at 3.73Ghz with a GeForce 7900GTX.

Markus from Remedy has said "Alan Wake would pretty much not run on any single core processors, although it may be possible to run on single-core Pentium 4 processors with Hyper Threading enabled, with noticably reduced image quality/experience."

The game will use a separate processing thread dedicated to physical calculations. Since Remedy is using Havok, there is no support for Ageia PhysX cards, so all the physical calculations are done using the CPU. Markus has explained that a normal Core 2 Quad will use 80% of one core for physical calculations.
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Soooo, Alan Wake coming out next year and you still want to get a single core...hmmmm.