DeathReborn Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Originally posted by valencia:hi all, great thread. buying a PC for me always revolves around how quickly i can play FM! lol I've bought the following and am awaiting its delivery. its not a quad core but its a dual core penryn laptop https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NNB-597 could anyone tell me how it is likely to far on FM. how many divisions/leagues i could run on medium database (i like to zip along in FM and knock out a season every 8-12 hours playing time. cheers guys. (reading this thread im kind of wishing i had waited for the quad core laptops (rock etc)) I really hope i havent made a misktake! You haven't made a mistake, FM won't use 4 cores FM seems to load only 2 threads, Vista can load as many as you throw at it. It'll easily do 40 leagues at medium (maybe 30 large). It'll do somewhere between 6-9 hours depending on how fast you play it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
valencia Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Originally posted by DeathReborn:<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by valencia: hi all, great thread. buying a PC for me always revolves around how quickly i can play FM! lol I've bought the following and am awaiting its delivery. its not a quad core but its a dual core penryn laptop https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NNB-597 could anyone tell me how it is likely to far on FM. how many divisions/leagues i could run on medium database (i like to zip along in FM and knock out a season every 8-12 hours playing time. cheers guys. (reading this thread im kind of wishing i had waited for the quad core laptops (rock etc)) I really hope i havent made a misktake! You haven't made a mistake, FM won't use 4 cores FM seems to load only 2 threads, Vista can load as many as you throw at it. It'll easily do 40 leagues at medium (maybe 30 large). It'll do somewhere between 6-9 hours depending on how fast you play it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> excellent. just the kind of answer i wanted. thanks mate. it's hard to gauge how many to run before a game starts. trial and error i suppose. 6-9 hours a season sounds a wholly bearable rate to me. thanks for the info Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 7 Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Well i ordered a Quad Core Today. Hope this will be ok. This should help make my games season's run faster now. System Look EZ BLK 550 WATT CASEGIGABYTE N650 SLI-DS4 MB INTEL QUAD CORE 2 Q6600 8MB L2 CACHE 2GB DDR 2 800MHZ 18X DUAL LAYER DUAL FORMAT DVDR/RW 320 GB SATA II 16MB 512MB GEFORCE 8600GT (DVI TO HDTV ADAPTOR) PCI-E SLI (DIRECT X 10) 8 CHANNEL HD AUDIO SATA WITH RAID FUNCTION OPTIMIZED GIGABIT LAN CONNECTION 6X USB 2.0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarz Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 If you play 3d games, you will have a hard time due to the graphics card. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidBurn Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 I haqve a quadcore machine and I run a large database with around 30 leagues from 22 countries and it take around 8 hours a season. I am currently using this set up as QPR and have spent 1 day 11 hours and am starting the 5th season now but I would knock about 6 hours off as I leave it on when I go out some times. I ran a holiday mode with 30 leagues from 24 countries and it took 1 hour 6 mins to do a season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robhug Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 This is coming out a leading bargain supermarket for an unbelieveable £499: Medion Akoya Core2Quad Q6600 with 3 Gb of Ram and Nvidia GeForce 8600GT graphics card, dual layer DVD writer, TV tuner, wireless keyboard and mouse plus remote, 3 Year Warranty. software includes works 9 and Nero Essentials - available from Thursday the 13th of March. Website just says coming soon. Core2 Quad Q6600 500GB SATA HDD 3GB Ram GeForce 8600GT graphics 8 Channel Audio Multi Format Dual Layer DVD writer High Speed WLAN 802.11 n-Draft Integrated front memory card reader DVB-T/DVB-S Freeview TV Tuner Wireless Keyboard & Mouse, Remote Control Works 9.0 Nero Essentials Power DVD 7 Power Director 6 Power Producer 4 Three Year Warranty Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
This field intentionally l Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 FM won't use 4 cores FM seems to load only 2 threads It uses all 4 cores, albeit briefly, on my box when it computes the results of games not in my league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMTopFan Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Originally posted by bigdirtyjames:<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by FMTopFan: <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PaulC: The real benefit of threading in FM comes when you run leagues with matches in full detail....are any of you Quad core users doing that? Didn't think of that, thanks PaulC At least you can change the levels during the game. Something to get the use of my QX6700! Just checked my game Detail Level. I'm not running all leagues in full detail but here's the info: <UL TYPE=SQUARE>*Worldwide Club: (Later Stages). *Europe (Later Stages): Champions League (Main Stages); UEFA Cup (Later Stages); Inter-Toto Cup (Later Stages); Super Cup (Later Stages). *England (Mixed: Premiership (All); FA Cup (Main Stages); others are all on None. *Italy (Mixed): Serie A: (All); others are all on None. *Spain (Later Stages): La Liga (All); Copa del Rey (Main Stages); Supercopa (Later Stages); Federation Cup (Later Stages); Under 19s (None). *World Cup (Mixed): Fifw World Cup (All); Fifa World Cup Quals. EUR (Main Stages); others are all on None. *International(Mixed): African Cup of Nations (Later Stages); Asian Cup (Later Stages); European Championship (Later Stages); Euro Championship Quals (Main Stages); OCE Nations Cup (Later Stages); Copa America (Later Stages); Confederations Cup (Later Stages); U20 World Cup (Later Stages); UEFA U21 Championship (Later Stages); others are all on None. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> I wouldn't listen to a QPR supporter </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Whos the QPR supporter? Certainly not me, I'm unfortunate enough to support Newcastle Utd, lifelong sufferer And thats why I'm playing as my favourite foreign team - Barcelona instead! I've nearly finished my 1st season now on 1st April - I play it off & on as I'm in a CoD4 clan most days - so going off Xfire I've played it for 78 hours. I'm probably a slow manager whos methodical over every aspect of the game & constantly searching for players, mainly upcoming youth players. So compared to most people who play 10+ seasons, I'm pretty slow but next season I will have every in place to just concentrate on getting the results. I know theres less to manage since I planned it doing it all in 1st season so I'll let you know how fast the 2nd season goes - should do it in 45hours this time. In the early Champ Man days, I charged through the seasons, but they give you so many things to do in FM that I can get sidetracked a tad. Oh well, I've got Primera title in the bag after 29 games played with my marvelous "The Winning" 4-1-4-1 formation! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alimdemir Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 4 cores use ok Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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