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Title: CPU compare
Post by: jollyFE on July 10, 2012, 06:31:04 AM

Im looking at upgrading..................I know that if I went the Intel route I'd get at least an I5...is there an AMD cpu which is comparable?  I havent been following CPUs much recently and am not "up" on the latest and greatest.

Title: Re: CPU compare
Post by: Noir on July 10, 2012, 06:39:53 AM

I'm an AMD fanboy and I tell people to buy core I5 2500K's....that's how AMD is competitive in the gaming cpu's

Title: Re: CPU compare
Post by: RTHolmes on July 10, 2012, 06:41:05 AM

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/) :aok

Title: Re: CPU compare
Post by: jollyFE on July 10, 2012, 06:42:03 AM

thanks

Title: Re: CPU compare
Post by: Noir on July 10, 2012, 07:31:41 AM

I looked at these charts, while they give a good indication of the power on the cpu's, I don't think it reflects very well how they will perform in games. Games generally don't scale well on the multiple cores of modern cpu's, and prefer a high clock over a big number of cores.

Title: Re: CPU compare
Post by: Debrody on July 10, 2012, 07:53:03 AM

also, most games on high detail and resolution get VGA-limited so in full-HD and maxed out, with an average VGA, there wont be much difference between my Phenom 955 and an I7.

Title: Re: CPU compare
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on July 10, 2012, 07:59:19 AM

Quote from: Debrody on July 10, 2012, 07:53:03 AM

also, most games on high detail and resolution get VGA-limited so in full-HD and maxed out, with an average VGA, there wont be much difference between my Phenom 955 and an I7.

Hmm, what about DVI? :P

J/K but you're confusing terminology here. VGA is the display interface. You're talking about GPU or graphics card limited, right?

Title: Re: CPU compare
Post by: Debrody on July 10, 2012, 09:11:20 AM

GPU, that is, ty  :aok

Title: Re: CPU compare
Post by: Wiley on July 10, 2012, 12:13:35 PM

Quote from: Noir on July 10, 2012, 07:31:41 AM

Games generally don't scale well on the multiple cores of modern cpu's, and prefer a high clock over a big number of cores.

This.  Number of cores does little if anything for gaming performance.  Clock speed is way more important.

GPU, FSB/RAM speed, and CPU clock speed are the three biggest things IMO for gaming.  More or less in that order, though it's debatable I'm sure.  Having one of the three super high won't give you much benefit if the other two are much lower.

Wiley.