you buy that cpu and you are just wasting money. buy a better cpu and it will save you money in the future as you wont have to upgrade for a few years longer. with the new update in ah and more stuff being handled by the cpu a better cpu will serve you better.
btw what is the point of getting a cheap cpu when you have to spend 500 bucks on an ssd to make it faster.
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This is not accurate. The new version makes more use of the GPU, not the CPU. The CPU still has a lot to do, but the GPU is the one handling a bigger load.
Youtube. Okay. You said an i3 will triple the results Lawndart had, but you cannot prove it.
Look, it's real easy. an i3 CPU is an i7 CPU with some of the cores defeated. There is nothing about an i3 system that inherently says it will beat an i7. Nothing. If a program uses the same number of cores the two processors will get about the same results. There will be moderate discrepancies as you may have noted in the results posted at Anandtech. The difference comes in when the CPU is able to gear up and use the extra cores. In those cases the i3 will be left behind.
AH2 uses a single core, I believe. Neither you, nor I, can say if AH3 will use, one, two, or more cores. I do not think that the HTC team is willing to say yet, but when they do it is probably that the game will use two cores (I'm guessing), but I believe that clock speed will continue to be more important. So, probably an i3 will be fine for AH3, but we still do not know. Until we do know I suggest you stop telling people that an i3 is all they need.
For me, I need more than two cores.
The current release of AH2 uses two cores, natively. The new version may use 3 cores, or may not. Still not certain if it buys any performance.
Aside from the application itself, Windows will make use of the other available free cores when it needs to do its own housekeeping. No application can assume it has exclusive use of the hardware in a computer. We all have to get along.
Speaking of which. This thread has all but been destroyed by people who cannot stop making personal comments about the individuals making posts. We have little tolerance for that in a forum which is supposed to provide help for people in making choices about the hardware they would like to use. Personal attacks, in any form, take away from the intent of this forum. Please remember that in the future.
