Personal computing discussed
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kumori wrote:Are you really having a lot of performance issues? My brother runs a similar setup (i7-920 @ 3.2Ghz, 2xCF HD6970, 24GB DDR3) and he hasn't had many problems in games, although he's been thirsting for a GPU that will actually get some driver updates.i7-920 @ 3.2GHz | GTX 670 Windforce | 12GB Corsair XMS3 | Samsung 830
Arclight wrote:I will be very surprised if this is "fixed", given the exact nature of the "problem" with overclocking Ivy Bridge. Seems verymuch a conscious decision on Intel's part.One thing to see is if they fixed the OCing issues present in IB chips which OC worse than SB.
auxy wrote:kumori wrote:Are you really having a lot of performance issues?i7-920 @ 3.2GHz | GTX 670 Windforce | 12GB Corsair XMS3 | Samsung 830
sschaem wrote:And for the power savings, that's what $5 to $10 a year ?
Star Brood wrote:If you are planning to play a lot of first person shooters, CPU hardly matters. I am getting almost identical frame-rates in Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite even though I doubled the power of my CPU's. The only thing the faster processor really made a visible difference on was in StarCraft 2 where my frames jumped from average 15-20 to average 35-50
Airmantharp wrote:Star Brood wrote:If you are planning to play a lot of first person shooters, CPU hardly matters. I am getting almost identical frame-rates in Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite even though I doubled the power of my CPU's. The only thing the faster processor really made a visible difference on was in StarCraft 2 where my frames jumped from average 15-20 to average 35-50
To be clear: CPU has far less of an effect on single-player shooters than it does on multi-player shooters.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Why would you buy Sandy Bridge-E if you were only going to get 4 cores? Did you need more than 32 GiB of memory?
JustAnEngineer wrote:Why would you buy Sandy Bridge-E if you were only going to get 4 cores? Did you need more than 32 GiB of memory?
Prestige Worldwide wrote:Sig says GTX 670 SLI, both of which I had before going x79 from p55 / i5 750.
Chrispy_ wrote:Anand had a good article, if you look at the dual-GPU configs, the benefits across a number of games isn't exactly great. As long as you have four cores at a reasonable speed then you're not going to see more than maybe 25% improvement. Stuff is still just too GPU-bound beyond an easily-attainable threshold.