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[Rumble Chicken]

1 core at 20% is what my game runs at, its fine.

[ArmageddonKnight]

Old news but still. its always nice for everyone to know multi-threaded games r coming along

Good news for my 3930k

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Catamount, on 04 March 2013 - 06:25 AM, said:

Well keep in mind, the test is designed to bring out differences in CPUs that wouldn't necessarily be there in a real-world test, although it is strange that Crysis 3 isn't managing at least 60fps on all CPUs. A 965BE isn't a bad chip by any stretch of the imagination, so it's really odd that the game doesn't run well on one. I had one up until only four months ago, and I only swapped to my 3570k -I'm now beginning to wonder if I should have gotten the 8350 instead- because it was a free upgrade, a present from a couple out-of-country visitors.

In most titles, even a fairly high end GPU shouldn't bottleneck on a high-end Deneb CPU. That's the good news Even if Crysis 3 shares Crysis 2's affinity for beefy mcbeefy CPUs, that isn't typical, especially in shooters. I'll test this later in the game with my laptop's i7-720QM and see if the game really does require such powerful hardware.


This does show why having a fast CPU does pay off, in the end, though. It is an extreme minority determinant in performance, at least most of the time, but buying a high end one up front saves you a motherboard and CPU replacement down the road. Imagine if you had bought an Athlon II X2 instead of a 965 (which was just fine for gaming three years ago) I think you'd have been making the replacement a fair bit quicker. Hell, you could have stuck with that chip for another couple of years and probably been fine.

I have the FX-8350 now, overclocked to 4.4 (could probably go higher but it runs on)
Paired with a FX990 Sabertooth.

Just picked up a 670 Zotac AMP! edition as well.

A few of my friends with different i7's and i5's are not beating my benchmark scores, or they are very close. There's a big improvement between this and the 965BE. Ultimately, it's just a more "interesting" chip than the Intel 4 cores.

The earlier 6 cores did not perform in games as well as the 965, at the time of release. But I am satisfied with the performance per dollar on this.

[Rumble Chicken]

I agree to degree, although its kind of a lot of money for a miniature archtype structured "surgar cookie" plan of a billion x *~ hotel rooms, so to say for a certain base height ratio at the cost of the sunday paper for a year.. maybe not bad for some. On that. I think the new Darkmatter cpu are also stealth to certain bandwidths of light erg... ok enough good topic

[Rumble Chicken]

But, lets look at this for a sec, 12.blabla nm @ 845gig was obtained 15 or 17 years ago the spectrophy is still not ...well the ac is not working.

[Catamount]

marcos6, on 11 April 2013 - 12:23 AM, said:

I agree to degree, although its kind of a lot of money for a miniature archtype structured "surgar cookie" plan of a billion x *~ hotel rooms, so to say for a certain base height ratio at the cost of the sunday paper for a year.. maybe not bad for some. On that. I think the new Darkmatter cpu are also stealth to certain bandwidths of light erg... ok enough good topic

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Thorqemada, on 22 February 2013 - 01:25 AM, said:

The FX 6300 is outstanding too - god, its only 139$ for a good "Crysis 3" CPU !

Very good CPU, one of the reasons why i picked it over the I5, the price/performance ratio.
Well worth investment for users who dont want to throw money away at intel

[Rumble Chicken]

right , sounds good to me also, price and power. i will say it this way, whichever way I do it has to to be economical and relative for what I would like my 2 mediocre powerful systems accomplish. plus internet and a game or 2 maybe 3.

Catamount, on 11 April 2013 - 05:11 AM, said:

gray matter reactor leak its normal from time to time.

[Rumble Chicken]

intel and ms are more intimate. My ms os's do not observe all the characteristics of amd based equipment or maybe the system can call or.. you falla ?