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[Big Tin Man]

Just a straightforward question--I'm running an i7 930 @ 3.2 ghz (was 3.6, but it got unstable and I haven't played with it enough to get it back). I noticed that xeon x5650 are about $75 bucks on ebay used. Is there enough of a performance jump to the xeon to bother switching up CPU's? Does MWO care if there are 6 proper single cores available, or just about my o/c speed?

I was trying to hold off on a whole system build until the i7 58xx series and DDR4 prices come down to earth.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

The Xeon is slow, so no.

MWO likes CPU cycles, more so than number of cores.

[xWiredx]

Money would be better saved and then spent on a newer Haswell-based mobo+cpu.

[Goose]

MWO would like the cores, but it's not like I can max out the stuff that loads a CPU, despite my 4.27GHz overclock …

[JSmith7784]

I would wait for the next generation Intel CPU's to come out. I currently have a I7-950 oc'd to 3.51ghz with a EVGA GTX770 and can play this game great at 1080p on max settings. Give your oc another attempt and safe your money for the next CPU's to come out.