100 CPUs tested

OCGuy

Lifer
Jul 12, 2000
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I cant wait until there are comprehensive charts like that which include i7 + Deneb.
 

Tempered81

Diamond Member
Jan 29, 2007
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Originally posted by: Ocguy31
I cant wait until there are comprehensive charts like that which include i7 + Deneb.

+1

Great find, thilan29!


That crysis chart is pretty sweet.
 

Cogman

Lifer
Sep 19, 2000
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This makes me happy about my quad purchase. Its Q6600 is one of the best bang - for - buck cpus available :D
 

myocardia

Diamond Member
Jun 21, 2003
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Magnifique!

Originally posted by: thilan29
Damn my 9850 has a case of e-peen envy.

Oh well, at least I don't play games at 800x600. :p

At 1920x1200, your 3Ghz Phenom is having to wait for your 8800GT, in nearly all games.;)
 

thilanliyan

Lifer
Jun 21, 2005
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Originally posted by: myocardia
Magnifique!

Originally posted by: thilan29
Damn my 9850 has a case of e-peen envy.

Oh well, at least I don't play games at 800x600. :p

At 1920x1200, your 3Ghz Phenom is having to wait for your 8800GT, in nearly all games.;)

Well...the 8800GT at 700/925 is actually doing much better than I thought it would at 1920x1200. I'm playing Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (great game by the way...more fun than Farcry 2 for me) right now with almost everything maxed and it does really well. Farcry 2 is also pretty good at that res...I just have to tweak a couple of settings to do it though. No doubt Crysis would kill it but I don't play that anyway.

I wonder how Fallout 3 will run?

EDIT: Stalker: Clear Sky also kills my 8800GT :(
 

myocardia

Diamond Member
Jun 21, 2003
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Well, my point wasn't that an 8800GT is a bad or slow card, only that at that res., your 3Ghz Phenom is actually a bit faster than an 8800GT. If you upgraded to a GTX280, or 4870X2 (or were just running lower res), it would be the opposite, with the video card spending most of it's time waiting on the CPU, as we saw in the link.

edit: BTW, my 8800GT SC kicks ass @ my monitors' native res, 1280x1024, even in Crysis.
 

tim924

Member
Oct 8, 2008
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Originally posted by: myocardia
Well, my point wasn't that an 8800GT is a bad or slow card, only that at that res., your 3Ghz Phenom is actually a bit faster than an 8800GT. If you upgraded to a GTX280, or 4870X2 (or were just running lower res), it would be the opposite, with the video card spending most of it's time waiting on the CPU, as we saw in the link.

edit: BTW, my 8800GT SC kicks ass @ my monitors' native res, 1280x1024, even in Crysis.

Yea,Phenom and 8800GT together make a great couple,they belong to the same class in their specific catagory:laugh:
 

thilanliyan

Lifer
Jun 21, 2005
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Originally posted by: myocardia
Well, my point wasn't that an 8800GT is a bad or slow card, only that at that res., your 3Ghz Phenom is actually a bit faster than an 8800GT. If you upgraded to a GTX280, or 4870X2 (or were just running lower res), it would be the opposite, with the video card spending most of it's time waiting on the CPU, as we saw in the link.

edit: BTW, my 8800GT SC kicks ass @ my monitors' native res, 1280x1024, even in Crysis.

Oh okay...I thought you were making fun of my GT...for which I would take offense! :p I'm actually itching to upgrade but will probably wait till boxing day or something.

Originally posted by: tim924
Yea,Phenom and 8800GT together make a great couple,they belong to the same class in their specific catagory:laugh:

I DO take offense to that...lol, who am I kidding...I'll be the 1st to admit Phenom isn't much of a phenom but hey...the only really CPU centric thing I do is a bit of encoding which I do overnight anyway so I never notice how long it takes. :)
 

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
26,355
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Hmm ... My 939 x2 4200+ seems to be towards the bottom of the chart .... not too bad for a 2+ year old rig though ....
 

lifeobry

Golden Member
Oct 24, 2008
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i knew i should have gone with the e7200... looks like the e5200 is behind ~15 fps at equal clocks
 

GrJohnso

Senior member
Jun 18, 2004
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Nice list... That's definitely one of the most thorough comparisons... Nice to see how the Quads compare to the Duals when the software is there to take advantage of them. Still, makes me feel good about my decision to go with a fast dual for now...
 

thilanliyan

Lifer
Jun 21, 2005
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Originally posted by: lifeobry
i knew i should have gone with the e7200... looks like the e5200 is behind ~15 fps at equal clocks

Yeah but do you play at very low resolutions? If you don't then it's not a big issue.
 

nyker96

Diamond Member
Apr 19, 2005
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Originally posted by: thilan29
Originally posted by: lifeobry
i knew i should have gone with the e7200... looks like the e5200 is behind ~15 fps at equal clocks

Yeah but do you play at very low resolutions? If you don't then it's not a big issue.

what sets e7200 apart from e5xxx isn't the added 1mb cache but rather sse4.1. making encoding job that much faster. If you into that type of things ;]
 

FalseChristian

Diamond Member
Jan 7, 2002
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I'm surprised how the Core2Duo and Core2Quads blow away AMD's CPUs. I knew intel was faster but by this much? Just imagine the performance of our near 4GHz+ Duos and Quads. They should last us 5 more years at least.:shocked:
 

ghost recon88

Diamond Member
Oct 2, 2005
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Originally posted by: FalseChristian
I'm surprised how the Core2Duo and Core2Quads blow away AMD's CPUs. I knew intel was faster but by this much? Just imagine the performance of our near 4GHz+ Duos and Quads. They should last us 5 more years at least.:shocked:

If you're comparing them against AMDs then yes they should last 5 years, however when you're comparing them against other Intel products, then no ;)