Building A Balanced Gaming PC - part 3

[GaiaHunter]

Intel CPUs paired with NVIDIA cards (no GTX470/480) and ATI 5xxx series.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/balanced-gaming-pc-overclock,2625.html

 

[MagickMan]

I keep looking for reasons to upgrade from my OCd C2Q, but haven't found very many at all. It's still kicking ass in everything, and I'll probably just keep it until the end of 2011.

 

[GaiaHunter]

I keep looking for reasons to upgrade from my OCd C2Q, but haven't found very many at all. It's still kicking ass in everything, and I'll probably just keep it until the end of 2011.

Yeah it seems only the dual-gpu solutions see an improvement with i7 over Q9x50.

Most of the time dual cores are still enough.

 

[AlucardX]

I keep looking for reasons to upgrade from my OCd C2Q, but haven't found very many at all. It's still kicking ass in everything, and I'll probably just keep it until the end of 2011.

yea i still have a C2D E6850. i could drop in a C2Q but they're actually kind of expensive still, and my motherboard, ip-35, has a nasty vdroop and i don't feel like screwing around with vdroop mods.. think i'm just going to keep the dual core for as long as possible.

 

[tviceman]

This just shows that my e8400 @ 4.0 ghz is more than plenty of horsepower for nearly every game out there. Stagnation.

 

[toyota]

I keep looking for reasons to upgrade from my OCd C2Q, but haven't found very many at all. It's still kicking ass in everything, and I'll probably just keep it until the end of 2011.

GTA 4 is about the only game where you would get a noticeable increase with an i5/i7 over your Core 2 Quad.

 

[cbn]

GTA 4 is about the only game where you would get a noticeable increase with an i5/i7 over your Core 2 Quad.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/balanced-gaming-pc-overclock,2625-11.html

It is amazing to me how much Tom's hardware test differs in playable FPS compared to that other german magazine.

In these tests it looks like even a dual core is plenty sufficient to enjoy the game.