why is an i5 better then my i7 940

[bunnyfubbles]

Dragon Age II is GPU dependent, a dualcore Core i3 will perform virtually identically to your i7

http://www.techspot.com/review/374-dragon-age-2-performance-test/page8.html

I know it sucks to receive news that your once top of the line rig is no longer "the bee's knees", but BCLK overclocking and faster triple channel memory bandwidth on the 1366 platform simply do no translate to real world performance to the degree that you think it does.

Hyper-threading is also largely irrelevant for the vast majority of situations and a SandyBridge i5's 4 real cores are more than enough (although HT on a dualcore i3 can actually make a pretty significant difference)

 

[Spikesoldier]

you guys are all missing why the WEI scores differ.

the first digit of the WEI score is the true performance score. a 7 means highest performance measureable by WEI.

the second digit is a funciton of number of features detected. SSE extensions, MMX, HT, Turbo, etc.

So a 7.9 means best performance and max features detected.

a 7.5 also means best performance, but less features detected. as time goes on, features get added and updated to reflect current-day scores.

 

[john3850]

Thanks for the info bunnyfubbles
Dragon Age II is GPU dependent, a dualcore Core i3 will perform virtually identically to your i7

My x58 was cheapest of my intel builds thanks to $66mb from hot deals and a 930 from mc.
My first c2d cost 860.mb cpu ram in 11/2006.
Need replace my aging e8400 as soon as find a cheap mb but most cheap sb boards only offer a 6 - 8 phase vrm power etc.