Quote Originally Posted by demonkevy666 View Post
http://www.legionhardware.com/articl...hd_5970,2.html
You need a 4GHz PhenomII to reach a 2,8GHz Core i7 in MW2. 3GHz vs 2,4GHz in Left4Dead and Crysis Warhead. And this is with insane settings, one would think you'll be GPU limited. I don't get your point at all, that article just confirms what I'm saying. Too bad they don't test minFPS, you'd see bigger differences.

Quote Originally Posted by RaV[666] View Post
I dont play games at 800x600 low detail settings ;-), and no i dont own or plan to have crossfired 5970 ;-).So FPS is gonna be pretty much the same across PH2/Core2/i5/i7 or a dual x58 with two westmere 980x on them ;-).
Its been established LONG ago that for good game experience you need enough ram, fast IO subsystem a DECENT cpu and the faster the better GFX.
I dont see myself with a timerclock staring at the screen showing me encoding passes in x264, it rarely matters to me if encode is done 10, or 20, or 30% faster, it matters tho that i can fireup many concurrent workloads and while theyre being done in the background i could do some other stuff smoothly too.
Of course if someone has a render farm, or some tough computational workload with a steady input of data ,it matters A LOT how quickly it can be done, but thats 99% of time server grade stuff.
And comparing it to 980x isnt sensible.Look at the price, 3-4x times less, platform backwards compatibility (again less costs).
We all know and agree that 980x is faster, and i7 4 cores are faster per core.But in the real world 980x can afford select few, i7 4c are great but still costs more and come with a high cost platform.And turbo function is a nice and welcomed upgrade too.
And remember that i will be putting it on a 2 year old mainboard on ddr2, to have that option is just F-ing nice ;-D
As above, minFPS (and avg, but whatever) aren't quite the same here with a single 5850 between 3 and 4 GHz with my Core i5, and I bet they won't be the same in your machine too. I don't play at 800x600 low settings . Most games only use 2 or 3 threads, not to mention any "old" game only uses 1. Intel owns here, end of the story, and if you have a 120Hz monitor or you just want high framerates you don't want AMD unless you can't afford a midrange Intel i5/i7.
Who's talking 980X here? That's only for benchers and some crazy chunchers with deep pockets. As long as you use heavy multithreading this processor has 0 rivals at this price range. It's not even funny. Heck, I think with these Thuban CPUs PhenomII X4 has no reason to exist at all. Same or better clocks, more cores, more or less the same price, turbo...