Quote Originally Posted by Mechanical Man View Post
Yes I have to agree after running some fast tests on my system, it seems that I have been wrong and BF3 does like more cores over more frequency. I made too fast conclusion on max cpu usage pattern.

I tested with different cpu affinity & different cpu clocks. Most noticeable difference was that with only two cores used @ 3,6GHz was noticeable lag and much of it, but with four cores @ 1,8GHz it ran very smooth.
Interesting! BF3 almost acts like serverapplications. Frequency isn't allways that important, more cores and fast memory access is sometimes better.

I know that many gamers buys i5-2500K because they want to be prepared for future games. But if this is the future than that CPU will not be as future safe. Less L3 cache (6MB) and only 12 way set associative. Games using much memory and/or complicated memory patterns and i5-2500K cache is trashed in no time.