i5 760 vs Phenom II 955

[nitram100]

Hey guys,

Would I see much of an FPS increase in games such as BC2 if I changed from a 955 Phenom II to a i5 760?

Cheers,

 

[cmndr_andi]

To be honest, not much at all. Depending on what resolution you play at you are more likely to be limited by your graphics card.

 

[nitram100]

I only play at 1440x900, so it probably wouldn't be worth it then.

 

[Marine-RX179]

In BFBC2, both would deliver pretty much same frame rate; but in Black OPs, you would probably see noticable higher frame rate with the i5 760, since the game is hugely CPU bounded...much more so than BFBC2.

 

[Zaim]

To be honest, not much at all. Depending on what resolution you play at you are more likely to be limited by your graphics card.

+1, it wouldn't be worth you buying a new board and cpu just for a few more fps, however if you don't have either cpu then i5 would be the best option when it comes to gaming.

 

[nitram100]

Cheers guys.

Reason I asked is that my mate has an i5 760 but has decided that he wants sata 6gb/s and USB 3.0, which I have in my system but I don't use, so he suggested a straight swap.

 

[Frozennova]

If the case is a 'free' swap and its not going to cost your anything bite his arm off.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/88?vs=191

 

[Liampope]

What mobo has he got? Assuming it's half decent, as above, bite his arm off! Not sure why he thinks he really needs USB3 and SATA3, but if you ever do just add a controller card like this...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-000-AS

 

[cravin penut]

Go for it! I wish i had friends like yours!

 

[cmndr_andi]

It may be a very nice swap - but make sure you check what model of motherboard he has.

For example with an i5 760 you really want a P55 board (not H55/H57). Also your current AM3 890GX board supports CrossfireX and PCI-E x8x8 - not all P55 boards are this good (many running the second shot at x4 speed). So this will be important if you plan to add in a second 5850 in the future (which are becoming much cheaper these days).

 

[nitram100]

He just text me back and said it is a budget asrock P55M Pro, which sucks because it looks like it only does 16x 4x and I have just got another 5850 for crossfire! Ack.

Does 16x - 4x Xfire suck big time?

 

[Liampope]

There's benches about on the net. The card at 4x will definately not fully pull it's weight. It's not disastrous, but to be honest you'd probably get better FPS from your existing AMD setup in most games as your mobo does 8x/8x.