Would I benefit from HT?

[Pelinox]

I currently own a i5-3570K, but got offered a used i7-3820, which I might consider.

I play a lot of games, and I tend to record a lot of it aswell, recently, after going up to 1080HD, I suffer from loss of frames, when I record, due to using the x264 codec to compress the videos. I read that this particular codec is very CPU demanding, and was wondering if the hyperthreading would come in handy here, or does it need additional cores?

 

[Martini1991]

While it'd help, the improvements wouldn't be huge, it would also require a motherboard change.

 

[Pelinox]

While it'd help, the improvements wouldn't be huge, it would also require a motherboard change.

Yea I know about the motherboard, that's in the offer I got aswell. It's just because I went from a 6 core AMD to this 4 core Intel, and it seems unable to record without loss of frames, which kinda dissapointed me.

 

[Martini1991]

What'd you have your 3570k clocked at?

 

[Pelinox]

What'd you have your 3570k clocked at?

Normally I run it at stock, but for the sake of it, I had it up on 4,6 and I couldn't tell the difference. It works just fine when using other codecs, but then I end up with files ~100GB, rather than the 4-5GB.

 

[theforce]

Is that i5 running at stock? An overclock should help things.

 

[Pelinox]

Is that i5 running at stock? An overclock should help things.

Normally yes, but as i wrote above, i've had it at 4,6 to test it. But that was just briefly, maybe i need to have another go at those speeds.

 

[Martini1991]

Hmm, overclocked it should be fine if the X6 was.

 

[Pelinox]

Hmm, overclocked it should be fine if the X6 was.

I'll give it another go tomorrow then
Thanks

 

[Pelinox]

So i gave it another go, and bumped the CPU to 4,4 and it gave me the same loss of frames, hardly noticed any difference.

I then went from High to Medium in Battlefield 3, same loss of frames, then i turned the resoloution in which i recorded with down, and still had loss of frames, although not as much.

It seems my old 6 core AMD coped with this much easier.

 

[Martini1991]

I don't understand how you're getting the same loss of frames with an overclock, it doesn't make sense.

 

[Pelinox]

I don't understand how you're getting the same loss of frames with an overclock, it doesn't make sense.

Maybe not the same, but very similar drops. In all, the game just feels like its behind when recording, and it dips down to mid 50s sometimes. If I just focus on one area and stand still, I can hit 110 FPS, start recording, and it drops to 70. I never had this problem before, and it works flawlessly when using other codecs, with little to no drops in FPS, so it must be the intensity of the compression? I'd think i can adjust these settings, but not quite sure how.