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Is My 5Ghz CPU bottlenecking my 7950s?

LtMatt said:


Good to see you back. :)
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hahaha Brilliant :D. I've missed your humour :(. Sorry for de-railing the thread, I'll back off now but before going, don't worry LtMatt. I meant the AMD warrior in a good way. 680s are going on bee bay Monday and I'm itching to get back to team red. My experience has been that bad I've stopped gaming nearly completely :eek: (jokes, been working like a dawg - system has been a paperweight). Gonna buy 7950/70 till the arrival of 8900 series then it's boot polish time on BF4!!.

Thank you mate, good to see you.

On Topic.

RichH, my old i7 920 (4.2Ghz) with HT on had my usage in high 90s(%), without HT I can't remember the GPUs usage but I could feel it instantly on a populated 64 player map. If Battlefield is a game you're going to spend a lot of time on then maybe HT is something for you to consider.

What is making the new Battlefield game interesting for me is the AMD first foot in the door approach I've been reading over the last couple of days on here. I wonder with the 8 core AMD CPU's being used in the consoles if this will push a lot of people buying new hardware to AMD for that cheap multicore system. The 8 core AMD CPU alone is around a quarter of the price compared to the 6 core Intel and with AMD jumping into bed with a lot of devs armed with strawberries and cream, it is looking great for AMD. Add the economic woes, tumbling currencies and inflation could help swing more people to AMD.

Sorry RichH, bit of a waffle there but my point is, more cores (edit: & HT on Quad/Hex) = a better gaming experience in Battlefield which looks like only to grow with 8 core CPUs being the standard for the consoles.
 
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I'm confused. Anytime I can remember reading a thread for a gaming pc I always remember the i5 been pushed over the i7 ie no advantage buying an i7, and here the opposite is been said? Even game benchmarks seem to show that the i7 isn't adding anything extra to the gaming experience. Is this a measurable fps gain, or a smoother 'feeling' game?
 
=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
I'm confused. Anytime I can remember reading a thread for a gaming pc I always remember the i5 been pushed over the i7 ie no advantage buying an i7, and here the opposite is been said? Even game benchmarks seem to show that the i7 isn't adding anything extra to the gaming experience. Is this a measurable fps gain, or a smoother 'feeling' game?
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It's mainly aimed at multi-GPU systems. Single card is most likely fine on i5/3570k etc for GPU usage @ 95-99%.
 
=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
I'm confused. Anytime I can remember reading a thread for a gaming pc I always remember the i5 been pushed over the i7 ie no advantage buying an i7, and here the opposite is been said? Even game benchmarks seem to show that the i7 isn't adding anything extra to the gaming experience. Is this a measurable fps gain, or a smoother 'feeling' game?
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In the olden days, everyone jumped on the I5 is better for gaming over an I7 but now game devs who care about PC gamers (or have the time) tend to make use of more cores and this in turns makes an I7 a better gaming option.
 
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