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Yeah me neither lol
I wasn't trying to ruffle any feathers ....
still running x58 with a [email protected] and 290x won't upgrade until the rig explodes which could happen anytime now
In pretty much every game ipc over core count. Synthetics are designed for core count, most games even now are not.
Newer games are now better at multi-threading tho. The division loves threads. It is butter smooth using all 12 threads evenly on my i7 970.
Also many games use more than 4 cores / threads. BF4 uses 6 from memory on my rig. That's a big handicap for i5's without HT (for example).
You'd be better of with a 4790k if gaming's your PC's primary use. As mentioned you'll see a big performance difference in lots of games, I'd put money on the majority of games favouring the Haswell chip.
There's very few games that are going to take advantage of more than 4 cores & 8 threads.
If you turned off the extra cores & threads on the Xeon & matched it clock for clock you'd see a big difference and that's where it'll matter for gaming,
With just a handful of games that do use more cores and threads properly it's a no brainer,
Probably right but certainly not worth changing if you already have a Xeon system.