AMD smoother in games...

[littlepuppy]

I genuinly believe this, hence I run an AM3 gaming platform and atom and I7 for server type activities.. Nathraith closed the other thread as he called it BS...

Well I would point you

Here

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/257665-10-phenom-core-quad-q9550

And Anand tech

Interesting article!

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3506&p=1


Quote:
When it came to actual game play experiences, we thought the Phenom II 940 was clearly the better choice in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts and Crysis Warhead due to minimum frame rate advantages and fluidity of game play. In the five other titles, we could not tell any real differences in the quality of game play between the Phenom II 940 and Core 2 Quad Q9550. Except for Far Cry 2 where we could raise the graphic quality settings without affecting game play, the i7 platform was no different than our two other solutions.


And again

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=216514

So I would suggest that it is not BS and actually a lot of people actually think that although you can meausure "FPS" to daeth and I dont disagree that i7 benches higher, I just prefer to game on AM3 and Im not anti intel, i just bought a 980x from you this week!!!

 

[regulus]

I'm baffled that people never get tired of this rubbish. I play on my AMD system I get good performance, before I played on my Intel systems I had good performance. The difference is a few frame rates that's impossible to notice. Anyway, gaming performance is far greater derived from graphics cards than CPU's.

 

[Gashman]

if you want a fair comparison between the two, supreme commander is very CPU depandant.

 

[setter]

I'm baffled that people never get tired of this rubbish. I play on my AMD system I get good performance, before I played on my Intel systems I had good performance. The difference is a few frame rates that's impossible to notice. Anyway, gaming performance is far greater derived from graphics cards than CPU's.

Agree with this, i currently own an i7 clocked at 4ghz, ive played games on similairly clocked athlon hex cores, no difference at all, heck my i7 is overkill for games, no difference from my previous q9550 at 3.8ghz with a single gtx 275, i only added the second 275 when i got the x58 board as my previous p5q dlx was crossfire only, thats the only thing that made a difference, and even then not in every game. For the vast majority of games your still fine with a dual core, the number of games that utilise a quad is miniscule.

 

[gareth170]

this as always been asked/posted, which was closed.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18174435

 

[Gashman]

just had a snigger at Big.Wayne and his comment about being a low latency junkie

 

[setter]

this as always been asked/posted, which was closed.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18174435

Yep, its been done to death, tbh id be happy enough with either system for a gaming rig, or both. Unfortunately my bank balance disagrees.

 

[Gashman]

on the topic of low latency, do the current AMD chips still like lower latency memory, remember my X2 was a nightmare sometimes for that sort of things, loved my mushkin 2-2-2 but seemed noticably slower using 3-3-3 so if one was considering going from C2D to Phenom II X6 would it be more beneficial to go for lower latency, or higher frequency cause i been out of the AMD loop for a while!

 

[gareth170]

on the topic of low latency, do the current AMD chips still like lower latency memory, remember my X2 was a nightmare sometimes for that sort of things, loved my mushkin 2-2-2 but seemed noticably slower using 3-3-3 so if one was considering going from C2D to Phenom II X6 would it be more beneficial to go for lower latency, or higher frequency cause i been out of the AMD loop for a while!

my x6 likes 1600 @ 7-7-7-20-1T and 1333 @ 6-6-6-15-1T

 

[NathWraith]

Closing yet again for being pointless. No CPU is "smoother" than the other. It is the technology advancements in the CPUs which will net higher FPS. Example difference between an i7 930 and a AM2 Athlon.

Of course the 930 will have better FPS than the Athlon but by no means smoother.