Bit of advice for CoD5 upgrade

[edY]

Ok great, I'll look into the Wolfdale processor.

I see only three 1366 mobos on OC, so surely the 775's aren't dead just yet!?

Which other PSU or 775 mobo would you suggest?

I also plan on using Adobe's Creative Suite a lot with this new system.

 

[jakspyder]

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Intel P45
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCS Extreme 512MB
OCZ GameXStream 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

maybe a better cooler but im not sure which are great and that one is decent for the money. using the 8500 rather then 6850 is cheaper and has much better overclocking potensial, if you dont overclock it its still got a higher clock speed and being 45nm runs much cooler! so its just better

 

[edY]

Is the E8500 a better choice than the Q6600? - same price - I think I saw another thread saying they would be similar performance, but should I be looking at quad core chips instead of duel core? - and if I were to buy a quad core, would I need a better mobo than above?

Thanks Jak, I'll look into a cooler.

Ed

 

[Boogle]

It not misleading at all, its a fact ! if anything Your being misleading with your last post. I mean, what are you trying to say ? that he will be ok as long as he has a powerfull enough card ?

He's right - the CPU has no impact on resolution. Resolution is a product of fillrate and pixel shader power - not CPU power. This is why when you're heavily CPU limited you get exactly the same FPS at 640x480 as 1920x1200. As the resolution changes.. the FPS doesn't - because the CPU doesn't do the graphics. The CPU does the AI, physics, general input, and sends graphics data (textures, vertices, instructions) to the GPU. The GPU then has to worry about the resolution all on its lonesome.

So in fact a statement of 'anything over 800x600 will die on a P4' is misleading, if not completely incorrect. A correct statement would be 'anything over low detail will die on a P4'.

 

[jigger]

He's right - the CPU has no impact on resolution. Resolution is a product of fillrate and pixel shader power - not CPU power. This is why when you're heavily CPU limited you get exactly the same FPS at 640x480 as 1920x1200. As the resolution changes.. the FPS doesn't - because the CPU doesn't do the graphics. The CPU does the AI, physics, general input, and sends graphics data (textures, vertices, instructions) to the GPU. The GPU then has to worry about the resolution all on its lonesome.

So in fact a statement of 'anything over 800x600 will die on a P4' is misleading, if not completely incorrect. A correct statement would be 'anything over low detail will die on a P4'.

My statement of anything 800x600 and the p4 will be the problem is quite correct.

You seem to have missed my point, and i understand what you are saying, and your principles are correct but, at 800x600 and the northy is out of its depth, end of, spin that however you want to but thats about the cut off point for the CPU 640X480 - 1920X1200 it aint getting any better regardless, the job is still *******.



Sorry for this edY, ill let it go now.

This looks to be a good deal,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

 

[edY]

No problem, interesting to hear what you guys have to say

That mobo is really cheap - shouldn't I be spending the most on this component?

 

[Boogle]

You seem to have missed my point, and i understand what you are saying, and your principles are correct but, at 800x600 and the northy is out of its depth, end of, spin that however you want to but thats about the cut off point for the CPU 640X480 - 1920X1200 it aint getting any better regardless, the job is still *******

I still don't understand? I ran plenty of games at 1600x1200 with my old P4 2.53Ghz. It won't play any new games at high detail, but my nephews still play fairly recent games at 1280x1024 with it and a 6600GT. I don't understand how resolution can even enter the picture. The CPU hasn't suddenly overnight become incapable of working, its just no longer fast enough to play the latest games?

 

[edY]

Ok, I'm considering going for the Q6600 quad instead of the E8500, as I gather this will be better for running Adobe programs.

Also been advised to go for an Nvidia graphics card for the same specs - such as the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB or 9800GTX+ 512MB GDDR3. Would this be better?

Still not really sure about the motherboard - would the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Intel P45 or other Asus stated somewhere be neccessary for the other components?

Cheers for all the help.