Hi Guys,
Well the 750TI turned up for my little rig, and it's a nice little card.
However, as expected there is now a significant bottleneck in some games I have tested on it.
As an example, tomb raider 2013 will run everything on ULTRA at an acceptable 30-40 fps.
Planetside 2 is the biggest hit, with CPU usage around a constant 90ish percent, and GPU usage bouncing around from 20% up to 70-80% max. But according to the in game monitor, the CPU is always the limiting factor.
BF4 test was the same, severely limited by the CPU.
Titanfall works like a charm with everything maxed apart from textures one step down (insane requires 3gb vram so crashes if you have 2).
So it works well on some and poor on others. Now I know this machines purpose isn't to be my main gaming machine, it is just a cheap little spare rig that does some donkey work for me, but it annoys me that the GPU is seeing such a bottleneck.
Anyhow, the board is a 775, so I a limited to a c2q for an 'upgrade'.
Now I don't know how much the processor rather than the clock speed is the limiting factor for these modern games? I was going to just get a new mobo, psu and proc for it (A8 6600k just to keep cost down) but I could fit it out with a Q9XXX series.
Q9550's and Q96XX are just stupidly expensive for what they are, second hand they are running over £100 each which is just dumb when I can get a better motherboard, proc, RAM bundle for OCer's for 200 or under. But I have seen Q9500's for around the £50 mark.
So the million dollar question is, would the lower clocked Q9500's extra two cores out strip the old E8500 3.16ghz and get rid of some of that bottleneck in these modern games?
I'm not looking for a magic solution, but I genuinely don't know. Looking at bench mark results the Q9500 seems close to the A8 6600k.
Again sadly overclocking isn't an option atm on this cheapo machine as it is an OEM board.
Cheers!
Well the 750TI turned up for my little rig, and it's a nice little card.
However, as expected there is now a significant bottleneck in some games I have tested on it.
As an example, tomb raider 2013 will run everything on ULTRA at an acceptable 30-40 fps.
Planetside 2 is the biggest hit, with CPU usage around a constant 90ish percent, and GPU usage bouncing around from 20% up to 70-80% max. But according to the in game monitor, the CPU is always the limiting factor.
BF4 test was the same, severely limited by the CPU.
Titanfall works like a charm with everything maxed apart from textures one step down (insane requires 3gb vram so crashes if you have 2).
So it works well on some and poor on others. Now I know this machines purpose isn't to be my main gaming machine, it is just a cheap little spare rig that does some donkey work for me, but it annoys me that the GPU is seeing such a bottleneck.
Anyhow, the board is a 775, so I a limited to a c2q for an 'upgrade'.
Now I don't know how much the processor rather than the clock speed is the limiting factor for these modern games? I was going to just get a new mobo, psu and proc for it (A8 6600k just to keep cost down) but I could fit it out with a Q9XXX series.
Q9550's and Q96XX are just stupidly expensive for what they are, second hand they are running over £100 each which is just dumb when I can get a better motherboard, proc, RAM bundle for OCer's for 200 or under. But I have seen Q9500's for around the £50 mark.
So the million dollar question is, would the lower clocked Q9500's extra two cores out strip the old E8500 3.16ghz and get rid of some of that bottleneck in these modern games?
I'm not looking for a magic solution, but I genuinely don't know. Looking at bench mark results the Q9500 seems close to the A8 6600k.
Again sadly overclocking isn't an option atm on this cheapo machine as it is an OEM board.
Cheers!
