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G3258 to mid range i5?

syks said:
why does everyone think a cpu has to be overclocked to be good? lol stock cpus run games fine and even with an overclock on cpu how much difference does it really make? 5/8fps at most?
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I got slightly more than that when I went from stock to 4.4ghz. It all depends whether you think the 10fps-ish gain is worth the money for an unlocked CPU and 'decent' cooling.
 
I think after coming from the G3258, a K sku i5 would seem unremarkable...

The performance from stock speeds to what it can do at say 4.2Ghz is really remarkable even though its now being seriously found out in games that demand 4 physical cores.
 
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Thank you mr Postman... thats tonights entertainment sorted...
 
Morning folks.. Just wanted to update this thread with some info.

I Installed the Core i5 4590 last night... and what a difference.

Even though on full chat, with all cores running it only clocks at 3.5ghz ( one or 2 cores allow a boost of 3.7Ghz) it comfortably passes up the G3258 in all synthetic and gaming benchmarks.

I was surprised that even on single threaded, older games, I was getting higher FPS.

Very Pleased
 
Yeah 2 cores don't cut it these days. If you manage to pickup a cheap z board up you can set the cpu to run at 3.7 on all cores. Might even be possible on your board but doubt it.
 
I have been reading into that... I can still change the multiplier.. but im unsure if that is just forcing 1-2 cores at 3.7Ghz all the time or if it for all 4 cores.

3D mark gives a good indication of whats happening as you can see it stepping from single core performance to multicore when it clocks down to 3.5Ghz.

Ill keep an eye for cheap Z motherboards but its running very well on the H81M-P33 as it stands so I may be at the point of diminishing returns now.
 

did a quick comparison... everything on High and all silky smooth.

Also, multiplayer is now Bliss too :lol:
 
syks said:
why does everyone think a cpu has to be overclocked to be good? lol stock cpus run games fine and even with an overclock on cpu how much difference does it really make? 5/8fps at most?
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I agree. At high settings the bottleneck is the GPU not the CPU. I don't think anybody is playing at 720p with low settings where you will start seeing differences in frame rates because the CPU becomes the bottleneck.
 
I've got a i5 4590 in my HTPC, it's a great little chip, handles any game I've thrown at it. Obviously my 4770K @ 4.5GHz gives better performance in gaming but the i5 is just fine. I did some Corona CPU Benchmark
a while back:

HTPC:

Corona 1.3 Benchmark Finished
BTR Scene 16 passes
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Real CPU Frequency [GHz]: 3.5
Render Time: 0:07:11, Rays/sec: 1,126,310

Server:

Corona 1.3 Benchmark Finished
BTR Scene 16 passes
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz
Real CPU Frequency [GHz]: 4.2
Render Time: 0:05:57, Rays/sec: 1,358,730

Gaming PC 1:

Corona 1.3 Benchmark Finished
BTR Scene 16 passes
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Real CPU Frequency [GHz]: 4
Render Time: 0:04:34, Rays/sec: 1,773,440

Gaming PC 2:

Corona 1.3 Benchmark Finished
BTR Scene 16 passes
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Real CPU Frequency [GHz]: 4.2
Render Time: 0:04:15, Rays/sec: 1,901,560
 
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