Gaming on an i7? you're doing it wrong

RavenXXX2 · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:31

i5 is the way to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4PP24dBXg

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Systems/Quad-Core-Gaming-Roundup-How-Much-CPU-Do-You-Really-Need

setter · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:34

From experience, if using a single card an i5 and an i7 are pretty much the same. But, in certain games with multi gpu there is a difference. And its not something that an fps counter can convey.

varkanoid · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:36

sorry but is there something new here?

bru · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:36

Any reason you posted this in the GPU section rather than the CPU section ?

Martini1991 · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:37

setter said:
From experience, if using a single card an i5 and an i7 are pretty much the same. But, in certain games with multi gpu there is a difference. And its not something that an fps counter can convey.

This.

varkanoid · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:37

After 1 minute of reading i5 is the way to go.

elmarko · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:40

Further down the line with dx12 & apparently it's ease for devs to utilise additional cores, the next lot of games could take advantage of the I7's far easier.

So while it's still down to the games devs to actually make use of it, for dx11 it's apparently far more difficult to do, so once it's easier expect it to be more common.

(from what I've read)

Meaker · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:41

You think a mobile i5 is going to feed a titan-x at 1.5ghz/8 ghz trying to drive above 60FPS?

dessimpson · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:43

This is GTA-V on my PC.

Seems to be using more than 4 cores.

MagicBoy · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:45

Meaker said:
You think a mobile i5 is going to feed a titan-x at 1.5ghz/8 ghz trying to drive above 60FPS?

LOL. At least read the article before keyboard warrioring out a "response".

D3K · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:53

i5s are for poors

bru · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:55

Meaker said:
You think a mobile i5 is going to feed a titan-x at 1.5ghz/8 ghz trying to drive above 60FPS?

You see many i5 laptops with Titan X's do you . :rolleyes:

RavenXXX2 · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:56

D3K said:
i5s are for poors

Or i5s for the astute....

juno12 · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:14

that is true except if you play bf4 multiplayer.
a 4 core cpu is not enough for that game.

UTmaniac · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:16

dessimpson said:
This is GTA-V on my PC.

Seems to be using more than 4 cores.

pCARS behaves in a similar manner, if you use -dx11mt, from what I gather. This command will try and place all multi-thread rendering onto cores 5+, leaving more workload for the rest of the game. You can then spread the physics over first four cores by using -pthreads 4.

Nexus18 · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:18

i7 - if you hace 2+ GPU's
i5 - 1 GPU

juno12 said:
that is true except if you play bf4 multiplayer.
a 4 core cpu is not enough for that game.

I have absolutely no problems with my i5 750 @ 4GHz in bf 4:

max settings @2560x1080, frametimelog001 (red line) is mantle:

MagicBoy · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:20

bru said:
You see many i5 laptops with Titan X's do you .

Poster probably things mobile i5s are quads too.

Meaker · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:30

OP did not specify between mobile and desktop.

juno12 · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:31

Nexus18 said:
i7 - if you hace 2+ GPU's
i5 - 1 GPU

I have absolutely no problems with my i5 750 @ 4GHz in bf 4:

i used to have a 3570k @4.2 ghz which would be used up to 100%
on 64 player servers and bottlenecked my gfx card (290x dcuii)
anything i tried didn't fix it, until i sold it and replaced it with a 4790k.

Wilko_Dog · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:33

My i7 930 @ 4ghz is still powering on