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i7920 vs fx8320

uksoldierboy

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Hiya guys,

A friend has recently got a system consisting of an fx8320 and a 280x, while performance is decent it's not the best for things like arma3, which is the main game at the moment which we play.

Today we discovered that in his father's 'old' system there's a i7920, not sure on the stepping but it got me thinking, what's the latest chipset that the i7920 is compatible with?

How would a i7920 with his 280x compare to his current system?

Cheers guys.
 
For the i7 920 you'll need an x58 board and triple channel ram kit. If the gpu is a DO stepping, 4ghz is practically a given under a good cooler. No idea how it compares to an 8350 though, anandtech bench would be worth checking, though i cant link it as im browsing on my phone.
 
The ARMA series never have done well on AMD CPUs even for the first game IIRC.

The FX8350 is around Core i7 920 level in ARMA3:

http://static.techspot.com/articles-info/712/bench/CPU_03.png
http://gamegpu.ru/images/remote/htt...Test_GPU-Action-ARMA_III-test-a3_proz_uuu.jpg

ARMA3 tends to hog one core and then two others:

http://gamegpu.ru/images/remote/htt...st_GPU-Action-ARMA_III-test-a3_2560_intel.jpg
http://gamegpu.ru/images/remote/htt...Test_GPU-Action-ARMA_III-test-a3_2560_amd.jpg

The FX8350 tends to run at 4GHZ,and the Core i7 920 at between 2.66GHZ to 2.93GHZ it seems.

HWBOT list around 4.8GHZ as the kind of overclock people get on average with an FX8350:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/fx_8350/

The Core i7 920 gets around 4.2GHZ from the same site:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/core_i7_920/

So theoretically if you overclock both,the Core i7 920 should show a greater improvement.
 
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Why would anyone get an AMD CPU if their main games revolve around games that don't play well on that CPU :p?

The i7 920 would need an X58 board, and you're only getting them second hand.

Don't think I'd personally bother changing however, the i7 920's coming up 6 years old now (Shows how ludicrous CPU improvement has gotten)
 
not really worth the effort both clocked would be similar. also arma games are poorly optimized. its their trademark.
 
The ARMA series never have done well on AMD CPUs even for the first game IIRC.
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Why would anyone get an AMD CPU if their main games revolve around games that don't play well on that CPU ?
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While true, it is not as bad as all that.

For example; my sons PC has (at stock) a Piledriver 6300 and a 560 (448 core) and he gets 35fps on Arma 3 mod 'Breaking Point' and that is at 1080p on high settings.

I get a constant 60fps with a 2500k and a 290 (again both at stock at the moment) on ultra with a nice draw distance.
 
i7 920 is still doing everything I throw at it - but it's starting to show its age... stuff like the motherboard having sata2 and triple channel ram - not worth the hassle switching to that now.
 
billysielu said:
i7 920 is still doing everything I throw at it - but it's starting to show its age... stuff like the motherboard having sata2 and triple channel ram - not worth the hassle switching to that now.
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Oh yeah, having the second highest potential bandwidth of all the platforms currently out, proper showing its age :confused:
That was the worst example you could have given :p

Only Socket 2011 stuff has Quad channel, everything else is dual channel.

SATA 2's really where it shows its age, along with lacking some newer instruction sets.
 
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