Soldato
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So the consoles are based on an '8 core' CPU with very low IPC design. Would it not make sense that a quad core '8 threaded' Intel chip with very high IPC would be enough for any upcoming games..
With new DirectX 11 optimization from Nvidia, Mantle from AMD and upcoming DirectX 12 all looking to tackle the CPU overhead problem along with most PC games being direct ports of console games, based to take advantage of 4 cores '8 threads'.. Could we assume that anyone on a recent Intel quad would be set for the foreseeable future?
Reason I ask is I would like to be able to hold of an CPU/Mobo/Memory upgrade for a few years, and jump in when things are much cheaper. My current CPU is very low power use and runs at about 35c max lol. I'm happy with it tbh. In the meantime could just update my GPU's. It would save me a lot of money..
Haswell -E may be very tempting, in an e-peen kind of way lol but is it needed?
With new DirectX 11 optimization from Nvidia, Mantle from AMD and upcoming DirectX 12 all looking to tackle the CPU overhead problem along with most PC games being direct ports of console games, based to take advantage of 4 cores '8 threads'.. Could we assume that anyone on a recent Intel quad would be set for the foreseeable future?
Reason I ask is I would like to be able to hold of an CPU/Mobo/Memory upgrade for a few years, and jump in when things are much cheaper. My current CPU is very low power use and runs at about 35c max lol. I'm happy with it tbh. In the meantime could just update my GPU's. It would save me a lot of money..
Haswell -E may be very tempting, in an e-peen kind of way lol but is it needed?