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Old vs new, real world performance.

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Games performance to be precise.

My e6300 @ 2.6 vs an 750/920 rig.

Honestly, if I fork out what would probably cost me £400/£500 am I really going to see a big difference in games performance ?, honestly ?

Are there any good benchmark chart's out there that compares cpu's old vs new for games performance, kind of like gpu comparisons but with cpu's ?
 
Depends what res you play at and what gpu you have, most games are gpu limited anyway. Doesnt matter tbh if you are happy with your current rig then don't upgrade:)
 
depends on the games that you play, newer games are starting to use quad core better so you may want upgrade for newer/future releases.
if you're not too bothered with newer games i'd say overclock your current CPU.
 
Yeh i'd really like to know this as well as im thinking of changing to the newer hardware. However i only really use my pc for gaming and i'm not sure whether the extra performance (however much that might be) warrants the price.
 
The graphics card is a much more important factor in games. I'd get a 5870 for £300, then see if you can pick up a Q6600 or something for £100 used or on a deal somewhere. Or just stick with the CPU and get some more RAM (depending) and a PSU (depending).
 
Superewza said:
The graphics card is a much more important factor in games. I'd get a 5870 for £300, then see if you can pick up a Q6600 or something for £100 used or on a deal somewhere. Or just stick with the CPU and get some more RAM (depending) and a PSU (depending).
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Wouldn't the Q6600 bottleneck the new cards slightly now though?
 
Nocky24 said:
Wouldn't the Q6600 bottleneck the new cards slightly now though?
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only because of its lower clock speed, not because of the efficiency of the i7. In 90% of games at rez's of 1680x1050 and above once you go dual core, you need mhz from your cpu and everything else is GPU limited.

looking at the OP's system - more Ram, better gpu, higher frequency on cpu are all more important to gaming than a platfrom change to new gen i5/i7
 
When playing with max details and max res, some games you wouldnt notice any difference. eg

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You're C2D @2.6ghz would be about the same as the rest.

Where other games you'd get quite a boost. eg

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You're C2D @2.6ghz would probably be scoring about 40ish maybe.

So it really all depends on what games you mostly play and if you're still happy with the performance.
 
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Randell said:
only because of its lower clock speed, not because of the efficiency of the i7. In 90% of games at rez's of 1680x1050 and above once you go dual core, you need mhz from your cpu and everything else is GPU limited.

looking at the OP's system - more Ram, better gpu, higher frequency on cpu are all more important to gaming than a platfrom change to new gen i5/i7
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Ok thanks for the info on that, i'll take that into account with my cpu as well.
 
thing is theres other factors like in call of duty world at war and map load times ( a fast cpu dramasticly cuts it down by a lot)

i went from a 2.8 dual core and it used to take about 40 secs to get in game

now on phenom 955 it takes ten secs

so on a lot of games you would feel a nice boost and your current card will play everything out for at least the next year .
 
I made a similar move (E4300 @ 3.15ghz -> i5-750 @ 3.4ghz+) which cost just under £300 (minus anything I get for selling the old mobo/cpu/ram).

To be honest most games you won't notice a big difference. Fallout 3 was noticeably smoother outdoors for me though, that's on a GTX280.

The real gain would be in games which properly utilise more than 2 cores, e.g. SupCom, GTA4 etc.
 
I bet a lot of the extra smoothness also comes from the increase in cache. The E4300 only has 2MB. I wonder if people with dual cores or quads with 6MB or 8MB L2 cache would see even less difference in games moving to i7.
 
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