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 ?

 

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Thanks a lot guys for the feed back, I think I'll try pushing my chip to 3gig and upgrade the GPU for now, I think that'll stretch my system out for another year.

 

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I know it's a year out of date, but this is a very good article examining CPU scaling in games:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/cpu-scaling-in-games-with-quad-core-processors/3

Long story short: If you're gaming above 1280 x 1024 (i.e. 99% of people), you are GPU-limited.

I always advocate spending twice as much on the graphics card as the CPU and I think we can all see that a Core 2 with ATI 5870 is going to perform much better in games than an i7 with ATI 3xxx for example.

Thank you very much, that is a fantastic article, if people are considering upgrading their CPU I'd really recommend you have a mooch over those figures, defo not upgrading my CPU after reading that.

Gpu and Ram for me.