Old Vs New

[Mirmo]

Hi all,

This is where I embarrass myself asking an obvious question but it's winding me up not knowing what other people think so here goes:

Currently I have a second build that started a s a kind of experiment to see how cheaply I could build a second hand socket 775 and compare price to performance etc. Anyway, you know how it goes, I swapped in a decent case when I had a spare, a quality psu became available and went in, 7850 were on sale here for crazy prices I couldn't resist etc.

So now it gets used as a half decent gaming machine. The mobo uses 1066 ddr3 and overclocks the e5300 to a very comfortable 3.6. This with the 7850 gives a unigine3 1080p 4xaa normal tesselation score of 1400.

This is where the silly question comes in, would an i3-2100 at 3.1 actually be any quicker than what this rig has? Obviously 3.6 is a faster processor speed but it's a very old cheap processor.

Anyway, I'm rambling lol. I guess my final query is, in that scenario, at what processor level would new tech be an improvement? G530? i3-2100? 2500k?

Probably inane questions but I find these discussions interesting and can't answer it myself!

Jayson

 

[SeraphX]

an i3 will stomp the E5300 tbh, heck even the G530 will beat it by a pretty good margin.

if the systems main use is for gaming, you will see much better performance gains by going to a Quad core, over a dual.

not an exact match but
A C2D E6550 Vs an i3 2100
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/61?vs=289

and an i5 2500K Vs the i3 from above
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=289

 

[Mirmo]

Yeah but my confusion stems from the OC. Those comparisons are at stock. I'd love it if it were that simple because I could scratch my upgrade itch for a lot less on this than my main rig lol.

Does the G530 at 2.4 beat the e5300 at 3.6 by a good margin? Or is the newer tech and the improved way it handles processes negated by the 1.2ghz the e5300 leads it by?

 

[SeraphX]

specifically, i really don't know,
newer tech will usually beat older tech, due to various reasons, more efficient technologies, less power used, more headroom for clocking.

 

[charlaph]

I think you should be looking at an i5 for a match with the 7850. A 2100 will be a really good match to a point, but it's likely to be a bottleneck for the system, irrespective of whether it's better than an overclocked 775 quad.

For the record, I think an i3 will better an overclocked quad, unless you're specifically targetting quad-optimised games.