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Sandy Bridge posts :/

I think most will be quite peasant.
I'm only on a 2560x1080 60hz screen.
With a 290x, what am I meant to do? Any monitor improvement wants a new graphics card. AMD haven't got any graphics cards out really to suffice


I'm not buying Nvidia either.
 
Still rocking my 2500k with a 1070 on an x34a monitor. :D

I'm sure there would be an improvement going to ryzen for instance but I'm not sure it's worth it for me personally. I don't sit there benching or looking at frame counts. Not going to lie though I would quite like the new shiny shiny just for the sake of it :p
 
Still rocking my 2500k with a 1070 on an x34a monitor. :D

I'm sure there would be an improvement going to ryzen for instance but I'm not sure it's worth it for me personally. I don't sit there benching or looking at frame counts. Not going to lie though I would quite like the new shiny shiny just for the sake of it :p

Went from a haswell xeon to a ryzen for shiny shiny purposes :) Plus with a hope of "future proofing"
 
Anyone on 4K?

Pity Steam survey doesn't capture monitor hz. I wonder just how many are still on peasant rez + 60.
The vast majority will be on 768p or 1080p at 60 Hz. Imagine all of the laptop users for a start, then every casual gamer who doesn't even know monitors with >60 Hz refresh rates exist. I bet 1440p and 2160p are more common than 100+ Hz.
 
I'm on a 2600K @ 4.5ghz. Running a 10-year-old vintage 24" HP monitor @ 60hz. Just can't see a reason to replace it until it goes bang, because the picture quality is great and glossy screens are rare now.

Anyway, runs everything fine. Fast system. No problems. I'm sure Ryzen would probably be a bit better but I think I'd be upgrading for motherboard features and new kit more than tangible performance.
 
None of you know what you are missing!
Seriously i would go >100hz over 4k anyday

I would agree , BUT.. i couldn't live with 1080p again regardless of the hz, but i've been running 1440p for 4 years now and for the last year 1440p 144hz. 1440p @ 60hz just feels slow and laggy now. Saying that anything over about 75hz and i dont really notice the difference. I certainly dont notice the difference in refresh between my old 144hz 1440p and my new 100hz Pg348q.
 
I would agree , BUT.. i couldn't live with 1080p again regardless of the hz, but i've been running 1440p for 4 years now and for the last year 1440p 144hz. 1440p @ 60hz just feels slow and laggy now. Saying that anything over about 75hz and i dont really notice the difference. I certainly dont notice the difference in refresh between my old 144hz 1440p and my new 100hz Pg348q.

Yeah I'd say around 100 is where i cannot tell anymore. My lad has a 60hz in his room, even looking at him play is extremely noticeable. For people that say 60hz is smooth haven't seen a decent display or have some condition.
Anyway I've derailed this thread. 2500k is nowhere near it's modern bothers.
 
Sandy sucks when coupled with anything RX480 level or more powerful, compared to Skylake/Kabylake. It's minimum FPS values are massively worse.
 
5GHz 2700K here. Though it's running 4.8 at the moment I think.

No intention to upgrade yet. Seems perfectly enough for 4K gaming with my CFX 390 8GB's.
 
I'm not sure if Sandybridge is still OK.

I recently finished Doom and GTA V, while my credit card slept quietly in my wallet. Haven't really got into The Witcher 3 properly yet, but the few hours that I have played didn't make me feel the need for more CPU speed.
 
I'm not sure about the i7s but the Sandy/ivybridge i5s are starting to really show their age in some games when paired with high end GPUs.

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This is what i'm getting in BF1 with a 3570k @4.4 and a 980Ti @ stock on a 1440p 144Hz screen. Both are on 64 player conquest.

While the CPU is sort of ok at keeping the GPU fully utilised on the smaller infantry focused map of Argonne Forest when it comes to larger maps like Sinai Desert the cpu just doesn't have the grunt to keep the GPU fully utilised and leads to some big FPS drops, which even with gsync you feel in game.

Having said that though i've not have a major urge to upgrade to a Ryzen 7.
 
by the time you have spent money on this it would have been better to sell your mobo/cpu/ram and get a second hand 6700k setup, my cpu was £200, 70 for a mobo and what ever ram was


And u still need watercopking for it talking proper 200 pounds plus kit...
 
Some peopme here are missing the MAIN POINT.. Im talking Sandy 2600/2700@ proper 4.8+ overclock. In my eyes 4.4 on those is pathetic mine ran 5ghz constant 5 years and still running at my sister !!!
 
Just to show how much RAW BRUTE power my 2500k had in single thread operations. compared to my [email protected] and my Ryzen from signature.
Btw Lowest Sandy score is with untuned ddr3 running at 1600 highest is with ddr3 at 2133 with 40 hours of timing tuning invested :D
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