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The performance diary of moving from a 1055t to a 3570k

scwba06 said:
I'm looking at the exact same mobo and CPU for a new build. What RAM are you using? Itd be interesting to see if any of the reported issues with Sammy green that affected the ud5h affect the ud3h aswell
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Im using the sammy green. Havent oc the computer yet, as I havent felt the need to yet and dont want to oc during summer, will wait for September or sometime around then.

But the 3570k at stock is lightyears ahead of my [email protected].
 
opethdisciple said:
Im using the sammy green. Havent oc the computer yet, as I havent felt the need to yet and dont want to oc during summer, will wait for September or sometime around then.

But the 3570k at stock is lightyears ahead of my [email protected].
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Just curious but in what way have you noticed so much of a difference between the Qx9650 @ 3.7 and the 3570k at stock...?
 
Just running a benchmark now for comparison going from 955BE 3.8 to a i5 3570k at 4.4. Will post results in a minute
 
mattius1989 said:
Conclusion

............ I can 100% conclude that this jump to a different processor is the best upgrade I have ever done. .....................

................................. I have only ever had one rig, which has had a 1055T in it for the last near on two years, and I can safely (based on my experience) say that I could never recommend any of the current AMD line-up over a decent intel CPU. ...........................

.........................This is easily the best £350 I have ever spent.
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Subject to seeing the rest of the results and the euphoria of the new gear to wear off a bit. I would expect it to storm the AMD in gaming. It is another £350 afterall.

Whether it is a good upgrade in terms of productivity is very subjective in my opinion. All the argument between AMD and Intel users on here seems to be based solely on gaming requirements. If 90% of your time on a PC is gaming then fair enough, buy the sandy/ivy.

Being a bit longer in the tooth than many and gone from a 1991 12.5MHz processor to a 4GHz processor today, my experience has been a roller coaster of ups and downs however I do not think that any current higher end processor including AMD would have a major problem with any software today.

Review 7/10 (so far) Conclusion 3/10
 
Strange conclusion seeing as in most things, there's no obvious benefit to the upgrade.
 
AMD Phenom II 955BE @3.8 with gpu at +200 +140 (GTX 680)

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Intel i5 3570K @4.4 with gpu at +190 +135 (GTX 680)

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My physics score actually dropped slightly on this run for some reason where as my previous run at +180 core gave me 7900 odd for physics... no idea why.
 
nkata said:
Subject to seeing the rest of the results and the euphoria of the new gear to wear off a bit.

Review 7/10 (so far) Conclusion 3/10
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Gotta agree with this :)

£350 for a 10-15% increase does not seem the best value for money (Shogun aside) :confused:

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Skyrim
1055T System - Average 58FPS (>70% GPU Usage)
3570K System - Average 59FPS (>90% GPU Usage)
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in no way am i knocking anything here but its interesting how the 3570k works the gfx card harder for no improvement?
 
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To be clear, Im solely basing this on gaming use.

If I am totally honest, I didn't collect enough benchmark results from my AMD to compare to my 3570K to build a good enough picture.

On reflection, I should have included BF3 runs, GTA4 runs and Metro 2033. Looking through the whole write-up, it is pretty disappointing towards the end.

Skyrim is 60FPS locked and Shogun 2 would have been better with an actual in game run as opposed to a benchmark.

If I had the time and it was easy, I would get my 1055T up and running again and gather some more data for comparison. Lesson learned for the next big upgrade.

I will try my best to clean up the journal and expand in places to make it a bit more satisfying towards the end, but I don't have the data to make it as good as I would have liked.

Apologies.
 
LizardKing said:
Gotta agree with this :)

£350 for a 10-15% increase does not seem the best value for money (Shogun aside) :confused:

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in no way am i knocking anything here but its interesting how the 3570k works the gfx card harder for no improvement?
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It was a lot smoother, the 1055T had really quick ups and downs in frame rate, resulting in less than smooth gameplay
 
Did you ever check your gpu usage? I found that with my 955 and gtx 680 my gpu usage was jumping from as low as 40% upto 70%!
 
In the article it does show my usage on games, and I never saw it go above 70% in the games I play but it really fluctuated beneath that percentage.

*EDIT*That's on my 1055T, with my 3570K I am usually getting near to full utilisation.
 
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Jay85 said:
Could be down to drivers, the games played and nvidia settings used?
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The frame rate was totally solid on the Skyrim benchmark I ran, but there was one point where everything just tanked on both setups. I put that portion down to poor coding, As usage did not go up.
 
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