Wait, is an i5-3450 doing this?

[the1gooner]

He is saying why buy a 2500K/2600K when his low end quad is barely utilised in Crysis at 1080P-Ultra.

I'm saying that if you are not GPU bottlenecked then the CPU will be used more, when you're bottlenecked by the GPU the CPU spends most of its time waiting around.

Well that is quite obvious.

I am running a core i5 760 and my 6870 will be a bottleneck in all games before the processor will be.

Very few people need something like a 2500k for gaming.

 

[HangTime]

Crysis 2 was set to 1080p at Ultra detail settings with DX11 enabled and High-res textures

1080p + Ultra + DX11 + HRT = probably GPU limited a lot of the time. Check what GPU utilisation is while you are playing maybe?
Also worth trying a more cpu-limited game, such as GTA4, ARMA2 or Shogun2.

The bottom line is, for people who game in high resolution (1080p+) or use extreme levels of AA, there will almost certainly be a gpu limitation in most games unless running SLI/Crossfire. For gamers it is nearly always worth saving money on the cpu if it means because able to spend extra on the graphics card.

 

[mmj_uk]

Well that is quite obvious.

I am running a core i5 760 and my 6870 will be a bottleneck in all games before the processor will be.

Very few people need something like a 2500k for gaming.

Crysis is one game though.

Like Hangtime says other games will use the CPU more (like GTA4 for its physics engine), Crysis may be heavily GPU limited but there are several games which are heavily CPU limited.

There are a lot of games where you will see a significant increase between a ~3.4ghz quad and one clocked at ~4.5ghz, Crysis is simply not one of them.

 

[Dirtyganker]

He is saying why buy a 2500K/2600K when his low end quad is barely utilised in Crysis at 1080P-Ultra.

I'm saying that if you are not GPU bottlenecked then the CPU will be used more, when you're bottlenecked by the GPU the CPU spends most of its time waiting around.

ok, well I apologise for not realising that all he's doing is playing one game and nothing else.

There was me thinking that there were a multitude of reasons to buy something like a 2500k, such as the potential for Sata 6Gb/s, USB 3.0, Quicksync, upgrade potential beyond a Core i5 ... you name it but the list could go on.

Really if you're hung up on one game then go buy a console, otherwise I don't understand the point of the original post. I think most people actually consider the bigger picture and if not then they just clearly like blowing they're hard earned money.

 

[Martini1991]

ok, well I apologise for not realising that all he's doing is playing one game and nothing else.

There was me thinking that there were a multitude of reasons to buy something like a 2500k, such as the potential for Sata 6Gb/s, USB 3.0, Quicksync, upgrade potential beyond a Core i5 ... you name it but the list could go on.

Really if you're hung up on one game then go buy a console, otherwise I don't understand the point of the original post. I think most people actually consider the bigger picture and if not then they just clearly like blowing they're hard earned money.

But they'd be on the i5 3450 too.


The OP makes no sense, as the "low end" Ivy bridge quad core is no slouch.