thinking of joining I7

[brandonwh64]

Me personally, if i was in the market for I7, i would go for a I7 970 32nm chip or any 1366 32nm chip ATM. they have a tendency to keep up with 2600K

 

[n-ster]

the i7 970 is pretty damn good and expensive... you'd be lucky to get one at 500~600$

 

[brandonwh64]

yea hopfully when 990X get released, the price of the 970 will fall

 

[JrRacinFan]

Me personally, if i was in the market for I7, i would go for a I7 970 32nm chip or any 1366 32nm chip ATM. they have a tendency to keep up with 2600K

Care to elaborate as to why over the 2600K?

 

[LifeOnMars]

Just a reminder, but CPU utilization is more at higher res than at lower res. So if the CPU is only capable of 80fps @ 1440x900, it won't be doing 85fps at 1920x1080. As long as the CPU doesn't limit the game until 80fps, there is practically no point in having a better CPU as frame rate is going to be smooth enough.

Most games are gpu intensive. Therefore, lets the cpu is capable of 100 fps at 1440x900 or 93fps at 1080p, while the gpu only capable of 50 and 38 respectively for example. The GPU upgrade makes a huge difference in most games.

Even if the CPU bottlenecks him at 80fps at 1440x900 and can go up to 75 fps at 1080p and the GPU bottlenecks at 1080p at 50fps and can go up to 90 fps at 1440x900, he still gets good fps at 1440x900 (80 fps) and the increase with a new CPU is pointless, while at 1080p He will only barely gets 50 fps unless he upgrades his GPU. Do not forget, this is for cpu intensive games, a big minority.

Don't need reminding dude, I already know it's the lowest common denominator which you are working to when it comes to framerates.