alienworkshop said:
dude, games are graphics bound anyways. it's not hard to find a e5200 it's a fact that your not going to get much benefits from a not so noticeable faster cpu. a e5200 overclocked btw, will decimate that cpu by a long shot stupid. so i don't know what your trying to get at. i even had a discussion with someone that the graphics count way more then a cpu, he has a pentium d for crying out loud with a good graphics card and can play games good, and your better off spending the money on a graphics card, cause your not going to see much difference and your going to bottleneck performance.
also, you can find countless e5200's on ebay.
if he doesn't want to risk it that's fine, but he should be aware that the next to nothing priced e5200 will decimate that cpu when overclocked properly. and it's known to overclock very well and come out on top, many people reccomend it. maybe you never tried a solution such as mine, i only buy what is best for the money at the time and it works. when i need to upgrade, so be it. so obviously your ignorant on three accounts. knowing where to find an e5200 and not knowing that games are more graphics bound then anything. your reccomending a slow processor for 158 dollars, dude, seriously, even at stock the e5200 will come out on top, even if it's that old, yeah really...
i also find it very funny that e5200 comes out on top of that cpu you reccomended, wow, just wow. are you sure you know what your talking about? cause obviously you don't.
again, if he doesn't want to risk it that's fine, btw, the e5200 comes out on top for performance over that cpu even if you don't overclock, and you can save A LOT of money for your graphics card which is most impotant for your needs.
so, okay he changed his mind, that's fine, but don't go throwing around false information if yoiu don't know what your talking about. i was simply giving him the best alternative cause he asked for help.
edit: also, even if you did reccomend him a faster processor, which would cost more, it's a myth that you need a faster processor for it's time to play games properly, it's graphics bound. so now you learned something, good for you.
Benchmarks or GTFO. Here's mine.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/698?vs=66
At stock, there's no way an E5200 would "decimate" an FX8320. And there's no way an E5200 would overclock to "decimate" overclocked FX8320. . And while games tend to be pretty graphics bound, there are plenty of CPU intensive games that require a good CPU. Thirdly, we're entering a gaming scene where developers are likely to start taking advantage of more cores.
Seriously, are you just trolling?