- Feb 23, 2014
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Okay, I'm sure we've seen the debate rage eternal, and I'm not going to pass this post off as remotely unique besides asking that people provide links to like, benchmarks or something, because I am confused as hell.
My situation is this: intense framerate jitters give me massive headaches. Maintaining a smooth FPS isn't just an e-peen thing, it's a factor in whether or not I can play a game for more than 30 minutes.
My current specs are:
GTX970 4GB EVGA (no overclocking, as I'm new to it and can't figure out what's safe.)
AMD 8370 turbo'd to 4.3.ghz
16GB Corsair DDR3 RAM
MSI motherboard whose model number I can't quite remember at the moment, but will provide if necessary
Now, every time I've gone to ask about advice toward improving my performance in games like Just Cause 3 or Battlefield 4 (where staring headlong into an intense battle can drop my frames into the 40s, where the unsteadiness of the drop from a steady >60 to ~40 can start the headaches in,) all I've heard is "go Intel." Stuttering in particular can trigger the headaches something fierce.
That's an expensive prospect, I'm afraid--if I'm going to get an Intel CPU worth a damn and actually see an increase in performance, that's going to be an i5, minimum, plus a motherboard. It's not that I'm unwilling, but if I can forego, for the moment, spending a lot of cash, it would be helpful. What I'm *not* willing to do is buy an Intel chip I'm going to have to upgrade again anytime soon. If I go intel, it needs to be something I can sit on for awhile.
The thing is, I can't find a solid answer as to whether or not my 8370 is the culprit for the stuttering--i.e., by bottlenecking my 970. I can't seem to figure out how to hook a CPU monitor onto RivaTuner, either, and while HWMonitor frequently reports 100% CPU utilization, HWiNFO rarely reports above 90% on any individual core.
So, the ultimate question I guess: is this an issue with particular games? Do other AMD users find that their processors bottle neck mid-to-high end cards? Is the bump up to Intel going to give me a genuine improvement in performance?
My situation is this: intense framerate jitters give me massive headaches. Maintaining a smooth FPS isn't just an e-peen thing, it's a factor in whether or not I can play a game for more than 30 minutes.
My current specs are:
GTX970 4GB EVGA (no overclocking, as I'm new to it and can't figure out what's safe.)
AMD 8370 turbo'd to 4.3.ghz
16GB Corsair DDR3 RAM
MSI motherboard whose model number I can't quite remember at the moment, but will provide if necessary
Now, every time I've gone to ask about advice toward improving my performance in games like Just Cause 3 or Battlefield 4 (where staring headlong into an intense battle can drop my frames into the 40s, where the unsteadiness of the drop from a steady >60 to ~40 can start the headaches in,) all I've heard is "go Intel." Stuttering in particular can trigger the headaches something fierce.
That's an expensive prospect, I'm afraid--if I'm going to get an Intel CPU worth a damn and actually see an increase in performance, that's going to be an i5, minimum, plus a motherboard. It's not that I'm unwilling, but if I can forego, for the moment, spending a lot of cash, it would be helpful. What I'm *not* willing to do is buy an Intel chip I'm going to have to upgrade again anytime soon. If I go intel, it needs to be something I can sit on for awhile.
The thing is, I can't find a solid answer as to whether or not my 8370 is the culprit for the stuttering--i.e., by bottlenecking my 970. I can't seem to figure out how to hook a CPU monitor onto RivaTuner, either, and while HWMonitor frequently reports 100% CPU utilization, HWiNFO rarely reports above 90% on any individual core.
So, the ultimate question I guess: is this an issue with particular games? Do other AMD users find that their processors bottle neck mid-to-high end cards? Is the bump up to Intel going to give me a genuine improvement in performance?
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