Benchmark Results: Crysis And World In Conflict
Crysis demonstrates very similar performance between these two systems, at least until the Core i7 system is overclocked. Since the graphics cards are run at exactly the same overclocked speeds with both systems, it’s surprising how much of a boon the Core i7-920 seems to get from overclocking at lower resolutions.
This is another CPU-limited title for the most part. But with 4x anti-aliasing (AA) and 16x anisotropic filtering (AF) enabled, the graphics card becomes the limiting factor at 2560x1600. We can see the two systems providing similar results at this level of resolution and detail.
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Now this is an excellent PC for overall usage...
Love to have this PC. Great components, really wish Fermi at least drops prices.
I find it funny Cleeve that you mention the effects of ATIs monopoly on the high end GPU market but nothing on the CPU front. How much better off would we all be if AMD had a competing product for the Core i5/7s.
Out of curiosity, how big is the storage capacity needed for your benchmark suit? I know you were over budget, but how close could you have come to one of the lower capacity SSDs and their performance advantages?
The labels on all the charts appear to be wrong. They're mentioning a "Current $1300 System" but I thought the current system was $1500?
To be honest, this just somehow seems disappointing to me.
But then I think of how much I spent on my rig, and got less, I'm even more disappointed.
It's crazy that prices keep raising on everything though. 6 months ago I was $9/GB for DDR2, in Canadian dollars. $12.50/GB for DDR3. It's absolutely ridiculous.
It looks like i5->i7 is not worth it for gamers. The increases when FPS
It looks like i5->i7 is not worth it for gamers. The increases when FPS
I've got news for you: i3->i7 is not worth it for gamers. Tom's Hardware has an interesting article in the works.
@Crashman
Sounds good, this something to do with the i3 HTed vs traditional quad thing?
@CrashmanSounds good, this something to do with the i3 HTed vs traditional quad thing?
I think it's a Windows 7 thread shifting and dual-threaded games thing, since both the i3 and i7 have HT.
The labels on all the charts appear to be wrong. They're mentioning a "Current $1300 System" but I thought the current system was $1500?
The whole comparison is BS. $200 is a lot of money where I come from and the stock cooling on the i5 750 is garbage. The low-end Conroes had much better cooling and they were only 65W TDP. I say stick your no-name heatsink on last quarters machine, call it a $1400 box, redo the overclocking and then publish the results as that way they will be at least somewhat relevant.
Great build!
One thing I would change is the case...this doesn't look mean/rough enough for such a gaming rig, and there's no option of adding lights to interior to beef it up cuz the side cover isn't transparent
You broke the budget. Sorry, but FAIL.
Seems like a fairly decent article to me. The increase in gaming performance is just staggering o.O
On a side note, whoever that gets this rig is very lucky, the i7 in this one is probably one of the more overclockables ones, it seems. Too bad I'm just north of the 49th
I say stick your no-name heatsink on last quarters machine, call it a $1400 box, redo the overclocking and then publish the results as that way they will be at least somewhat relevant.
It's not just "any" no-name sink, it's one that provided surprisingly good performance in its review:
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 370-5.html
The RAM for the current build was incorrectly listed as:
2 x A-Data 2GB DDR3-1333 Kit
2 x 2GB (4GB Total), 533 MHz (1,066 MHz DDR), CAS 7-7-7-59
Feel free to delete this comment once it's fixed.
I commend you for the case choice. I have that case myself, installed 2 more fans and never regretted it!
It's not just "any" no-name sink, it's one that provided surprisingly good performance in its review:http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 370-5.html
Nearly any no-name heatsink would be better than the current stock cooling. I wasn't dissing the sink, the defensiveness makes me think there was some shilling for New Egg going on since Rosewill is just the name New Egg slaps on to "unbranded" imports.
AsRock motherboard, had one once, NEVER again! The problems are not worth the amount of money you might save...
Good matchup. For the money though I think I'd still go with the I-750.