Hulk
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Sure ok.
4GHz Haswell vs 3.5GHz Skylake = Skylake 5-10% faster
Better?
And that my friends is exactly where this ship will hit land.
Sure ok.
4GHz Haswell vs 3.5GHz Skylake = Skylake 5-10% faster
Better?
thats cuz people were overclocking them like MAD!
:thumbsup:
stock to stock, it wasnt that bad... now if u factor in the NOS.. err overclocking...
And the Q6600 just about decimated everything that it came in touch with...
it was literally GAME OVERS.... :wub:
The hype came from the mobile p3's they converted to desktop.
People knew conroe was a P3 variant upgraded for desktop use, hence they already had a ballpark idea on how it would perform.
Still miss the boiler functionality on Pentium 4 Prescott:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG3wceb05Sg
What are we going to cook pasta on now?
Didn't the Intel 486's top out at 50Mhz or 66DX/2 overdrive? It was other CPU makers that went past that if i remember right. Going from that 66DX/2 overdrive to a Pentium 120 was an amazing difference.
There was the 133DX4 as well.
There was the 133DX4 as well.
Obsiously we mean for gamers, not people who'd be best off with tablets....
Yep, Intel topped out at 100MHz because they moved on to selling Pentiums. AMD wanted to do the same, to move on from selling 486 chips for cheap, with their K5 chip.I'm pretty sure that was an AMD chip. Intel topped out with the 100DX4
That's what I'm counting on, and I hope more and more gets offloaded to the GPU :thumbsup:If Mantle is any indication, with upcoming DX-12 games you will not have to upgrade your CPU for a longggggggggg time.
If Mantle is any indication, with upcoming DX-12 games you will not have to upgrade your CPU for a longggggggggg time.
Was that an aprils fool joke?
Game logic, AI etc just dissapeared over night? There is a lot more to games than graphics API overhead.
Are you expecting a Quad Core (Core i5/7) SandyBridge or even a Core i7 Nehalem(OC) to be inadequate for DX-12 games ???
If Mantle is any indication, with upcoming DX-12 games you will not have to upgrade your CPU for a longggggggggg time.
I don't think DX12 will extend the life of old CPU's as much as some people, and I hope it doesn't. I think developers will take advantage of the greatly reduced overhead to build more complex games and more immersive open worlds to explore.
I fully expect an OC'd i5 SB to be just fine through 2016
I'll go ahead and say they would be perfectly ok for gaming even till 2020.I fully expect an OC'd i5 SB to be just fine through 2016
average joes dont usually upgrade CPUs. and they dont spend $500 on dPGUs. so they will benefit moving to newer CPUs
I am what you would consider an average joe and yes you are right in that i only upgrade my computer if it comes to a point where i no longer get satisfactory performance from my current setup.So i am going to keep my $500 Gaming PC from 2012 for as long as it can possibly continue to give acceptable performance in new games and then when it can't, i will do a full upgrade. I am looking at around 2016/17 for an upgrade time. Yes one can make a $500 PC last 5-6 years if they want to.That wasn't what I was thinking. I was thinking the average Joe upgrades to a new computer when more CPU performance is needed, not a new CPU only as a separate part.
The question is what upgrade cycle Joe is looking at these days on desktops. I'm thinking 10+ years. And to be honest, I think it's more driven by new I/O ports (USB 3.1 Type C), SSDs, Windows versions, and similar. And yes, the average Joe does not even upgrade the OS, they get a new PC...