A lot of people (myself included) have had problems with IVB CPUs in SB mobos, despite the board officially supporting it (with the requisite BIOS updates of course).
i5 2400's are selling around $110-130 on ebay. i5 2500 isn't much more and 2500K's sell for around $150. A brand new 3470 is $170.- and 3570k for $190.- at microcenter. All are plug and play option for your mobo. Easy upgrade and will handle anything you throw at it for a few years.
I'd say keep it, the hyperthreading will keep it relevant a while longer. That 7850 should be the bottleneck in games, not your i3.
20nm graphic cards is a whole year away. 9 months if you are very lucky.
A lot of people (myself included) have had problems with IVB CPUs in SB mobos, despite the board officially supporting it (with the requisite BIOS updates of course).
A 6300 + 970 board is less than an i5 itself and despite the flaws is still sufficient in multithreaded games. Seeing as next gen consoles will obviously move on from the dual/tri core at best reliance I'd get a 6300 minimum. You don't really need an i5 if you can accept some compromises.
A 6300 + 970 board is less than an i5 itself and despite the flaws is still sufficient in multithreaded games. Seeing as next gen consoles will obviously move on from the dual/tri core at best reliance I'd get a 6300 minimum. You don't really need an i5 if you can accept some compromises.
When you for example uses 4 theads on a 2 module 4 thread core. Since they share alot of resources. Then you get a performance penalty. Usually in the 10-20% range.
It also shares the FP unit. Something that starts to be really painful on 2M chips.
BD and PD takse 2 cycles to execute 256bit AVX. The FlexFP was nothing but PR like the increased IPC.
A 2M/4T BD/PD/SR got roughly half the FP performance of a 4C SB/IB and around 1/3rd of even 1/4th of a 4C HW.
A 6300 + 970 board is less than an i5 itself and despite the flaws is still sufficient in multithreaded games. Seeing as next gen consoles will obviously move on from the dual/tri core at best reliance I'd get a 6300 minimum. You don't really need an i5 if you can accept some compromises.
Steamroller will not match SB in same core performance. And Steamroller will still have scaling penalties when going over the module amount of threads. And they are only 2M/4T. In short, its a terrible downgrade compared to an SB/IB quad.
Either throw in an SB/IB quad in your current system. Or simply upgrade to Haswell.
Oh, you've seen some benchmarks have you? I'd love to see those too.
No , SR has solved this penalty and you knows it.
The FP is underused by the current cores but SR has
better scheduling efficency.
Wrong again, 256bit AVX is executed in a single cycle , the FP unit
being 256bits wide.
You could had added that SR has both FMA3 and FM4
wich are both lacking in SB/IB , hence future FP perfs
will be increased with AMD Trinity/SR but not with SB/IB.