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| 1273948 | 2012-05-08 21:43:00 | Yeah you wan your cpu running at 100% but if your cpu is not all that great then that is not going to help. Also sandy bridge or ivy bridge is much better because it is newer. A product that was $200 3 years ago will probably not be as good as a product that is $100 and new. Yeah. And a CPU that cost $1600 six months ago and is still the most expensive on the market should still be better than a new one that costs $500. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 1273949 | 2012-05-08 22:20:00 | Jack Buy yourself 2x 690's and SLI them (thats 4 GPU's) which will give you blistering power. Also get a new z77 motherboard and the brand new (may have to wait a month or two) Ivy Bridge CPU from Intel Add some ram, say 32GB 4x 8GB chips and you are done :) |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1273950 | 2012-05-08 22:20:00 | www.pp.co.nz is a little faster than the 980X, but honestly the difference is small and not worth nearly $1500 + the price of a motherboard etc. Price is not the best indicator of what's better, technology changes. In this case however it hasn't changed all that much since the 980X was released. I don't know about your particular game, but in general games don't benefit from 6 cores so in that respect an i7 2700K or 3770K ends up performing better than a 980X for gaming rigs, in fact most review sites have been reccommending the i5 2500K as the best all round gaming option due to the lack of perfomance gains in gaming from an i7. The new ivy bridge chips may or may not be better depending on how far you overclock the sandy bridge ones as they seem to have more headroom so can match the newer processors by clocking higher. Honestly from the specs you gave the only significant upgrades available are in Video hardware and if the game isn't installed on your SSD or doesn't fit then maybe a new SSD would improve the load times. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1273951 | 2012-05-08 22:28:00 | Yeah. And a CPU that cost $1600 six months ago and is still the most expensive on the market should still be better than a new one that costs $500.Sadly, the 1366 socket cpu's were old technology six months ago as it had already been out several years (your 980x was released Q1 2010). It not the most expensive on the market as its not on the market any more, you shouldnt be able to find a 1366 anywhere unless someone is selling old stock. The 3960X is the new equivalent which are way over priced and over rated as they only just pip the 3770k in most bench tests. One thing you havent mentioned is how much RAM you are running and what type/speed. FSX is a resource hungary game especially with a heap of add-ons. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1273952 | 2012-05-08 22:41:00 | Just a side note. My i5 2500K system I have just bought is at least 50% faster in games than my old 3 1/2 yo Intel Core 2 Duo 6850 system which cost the same as my new system. My old GF 8800 GTS cost me about $560 3 1/2 years ago but my new GF 560 TI cost $200 less. Games that I had to run at med settings I can now run at max settings, eg Crysis 2. :) |
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