So the computer they offered for this PC preview sports a 3080 and a ... i7 7700K
Real men still game on quad core!!
and so do I.
So the computer they offered for this PC preview sports a 3080 and a ... i7 7700K
Real men still game on quad core!!
and so do I.
My 4770k is still delivering the goods, sure it's not giving me the 400-500fps a 12900k or 5800X3D will but the amount of games it can't give me at least a 60fps in I can count on one hand.
Yeah, Cyberpunk is one of the games I know to be considered unplayable on the old i7 CPUs. But due to all negativity at release and me not being in a hurry to play it until it was considered fixed, it fell off the radar for me.I think you'll both change your mind in about 5 minutes as soon as you upgrade to a new cpu. And you'll probably see even games you thought were running well, were not, actually. Biggest change you'll get is not higher framerate, but more stable lows. Every game will run more fluid. Check out the .2 for Cyberpunk. All those cpus except the bottom two are 60 or above in averages.
I think you'll both change your mind in about 5 minutes as soon as you upgrade to a new cpu. And you'll probably see even games you thought were running well, were not, actually. Biggest change you'll get is not higher framerate, but more stable lows. Every game will run more fluid. Check out the .2 for Cyberpunk. All those cpus except the bottom two are 60 or above in averages.
Until AVX started being required, a PC with a HD 7950 and i7 920, or even the Phenom II X6, used to be enough to outperform the PS4 versions (though many old tests did not have frame latency).
If all the games I play (Bar a handful like 2007 Crysis release) run at a locked v-synced 60fps what will I notice if I upgrade CPU?I think you'll both change your mind in about 5 minutes as soon as you upgrade to a new cpu. And you'll probably see even games you thought were running well, were not, actually. Biggest change you'll get is not higher framerate, but more stable lows. Every game will run more fluid. Check out the .2 for Cyberpunk. All those cpus except the bottom two are 60 or above in averages.
I think you'll both change your mind in about 5 minutes as soon as you upgrade to a new cpu. And you'll probably see even games you thought were running well, were not, actually. Biggest change you'll get is not higher framerate, but more stable lows. Every game will run more fluid. Check out the .2 for Cyberpunk. All those cpus except the bottom two are 60 or above in averages.
Agreed. The only upgrade for me has been replacing an original Titan with the 2060, and sure, there's a bunch of games where the 4770 has been the obvious limitation, but there's just not enough right now to prompt me to get a new motherboard, CPU and RAM.
No reason to upgrade if you're satisfied. That is the beauty about the PC platform.
As for me, having faster cores, and more of them, make the overall experience of using a PC just that much nicer.. and substantially so in some ways. Quicker install times, quicker decompression, decryption, encoding, and just higher framerates in general which take advantage of other aspects of my setup such as my 175hz monitor. Lower input latency which comes with the faster framerate, higher 1% lows.. things like that. More PCIE lanes for more peripherals connected at once, and support for faster file transfers.
If you're wanting Windows 11 any time soon, then the upgrade may be essential. Better security, mitigations for vulnerabilities ect..
Other things to consider such as upgrade cycles. No sense in buying a new CPU that requires a socket that will soon be outdated, so waiting can be the smart thing to do. Everyone is different.. we all do different things with our PCs and value different aspects more than others.
A 3700X should be somewhere around ~50fps in that graph, extrapolating from the other results.Quite the thing that the CPU performance of a 3700X has been almost doubled in such a short time-frame in the CPU-world.
Obviously hardly anything on the gaming side. And possibly not much even in general PC use, either.If all the games I play (Bar a handful like 2007 Crysis release) run at a locked v-synced 60fps what will I notice if I upgrade CPU?
Drop in a 3770k for a quick and dirty performance boost?I'm definitely waiting things out with my 4c/4t 3570k as well. I have a bit more pain than you with just the four threads and also my desire to play some more demanding games, but so far nothing I'm desperate to play that I really need a better CPU for. I've got lots of games to play in the meantime, though I'm betting Starfield could be the game that really tests my patience.
A 3700X should be somewhere around ~50fps in that graph, extrapolating from the other results.
Obviously hardly anything on the gaming side. And possibly not much even in general PC use, either.
I'm definitely waiting things out with my 4c/4t 3570k as well. I have a bit more pain than you with just the four threads and also my desire to play some more demanding games, but so far nothing I'm desperate to play that I really need a better CPU for. I've got lots of games to play in the meantime, though I'm betting Starfield could be the game that really tests my patience.
My wife and daughter are still running Phenom IIs and they're pretty happy. Me and my son both are running the Ryzen 5 1600 and they're still holding up really well, but they're both overclocked to 3.9Ghz and have been since they've been installed.
What's really nuts is high-end Core 2 or Phenom II is still quite an acceptable experience for many things even if rather ancient. But this isn't really the forum to be talking about old hardware and expecting agreement.