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chickenbeef
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ROFL, i smell a thumbsuck
scotty777
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well, considering that the the GPU is better, it might give more FPS, but that would be only with a 3.5ghz over.
But why tf get an E5200? rather an E7500, it's got a 10.5 multiplier and a 1066 FSB, so up that to 1333 and you get 3.5ghz without a hassle
. However, I say get an i5, and get the HD4890 if you buying in the next month or so... if you only buying later, wait for Nvidia to release their new Fermi cards, that should make AMD/ATI lower the price of the HD5000 series.
The_Techie
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Why are people so quick to say that everyone will be CPU-limited in games? 
The following tests were conducted with an NVIDIA GTX280 and an Intel Core i7 965, which is not that much faster in games than an Intel Core2-based CPU.
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The following tests were conducted with an NVIDIA GTX280 and an Intel Core i7 965, which is not that much faster in games than an Intel Core2-based CPU.
Test setup
Results
Just a small extract:
scotty777
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Why are people so quick to say that everyone will be CPU-limited in games?
The following tests were conducted with an NVIDIA GTX280 and an Intel Core i7 965, which is not that much faster in games than an Intel Core2-based CPU.
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Just a small extract:
Well, a fast core2quad will be very close to an i7.
However, you can't compare an E5200 to an i5
But games like GTA 4 suffer with dual cores...
The_Techie
Resident Techie
At similar speeds they will have similar performance in most games as, and I cannot stress this enough, most games rely on the GPU and not the CPU for performance. Especially since about 90% of games can only use one CPU core as it is.
However, you can't compare an E5200 to an i5
I'm not, the i5 is certainly the best-performing of the two. However I showed that for gaming it doesn't matter as much and you shouldn't buy a faster CPU under the false impression that your current CPU will bottleneck the GPU.
That is a discussion of dual core vs quad core, outside the scope of the point I was trying to make.
EDIT: The point I was trying to make was that the E5200 + HD4890 system should indeed outperform the i5 + GTS250 system without the need for an overclock beyond the stock 2.5GHz.
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The_Techie
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I'd just like to point out that I'd go for the faster CPU as well, but for reasons other than gaming
DJNgoma
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I'd just like to point out that I'd go for the faster CPU as well, but for reasons other than gaming
+1
I've got a Pentium D 940 lying around and scored 6000+/- in 3DMark06 compared to my Q9550 that scores 15000+/- both on stock with a 4890.