A solid 6 core CPU can easily handle any game, even modern ones. We haven't even seen anything that is pushing current gen consoles yet.
The i7-980X was the most future-proof CPU I ever owned. I finally retired it from my backup PC only last year. It still went toe to toe with the best of them in strictly gaming applications well into 2018.
Still have one but the Xeon X5680. Even though it lacks avx instructions and some modern games wont even run its still usable even today.
True enough, and it did cost me an arm and a leg when I got it, but I did get incredible mileage out of it. Dare I say I wouldn't get as much out of any contemporary CPU in its price range. Maybe 5 years, tops.
A friend of mine spent over 2 grand on a 980x system from Dell with a 2 gig 5850, The system I built a month later with a 560 Ti and E7200 beat him in gaming benchmarks. And it was only around $900.
You mean as core2duo e7200? It predates Nehalem first gen i7 so that cant be right. You messed something up it was long time ago.
Hm you are actually right. They came same year tho. E7200 like you said was a measly 2c/2t while 980x was a beheemoth 6c/12t cpu. Well, the victory didnt last long. Games started using more cores right after and that famous thing futureproof we like to talk about here took place.
I remember it very clearly because I won 3 grand at the casino and the next morning I told my friend "I'll build a system for half the price of yours and it will be better in gaming." He never took up the challenge. He spent a grand on a CPU but skimped out on a good GPU. And that E7200 was probably the best overclocker I've ever seen. I think I had it close to 4ghz on the stock cooler.
Friendly reminder that even console Jaguar cores caused issues with PC ports due to how much better optimized console architectures are. This time they have real CPUs. The split between CPU and GPU memory spaces, and PCIe storage, will hurt us much more this time around. Microsoft seems to be trying to mitigate it with Direct Storage, HAGS and by properly supporting BAR, let's hope it won't end up so badly. I think we'll see some incredible stuff, mostly from the Sony side of things again.
I've said it before and now that I've watched the HU video I'll say it again - Rocket Lake is giving me Prescott vibes. It's like Comet Lake and Rocket Lake are Northwood and Prescott all over again, 20 years later.
Alder lake will take about a year. And will be 8C + 8c max. So another year to catch 5800x. And maybe 2 or 3 years to catch 5950x.
Prescott made me switch to AMD for the first time. Edit: Actually that's wrong I had an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ in 2004
tbh everyone who says you need those extra cores for background tasks like youtube is mistaken.you don't.if your cpu/gpu can handle the game,it can handle playing a couple of videos and having a few apps runnings. i'd only be worried with 8g ram.
Yeeeeeeeeep. We always get the short end of the stick in NA especially with prices. I was actually able to get a 5900X from a computer store in London, Ontario for over 150$ MSRP. It's not scalper levels but still an availability tax. Only the GPU left to get for my new build.
Only thing I can see more cores being nice for is productivity and compiling. For gaming eh. 8 is enough easy. 6 will do for now too for a good while. 4 is kind of lagging with newer games. For me I never thought about gaming when I got my 3900x as a priority I went with the fact that I run virtual environments and do programming.
