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For 1680 x 1050 the GTX 285 is kind of overkill - the 260 would likely give you nearly identical frame rates.
Not true. TF2 is pretty demanding on my 4870 512 with 8x AA and Max AF at 1680x1050.
isn't TF2 heavily CPU limited?
Thats always the impression when I see people with 4870s/GTX2x0s saying they dip down in the 30s during heavy battles. Like 32 people battles
LeviathanZERO said:Good lord man, i have a e6750, what kind of cooler you got on that thing? 3.52 is the highest i can go(stable)
They will have to one way or another within the near future.Personally, I would go with the E8600 because I'm still not convinced developers are gonna quit being lazy and start writing multi-thread apps.
They will have to one way or another within the near future.
They won't really have a choice. Intel and AMD are both moving to more highly-parallel CPUs rather than faster individual cores, so for software devs to take advantage of the extra power of newer CPUs, they'll have to multithread their apps. It's going slowly, but it will definitely happen.Trust me, I really really hope they do, but it seems that its not being pushed as strongly as it should be...
They won't really have a choice. Intel and AMD are both moving to more highly-parallel CPUs rather than faster individual cores, so for software devs to take advantage of the extra power of newer CPUs, they'll have to multithread their apps. It's going slowly, but it will definitely happen.
Personally, I would go with the E8600 because I'm still not convinced developers are gonna quit being lazy and start writing multi-thread apps.
They will have to one way or another within the near future.
Trust me, I really really hope they do, but it seems that its not being pushed as strongly as it should be...
Right now I have an E6750 at 3.8GHz. The CPU upgrade is mainly because of Team Fortress 2, in heavy battles I get down to the 30-40 FPS zone and it's not too pleasant. I have different options for an upgrade. The most efficient money wise I found it to be an E8600, a GTX 285 (currently I have an ATI HD4870 512 MB) and one terrabyte drive. The CPU upgrade won't cost me very much if I choose the E8600.
Not true. TF2 is pretty demanding on my 4870 512 with 8x AA and Max AF at 1680x1050.
SpeedEuphoria said:How much ram do you have?