Unfortunately, at any clock, the Thuban architecture (and Deneb as well) will bottleneck GPUs. Of course, overclocking will alleviate this a little bit, but the architecture is simply the limiting factor. No amount of clock speed can compensate for that.
In fact, it will even bottleneck a single GTX 570.
Originally Posted by PanicProne;13926988
Unfortunately, at any clock, the Thuban architecture (and Deneb as well) will bottleneck GPUs. Of course, overclocking will alleviate this a little bit, but the architecture is simply the limiting factor. No amount of clock speed can compensate for that.
In fact, it will even bottleneck a single GTX 570.
Originally Posted by philhalo66;13927032
only games i really play are crysis 1 and 2, source games and halo 1 BC2 got old very fast once the hacks started showing up.
what about 3 570's? will a 4GHz 2600K bottleneck them?
i figure since I'm building a new rig i might as well get top of the line and be future proof for a while. plus crysis spanks 2 570's at 2560x1600 maxed out
Probably WANTS that kind of power period, regardless of the games he plays, I rarely ever play more than 3-5 games on my pc at all anymore. Personally I just like knowing that if I ever wanted to rip DVD's or draw something up in CAD or Photoshop, that I just could. OP prolly just wants to be ready for anything.
ballathefeared says yes, but he's on holiday again with all that intel money
an x6 1100 would do alright, but a i5 2600 or some soon to be released BD would do a lot better
i5-2500k is all you need for gaming, HT is for professional applications that can actually really use it. Some games do get a benefit from it, however they're few and far between because the number of games that actually benefit from more than 4 cores is a very small list.
1090T @ 4GHz with 2 5850s (which are slower than 570s btw)
i7-2600k @ 4.8GHz (because it took all of a minute to boot at 4.8GHz)
He also overclocked the cards higher, because it actually mattered.
Unless you have a really high res, 570 sli is a waste of money on Thuban, and if you have a really high res (like surround) 570 sli is too weak anyways.
OP with a H70 (not the best choice) you should be able to run between 4.5 to 4.8GHz 24/7 with either a i7 or i5.
3 570s @ 1080p in Crysis 1 is going to require a lot of cpu, crysis 1 is very cpu depended. My 470s @ 1080 with 900 core are not bottlenecked in Crysis 1, with very high and no AA I get around 78 fps, with 8x AA I get around 68 fps. These same cards on a 4Ghz 1100T would only net me about 48 FPS. With high enough IQ 16x with tri 570s you should see excellent scaling from the third card even @ 1080.
Go for the 2500k lol. My old Thuban bottlenecked a single 580, to the point where my overclocked vantage score was lower than stock clocks on compared Intel builds.
^What he said.
Ahahahaha,he also said it would "bottleneck any card".
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Originally Posted by Dmac73
All you cats spewing that a 1100T will NOT bottleneck a 570 or a high end card for that matter are flat wrong. Maybe in some instances it won't, but on games that are fairly CPU dependant, even at 1080p, will gain excellent frames from a better architecture.
I'd rather take it from a guy who has a setup with one,than a Intel fanboy who spams that it does.
All you cats spewing that a 1100T will NOT bottleneck a 570 or a high end card for that matter are flat wrong. Maybe in some instances it won't, but on games that are fairly CPU dependant, even at 1080p, will gain excellent frames from a better architecture.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
Go for the 2500k lol. My old Thuban bottlenecked a single 580, to the point where my overclocked vantage score was lower than stock clocks on compared Intel builds.
Here is the review you need to read OP. The Phenom II X4 980 (3.7GHz) gets smacked around for the most part by an i5 2400 (3.1GHz) in lower resolutions and settings, but as soon as you crank the settings (resolution and AA), the GPUs are the ones that become the slowest factor, which wouldn't change whether you had a 4.8GHz CPU or not. At 2560x1600 and 8xAA (which is doable for most games with 570 SLI) they are about the same.
That being said, the i5-2500k is obviously the better choice anyways, so this all come down to money. If you can upgrade just your CPU vs. the motherboard and CPU, it might be OK. If you're OK with spending more money, or were going to build a new rig anyways, the i5 2500k wins.
Those are all with 570 SLI.
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