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HOLY BALLS BATMAN! I just increased my clock speed from 3.3 to 4.5478Ghz. Witcher 2 went from 40-60 to consistently 60+ (avg 70's in high density areas, 80-90 in the forest near Flotsam). Battlefield 3 went from 50-70 to consistently in the 70's. Checking Tera now. How could this beast of a CPU have held me back so much?
Btw, I checked my GPU activity, both seem to be working at full capacity
lol, I'm glad to hear that u solved your problem.
"How could this beast of a CPU have held me back so much?"
well to be honest the 2500K is not that beast
I always say its better to get a CPU with better single core performance than to get a multicolor CPU with lower core performance. for example a X CPU that has only 2 cores and each core gets 2 points in CINEBENCH is better than a Y CPU with 4 cores that get 1 point in CINEBENCH . Why you ask?
well because if you look at how a software or a game that support multicolor CPU is coded then you would see that game logic would be handled on the first core and physics would be handled on second core and data loading and etc.. would be handled on the third core. If one of these cores is maxed out, meaning that the usage on that particular core is at 100% load then your frame rate would drop because that core is not fast enough to process the physics or game logic or what ever.
so that core is holding your FPS back.
so lets say your 2500K at stock speed was getting in CINEBENCH software 1.0 point on a single core. Now you went and OCed your CPU to lets say 4.5GHz, your score now on only one core is 1.5 point. Now physics or game logic can be processed faster and without bottleneck.
