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Arxontas
In what way exactly will the new platform benefit gamers?
ANANDTECH ran an article about memory scaling on Haswell, wherein they tested 3GHz DDR3 RAM, and found that there is not a single game which is memory bottlenecked in the market currently. Am I missing something?
I might as well add that I am sitting here with my 4770k running at stock and playing games just fine. At present I do not see a need to overclock the 4770k. If a 4770k can run every game in the market at stock just fine, I don't see how the Haswell extreme might benefit me.
You claim it "will benefit gamers". I am a gamer. How exactly will it benefit me?
I have read that games (though this does not happen in the majority of them) can actually get a plus in fps when a RAM with a higher clock speed and/or less modules are used. However, I as far as I can remember, I only read this in a printed magazine (which is called PC Games Hardware, but it is not an English magazine), you might be able to find it on the internet too, though. In this magazine, it was shown in benchmarks (multiple times in multiple issues) that this "effect" could increase the fps of games in very diverse numbers, in some games it was only around 4 fps, in others it was around 10 fps.
But again, similar benchmarks might be on the internet too.
I would say that it depends on how one defines if a games can be "played just fine", for me personally it would probably be the minimum fps value I can achieve at a certain resolution. For me, this value should never (not in
any situation, except from ones that can hardly be avoided, for example, if data has to be loaded) go below the refresh rate of my monitor. This is not the case for my monitor currently, but this refresh rate could not be the "usual" 60 Hz, but for example double this rate, 120 Hz, or maybe even 144 Hz (for reference, I am using a monitor with a resolution of 1920x1200 and a refresh rate of 60 Hz at the moment). Then, I would need about double the power.
But, and this actually annoys me quite a bit at the moment, I have read in many benchmarks that games that are not very well optimized for mutiple threads, mostly older games (and those games unfortunately do not even have to be that old, basically most games which can use only 4 threads or less), are displayed with the highest fps when the cpu you are using, the 4770K, is being used. Nothing against your choice of cpu, but I am just saying that games should be made to use at least 8 threads (which your cpu has, too), which even most of the very recently released games do not do.