[Jov4nTh3Yu9o]

What is the most CPU heavy game to date? I want to run a little benchmark of my own and need a real demanding game.

 

[sccr64472]

Flight simulators and RTS games with very high unit limits will all tax the cpu heavily. I don't know if you'll find a single game that rises above all else, but the previous statement should give you what you're looking for.

 

[WALSRU]

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, big engagements involved a lot of physics and it runs 4 cores.

Probably not the MOST cpu heavy game since it's older.

 

[Wr3ckin_Cr3w]

Bc2?

 

[The_Rocker]

Flight Simulator X is probably the big one. Supreme Commander is another. Stuff that hass a mass of multiple calculations to perform at the same time.

Counterstrike with a ton of bots running locally? Garry's Mod?

Source games do use the CPU a fair amount.

 

[Ysbl]

2V2 in Starcraft 2 is pretty CPU heavy, and GTA4 could bring 2500K to it's knees.

 

[robert125381]

i know wow is up there

 

[Pandaga]

Nexus wars in Starcraft 2

 

[Hobybobag]

Starcraft 2 is insanely cpu heavy, my frame rate drops by about 60 during big battles if my cpu isnt overclocked

 

[obsidian86]

arma or gta 4

 

[kyle7412]

Black ops, when it first came out. I would sit in the menu screen and my cpu would be at 100% :O

 

[Jov4nTh3Yu9o]

Alright thanks, I don't have any flight simulators at the moment, but I do have Shogun II which I can max out anyway. The Reason I'm asking is because newer games like Rage look like they takes a lot of processing power and aside from my plans to upgrade to a new gpu I was thinking of possibly upgrading my cpu as well.

 

[Hobybobag]

you could also get liquid cooling and push that i7 a bit further, the 920 can get pretty fast with a hard enough overclock

 

[Rayleyne]

Tbh i think your I7 920 will be fine, i honestly wouldn't worry about it for a while.

 

[That Guy]

Crysis 1, XYZ physics demonstration custom map.

 

[Skrillex]

GTAIV eats quad cores and high end cards and spits out not even constant 60fps at max settings.

 

[rdrdrdrd]

Dwarf fortress taxes the cpu a lot, mostly because its single core and poorly optimized, but once a fortress gets big enough your cpu cries

 

[CocoCrunch]

Starcraft 2 uses the CPU alot.

 

[Jov4nTh3Yu9o]

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you could also get liquid cooling and push that i7 a bit further, the 920 can get pretty fast with a hard enough overclock

I was thinking of going for a hex-core
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Tbh i think your I7 920 will be fine, i honestly wouldn't worry about it for a while.

But then again I might wait till socket 2011

 

[slickwilly]

Starcraft 2

I recently turned HT off and SC2 is the only game I play that I notice it in

i think the most taxing spot is the one you play as Protos against the Zerg hybrid
in the final battle in the Zeratol missions