Question about graphic card & about directx

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

The fact that my hardware post was used by Creative assembly and pinned at the top of their forums for the guide on pc hardware? The fact that I compete in EVGA rig competitions. Also I have about 5-6 computers running atm of various ages for work, so I am familiar with a range of setups.
Sandybridge is not worth the extra $, you are paying for an integrated gpu on a cpu thats not needed. Above that sandybridge is the same as gulftown except the architecture was shrunk and they slaped on that integrated gpu then marked up the price. If you get a 40nm i7/i5 you can overclock it to 4.25+ghz on air stable, and 4.5-4.75 with a good water cooling system. Also buying an i5 is retarded if you want to keep the pc for any amount of time, how long are those 4 threads going to last you when BF3 comes out later this year and uses 8? For now its ok but it has no lasting ability as more companies come out with heavily threaded engines.

In addition the fact that you picked the 15 2500 is lol worthy. You do realise for like $20 more you could of got the K which has the better integrated GPU, and has a unlocked multiplier for overclocking? If you bought it, dumb decision you should of read more.

@Codex - no they are not really comparable, the 980 wins out, and those tests were favourable to the i5, so keep your thinking cap on ok? If a program only uses 4 threads then of course there will not be a large performance differance, some of those programs were from 2007... Now on the otherhand I have 12 threads and 6 cores, which means an immediate 33% boost due to the cores and up to (but unlikely) 3x more performance with heavily threaded programs (graphics design etc).

As for my CPU I needed it for rendering for Autodesk/Maya cgi, I also intend this pc to last for a bit so will be eventually adding another 12g of ram, and 2 more 580s with a nice raptor raid setup or even better SSDs. So to be bottlenecked by the CPU would suck, which wont happen when I overclock the 980x to 4ghz+...

I bought the i5 2500k - But I am not going to argue with your logic, as money does not appear to be a deciding factor for you.
For me it was and the i5 2500k serves me well. I am however interested in your statement that battlefield 3 will utilise 8 cores.
I have not played any game yet that has come even close to using even 3 cores effectively let alone 4 properly.
For what you do for a living 8 cores may be the way to go.
But the i5 2500k is a good cpud that overclocks well and if you want to blow most of your budget on a graphic's card which is what clod demands then the small performance boost an i7 gives is not worth the money


Just realised you also suggested cheaper options than mine in the i7 line. Have to agree with you on that.