AMD or Intel?

[baronWastelan]

For $330 it's hard to argue against a I7-2600K, esp if you already have some DDR3 RAM on hand.

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

For $330 it's hard to argue against a I7-2600K, esp if you already have some DDR3 RAM on hand.

For that much you can get a high end AMD phenom AND high end video card which will run CoD fine.

[the Dutchman]

I,m thinking about buying a laptop,so i can take it with me....much more expensive though,but there are some nice laptops around,i especially like the Asus ones;

Asus K72JR-TY159V(i5-7 core,Ati 1gig,4gigs of memory)should run CoD fine!

[F19_lacrits]

We will have to wait for some IL2 CLoDO benchmarks to be able to answer which CPU brand is the better one..
Most games in general need GPU power and not CPU power. But sims with alot of calculation going on can really benefit from CPU power. But then it also depends if they like high frequency, many cores, lots of L2 and L3 cache etc.. All CPU models have their little peculiarities that differentiate them from others.

I'm still running IL2 on my Win XP, overclocked Core 2 Duo E8400, 2 GIG RAM and Radeon 4850.. It runs very smooth and nice!
What affected my expirience the most was conf.ini and it's settings. When I got that worked out it was no problems with FPS or stutters.
We might see the same With CLoDO, alot of the performance can be had from tweaking the settings..

[xnomad]

I haven't been in the gaming hardware market since maybe 2003. I'm completely overwhelmed by all the choices these days; I've completely lost touch!

I'm tending towards the intel i5-2400 what do you guys think?

Tom's hardware reckons that it's only marginally worse than the i5-2500K and you won't even notice the difference, plus it's much cheaper. It also has some good over-all scores beating a few of the i7 series. Only problem is this intel H67/P67 chipset issue that kind of stops you buying a Socket 1155 motherboard at the moment!

Also why is anyone even going for the i5-2500k rather than just the i5-2500? Look at the specs on the intel site. The only difference I can see is that the 'k' version has virtualization technology that you won't need for gaming unless you are running Xen etc. for dedicated servers or something why pay the extra for the 'k'??? In fact the 2400 has VT; So you want to run Xen? Then get that

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by xnomad

Also why is anyone even going for the i5-2500k rather than just the i5-2500? Look at the specs on the intel site. The only difference I can see is that the 'k' version has virtualization technology that you won't need for gaming unless you are running Xen etc. for dedicated servers or something why pay the extra for the 'k'??? In fact the 2400 has VT; So you want to run Xen? Then get that

The fact that 2500k can reach 5GHz makes a pretty strong case. 2600k on the other hand equals waste of money for gaming. Skip the 2400 and go for the 2500 - once chipset issues are sorted out. And don't believe everything Tom says.

[ChrisDNT]

Only clever thing to do NOW is to wait until next month to see how good or how bad AMD Bulldozer is.

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by T}{OR

The fact that 2500k can reach 5GHz makes a pretty strong case. 2600k on the other hand equals waste of money for gaming. Skip the 2400 and go for the 2500 - once chipset issues are sorted out. And don't believe everything Tom says.

Your buying a Ferrari to drive in a parking garage!! Dont waste so much money.

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by xnomad

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Also why is anyone even going for the i5-2500k rather than just the i5-2500? Look at the specs on the intel site. The only difference I can see is that the 'k' version has virtualization technology that you won't need for gaming unless you are running Xen etc. for dedicated servers or something why pay the extra for the 'k'??? In fact the 2400 has VT; So you want to run Xen? Then get that

The K versions are the only overclockable ones.

And as T}{OR says it is possible to get up to VERY high speeds - 4.9 to 5Ghz.

Also, tests I read in Custom PC magazine suggested a larger difference between the i5-2400 and i5-2500 than Tom's Hardware apparently does (and a much bigger difference than that between the i5-2500 and i7-2600)

Reviews I have read are all in agreement - the 2500K is the one to get for gaming.

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by xnomad

I haven't been in the gaming hardware market since maybe 2003. I'm completely overwhelmed by all the choices these days; I've completely lost touch!

I'm tending towards the intel i5-2400 what do you guys think?

Tom's hardware reckons that it's only marginally worse than the i5-2500K and you won't even notice the difference, plus it's much cheaper. It also has some good over-all scores beating a few of the i7 series. Only problem is this intel H67/P67 chipset issue that kind of stops you buying a Socket 1155 motherboard at the moment!

Also why is anyone even going for the i5-2500k rather than just the i5-2500? Look at the specs on the intel site. The only difference I can see is that the 'k' version has virtualization technology that you won't need for gaming unless you are running Xen etc. for dedicated servers or something why pay the extra for the 'k'??? In fact the 2400 has VT; So you want to run Xen? Then get that

Just get an AMD X6 and you'll be fine and save lots of money.