(10-06-2016, 02:33 AM)teh_speleegn_polease Wrote: [ -> ]Am I the only one that buys on amazon and is happy?
Happy people don't usually post about it. You'll only see angry posts and reviews
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CPU rant incoming related to 3D Vision.
I'm sad about the current CPU market. 3D Vision makes games both more CPU and GPU demanding (CPU performance reduction is between 33 and 66 %, depending on the game and scene). Compensating GPU demands is easy: you can lower settings, resolution, buy a new GPU of the same price bracket a generation later and get >60% more performance (or wait a pair more years and get a lot more all of a sudden), etc. But CPUs aren't advancing at the rate we need, and now we 3D gamers are starting to notice its effects since recently.
My big PC upgrades:
- In 2013:
- Went from the Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 3.5GHz to the Intel i5 4670K @ 4.3 GHz. Insane increase in performance since I was limited by both IPC and number of cores.
- Went from the ATI 4890 to the Nvidia GTX 760. Around 2.5x the performance. This time I was mostly GPU limited, unlike with the previous PC.
- In 2014:
- Went from a 1080p monitor that could do 76Hz to the BenQ XL2411Z and bought the 3D Vision 2 kit at the same time. My GPU needs became bigger and the wait for Pascal was driving me mad (didn't buy a 970 later because of the 3.5GB scandal).
- In 2016:
- There isn't any CPU worth the money for me. Nothing will increase my single core performance by a significant margin (unless I could be luckier in the silicon lottery this time. I have a Noctua NH-D14 and I can't get totally stable 4.4GHz).
- I went from the GTX 760 to the GTX 1080. Around 4x the performance. Even then, I'm GPU limited in some games when I play at 2560x1440 in 3D. 50% more GPU performance would solve that
. But as I said above in my post, I can compansate this in some ways.
Some examples (always talking about 3D). In Tales of Zestiria, with the 60fps fix, I get around 40fps in big cities and 60fps everywhere else (thatnkfully I can get more fps by reducing draw distance and LOD, but it still isn't perfect). In The Witcher 3 I get 37-45fps in Novigrad. I can't do anything to improve that. In Batman Arkham Origins, like 55fps fps sometimes when gliding, so I'm almost there. For Shadow of the Colossus with EE Overclock in PCSX2 to make the game 60fps internally, I'll need that 100% mor performance :p. Final Fantasy XIII-2, around 50fps in battles, so I need 20% more performance at least.
I hope Cannonlake isn't a shit upgrade from Kaby Lake and that it clocks well. What I want for some recent games ranges from 50% to 100% (that 100% is mostly for emulators, I admit) more single core performance than what my 4670K @ 4.3GHz gives me.
The rant is over. I want to freeze myself for 50 years and play what now will be called old games in 16K, 3D and/or VR, HDR and thousands of fps.