Well, I got the Sandy Bridge Itch and decided to upgrade. I had an I5-750@ 3.6ghz which ran great. At the time it was the slowest of the Intel chips, but still faster than the fastest AMD chip. I was even able to run it at4.0ghz, but while temps were still within specs, they ran a little too close to max.
Old Mobo ASUS MaximusIII:
The I5-2500K is a fun chip. I OC'd it to 4.6ghz before I even loaded the operating system. Even @4.6ghz, the temps don't even come close to the I5-750
New Mobo ASUS Maximus IV:
My only complaint is these new bios operating systems that let you use a mouse take quite a bit longer to load. With my old mobo, boot up was only like 20 seconds, now it takes 20 seconds to load the bios. I also increased the amount of ram to 16 gigs from four. Messing around I noticed no difference performance wise, 8 gigs or sixteen. But BF3 map loading times were cut in half going from 4 to 8. With the SLI'd GTX460's I have I got some where around a 20 to 30 frame rate increase in game.
I always like to have two rigs, so for the second I went AMD/ATI. I took a 3.5ghz Phenom and overclocked it to 4.0 Corsair 750watt modular PSU, 8gigs of ram. The graphics card is a MSI R6870 Hawk Radeon HD 6870 1GB. I also used an MSI mobo for this build.
New build, back up/guest gaming rig:
Frame rate in BF3 isn't bad, averages some where between 40 to 50fps. Basically it's a machine for my wife and friends to use, or if I blow my system up, so for that purpose its great. Again, the only problem I have is the Bios boot time, although its only about 20 seconds longer, I'm used windows already being started. The AMD chip was a great value, wound up getting it for under 130$ with a bundle deal with the ram. The ram wound up only being 22$ per 4gig stick which is crazy. I remember almost 20 years ago paying $400.00 for 8megs!
It's also nice having 2 machines in the house to keep the kids quiet, Here's my 7year daughter pwning our friends 10 year old son in BF3 who's only used to and XBOX.
Old Mobo ASUS MaximusIII:
The I5-2500K is a fun chip. I OC'd it to 4.6ghz before I even loaded the operating system. Even @4.6ghz, the temps don't even come close to the I5-750
New Mobo ASUS Maximus IV:
My only complaint is these new bios operating systems that let you use a mouse take quite a bit longer to load. With my old mobo, boot up was only like 20 seconds, now it takes 20 seconds to load the bios. I also increased the amount of ram to 16 gigs from four. Messing around I noticed no difference performance wise, 8 gigs or sixteen. But BF3 map loading times were cut in half going from 4 to 8. With the SLI'd GTX460's I have I got some where around a 20 to 30 frame rate increase in game.
I always like to have two rigs, so for the second I went AMD/ATI. I took a 3.5ghz Phenom and overclocked it to 4.0 Corsair 750watt modular PSU, 8gigs of ram. The graphics card is a MSI R6870 Hawk Radeon HD 6870 1GB. I also used an MSI mobo for this build.
New build, back up/guest gaming rig:
Frame rate in BF3 isn't bad, averages some where between 40 to 50fps. Basically it's a machine for my wife and friends to use, or if I blow my system up, so for that purpose its great. Again, the only problem I have is the Bios boot time, although its only about 20 seconds longer, I'm used windows already being started. The AMD chip was a great value, wound up getting it for under 130$ with a bundle deal with the ram. The ram wound up only being 22$ per 4gig stick which is crazy. I remember almost 20 years ago paying $400.00 for 8megs!
It's also nice having 2 machines in the house to keep the kids quiet, Here's my 7year daughter pwning our friends 10 year old son in BF3 who's only used to and XBOX.
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