Flyby Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I just love sharing. Don't you? :D http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,691811/Lynnfield-tested-Intel-Core-i5-750-and-Core-i7-860-benchmarked-in-Anno-1404-Dawn-of-Discovery/Reviews/ Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAM77 Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Dude I am loving you posting about i5 etc Am in the same position as I am running S939 :( Looking at the intial prices CPU i7 860 = $390 AUD i5 750 = $280 MOBO Asus P55 EVO = $330 Just waiting for the first round of mobo reviews to determine if I leave DFI and go Asus Intel i5 7600K @ 4.2GHz | 32GB G.Skill Trident RGB DDR4 @ 3200MHz | MSI RTX 4060 Gaming X 8G | WD Black NVMe 2TB | Sound Blaster Audigy RX | MSI Z270 Gaming M3 | Corsair H80i v2 | Corsair RM750x | Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS Flight Pack | TrackIR 5 | Windows 10 Home 64-bit | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyby Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 I'm too dizzy to think clear Dude I am loving you posting about i5 etc Am in the same position as I am running S939 :( Looking at the intial prices CPU i7 860 = $390 AUD i5 750 = $280 MOBO Asus P55 EVO = $330 Just waiting for the first round of mobo reviews to determine if I leave DFI and go Asus Hi Sam, I just committed to an upgrade path. I've purchased an i7-920 from Micro Center for the paltry sum of $200.00 USD. That price is nearly $80.00 les than elsewhere on the web, and that's money I can divert to a better GPU ( I like the GTX285 with it''s 512mb bus, but the '275 is a good buy too, imo). I'm waiting for a confirm, since it's a local-must-pick-it-up-at-the-store purchase. The website listed the remaining quantity at 4 units last night when I ordered. It'll be just my luck that by the time I should receive my confirm email I'll get one saying they are all sold out! But I'm glad you're getting some good info about the i5. Right now it looks as if the i5 series has tested very strong against the i7 when it comes to PC games. But I'm seeing the i7 as the longer, stronger performance upgrade path. I may be seeing that wrong. I wish Wags would weigh in here since he's so close to the future DCS gaming engine. Perhaps he could provide some divine insight as to which processor upgrade might serve DCS best/longest. I know it's hard to say, but there are people out there developing gaming engines right now (check this link out: http://www.devmaster.net/forums/index.php ), and they may be looking at the potential of the two processors. Here's another link that might be helpful for peering into the CPU future: http://www.cpu-world.com/index.html Still, a question remains. Will gaming engines take advantage of the other performance features the i7 has over the i5? Or is it really just a matter of GHZ that will rule our complex flight sim gaming performance over the next few years? My gamble is that the i7 road path will be the longer-winded path over the i5. Now to just prove that opinion. We'll see. Wags? Where are ya buddy? Flyby out 1 The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiss4luna Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 well, i'm now testing some i5 750s, i7 860s and i7 870s depends on the result and price, i will choose i7 860 RTX 3070 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyby Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 well, i'm now testing some i5 750s, i7 860s and i7 870s depends on the result and price, i will choose i7 860 hmmm...very interesting. You must tell us more about your testing. Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweinhart3 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 well, i'm now testing some i5 750s, i7 860s and i7 870s depends on the result and price, i will choose i7 860 I assume you work for Intel? Just curious what department. I work in TMG at D1C and I dont get to test new processors :( Intel i7 990X, 6GB DDR3, Nvidia GTX 470 x2 SLI, Win 7 x64 http://picasaweb.google.com/sweinhart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoNa Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 I would love to see some sim benchmarks on the 750/860/920 testing BS,IL2,FSX,Lockon,GTR2,Dirt2 All those sims require more CPU than GPU power. The test should include OC to see what possibilities they have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zokier Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 i5 looks lovely. I shouldn't be looking at reviews, they just make me want to upgrade, and I don't have the money.... Maybe if I pawned my TV.... Looks like a single core from i5 would be about as speedy as my current dualcore, and it has four of those frakking things. That would mean that I could double my fps in DCS:BS. And maybe try out OFP2 when it comes out. And ARMA2. And get hardware virtualization.... :drool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyby Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share Posted September 13, 2009 I would love to see some sim benchmarks on the 750/860/920 testing BS,IL2,FSX,Lockon,GTR2,Dirt2 All those sims require more CPU than GPU power. The test should include OC to see what possibilities they have. Even overclocking the cpu, these (flight) sims only use one core. At least the newer generation of processors can be overclocked to at least 3.6 on air cooling, thus one core at 3.6 is fairly speedy. The sims seem to respond to that, but they are not coded to use multiple cores. Let someone test the i5s on ROF, which is coded to use multiple cores. For us flight simmers, that might be a more relevant test, imo. Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoNa Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Even overclocking the cpu, these (flight) sims only use one core. At least the newer generation of processors can be overclocked to at least 3.6 on air cooling, thus one core at 3.6 is fairly speedy. The sims seem to respond to that, but they are not coded to use multiple cores. Let someone test the i5s on ROF, which is coded to use multiple cores. For us flight simmers, that might be a more relevant test, imo. Flyby out Forgot to add RoF on the list.:thumbup: Fully aware that these are not supported by multiple cores, but one i7-920 core at 4.0 has proven it more powerful than one C2D at 4.0. So it is still intresting to see what these "older" sims would gain with i5/i7 setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyby Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 Forgot to add RoF on the list.:thumbup: Fully aware that these are not supported by multiple cores, but one i7-920 core at 4.0 has proven it more powerful than one C2D at 4.0. So it is still intresting to see what these "older" sims would gain with i5/i7 setup. rgrt, I'd like to see those results anyway. Can't know too much, eh? ;) Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyby Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 dig this found this morning, an interesting testing of CPUs with FSX (among others) http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-gaming,2403-10.html Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoNa Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 (edited) found this morning, an interesting testing of CPUs with FSX (among others) http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-gaming,2403-10.html Flyby out Well... it's a really a GPU test... and the test they are doing sin not really showing anything but how well diffrent GPUs work with different CPUs. And it seems like they did not know how to test FSX really. Really got me hoping there :thumbup: Edited September 14, 2009 by CoNa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyby Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 yeah, it's mainly a GPU test (my bad for jumping the gun). interesting, beyond FSX about how the multiple GPUs scale. as I assemble my gaming rig, it's interesting to see how the different games scale with SLI vs Crossfire. Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoNa Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Here is an intresting benchmark for FSX http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=647 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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