Building PC for friend

[SPS]

Mushkin silverline

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Mushkin silverline

You'll be fine then

 

[alienware]

Cores in gaming are normally like a 5th wheel on a car.

I would say this however, when testing Crysis 2, I noticed an E8400 (overclocked heavily), showed both cores at 100% for practically all the playing time. Not exactly a slouch of a cpu.

I'd get confirmation off someone who's played the off-the-shelf version, as there are often test routines running in beta apps and of course some finishing off to do.

May be an anomally, and if you don't care about the 1 game and/or you're not bothered about playing a game whilst something akin to orthos is running, it may be irrelevant.

(A Q9650 it leveled out core use sensibly)

I'll try and check my core usage later. Although I do confess I am running it at 720p but I'm not sure how much a higher res would put onto a CPU?

I have it on hardcore though. No stutters, nothing.

Was his in DX11?

 

[Rastalovich]

Nah, I was miffed with the Dx11 release as I'd played the game to death before it came out.

Resolution I use for testing and gaming is 1920x1200, and either a 570 or 480, so massive settings. I'm pretty sure the 580 wasn't at hand to use.

Iirc at the time, I dropped in the quad core as-soon as I saw the dual being totally maxxed. One of the handiest things with the G15 is a constant reading of cpu/cores and memory use in and out of games.

My logic with taking the quad out of that particular rig was that it would never be used by the games it was testing, and the e8400 clocks like a mofo. Sometimes you get a game that acts as an exception tho.

Now that I'm done with the game, I could feasibly drop it back in.

 

[SPS]

You'll be fine then

Why do you mention the RAM voltage?

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Why do you mention the RAM voltage?

Incase he wants to overclock to 1600Mhz later down the line