[QUOTE="Obiwan_1O"]

[QUOTE="Lox_Cropek"]Yeah, I highly doubt that 930 is a bottleneck.

hartsickdiscipl

ok well I can guarantee it is bottlenecking my 7970, all benchmarks, tests and frames prove my CPU is the weakest link ATM. you all should know that just because its an i7 that dosnt mean squat for gaming, more cores just dont help for gaming.

That's nonsense. There are a ton of games out there that use quad-cores. Your 3.8ghz i7-930 is still a very fast CPU. It shouldn't be struggling with anything.

I repeat, you are putting words in my mouth. nothing is STRUGGLING, my i7930 IS still very fast, HOWEVER it is the weakest part of my setup no matter how fast it is period.

I want to preface by saying that I can play any game smoothly with max settings so >30 fps at this point im still happy with the CPU and planning on waiting for haswell to upgrade. Having said that for instance every test/benchmark that specifies CPU is always my lowest score such as in my windows experience index where every single option is 7.9 with the CPU at 7.6. Now some games that could have higher frames and arent like at 60fps are total war shogun 2, empire total war, battlefield 3, GW2, the witcher 2, borderlands 2 (with max physx), batman AC, Metro 2033, and crysis 2. For gaming core clock speed and more efficent clock speed (which his used and what I was hoping for cheap 2500k has the advantage with) are king. Games simply cannot utilize all 8 cores on my CPU and shogun is a perfect example of that, the game should be a joke but its not >60fps b/c it dosent utilize the cores for squat. I rape at handbrake and BOINC though ;D

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="Obiwan_1O"]BTW is your 2500k in good condition? ill buy it if you are interested in selling as my CPU is my bottleneck. 7.6 WEI and 7.9 every single other thing. also im serious pm me.Lox_Cropek

A 3.8ghz i7-930 "bottleneck." LMAO.

ok well I can guarantee it is bottlenecking my 7970, all benchmarks, tests and frames prove my CPU is the weakest link ATM. you all should know that just because its an i7 that dosnt mean squat for gaming, more cores just dont help for gaming.

unplug the power cable, hold power button for 10 seconds, plug back in, turn on. worth a shot...

Ivy bridge, its faster, and more energy effecient. Yes it gets a little hotter, but thats because your going from 32nm to 22nm transistors, meaning they are closer together and undoubtly create more heat. That doesnt mean its worse. The only thing you are gaining from an i5 2500 to a i7 2700 is hyperthreading. what you gain from a sandy bridge to an ivy bridge is a more optimized architecture

way2funny

agreed, whats the point of upgrading if your not even gonna change when u already have a SB