CPUs as performance bottlenecks

[Xen]

NJ5 said:

Xen said:

Slimebeast said:

Obviously u should get a Radeon 6950 rather than the Geforce 560Ti. Faster for the same price and it's  AMD instead of Nvidia.

The Core i5 2500K is overpowered for either of those GPUs but it's good as a future proof since you can switch GPU to a twice or three times as fast in a couple of years and still keep the CPU to feed it without a problem.
(id buy a Phenom II personally but that's it's because I don't like Intel)

Basically Khuutra you need to make a choice and ask yourself if you will keepthe whole package for 3-4 years or if you will want to go with the split strategy and upgrade the GPU in two years. Because in the first scenario the CPU is overpowered for the whole lifetime.

That doesn't make it better, that only makes it worse. Driver support for ATI cards is another kind of horrid. And Intel's CPU's run circles around AMD's these days, you're not in 2005 anymore. In any and all benchmarks that I've seen Phenom II's got beat by i7's.

You have a good build lined up for you, go for it Khuutra.

 

ATI (now called AMD) graphics drivers are just fine today, it's not 2005 anymore...

1. True. And yet, what logo do you see on the GPU boxes? Ah, yes, ATI.

2. If they were, I wouldn't have said that they are problematic. Prowl around some newegg Radeon GPU reviews.