disolitude said:
dahuman said:
disolitude said:
dharh said:
Yes and no. Often the reason to having one the newer CPUs is memory speed supported. You're mostly right though. Being GPU bound is the usual suspect for poor performance. |
You're right but most of us have some DDR2 memory around and older parts that could put together to make a solid gaming rig. One just needs to slap a current gen GPU and they should be good to go.
Look at my situation... I took a 3 way SLI AM2+ mobo (Asus M3NHT), 8 GB of DDR2 800 memory and Phenom X4 940 BE and overclocked the crap out of them. They are running Crysis 2 on 3 monitors as good as my friends newly built i5 2500k rig with DDR3 1600 Memory with same GPU hardware.
PCIe 3.0 vs 2.0 also makes no difference.
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you are right on the PCIe 3 makes no difference, for now, that will change in 2014 or 2015 though, which is still 1-2 years away lol
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You may be right but I can't see GPUs needing to push more than 8 GB/s in data in the near future. I know they will be able to, but what will need them to push that much badwidth is still a mistery to me... 4K 3 screen gaming? lol
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even with 2 GB video cards in SLI or CF, super high res gaming still isn't that ideal at really good frame rates(even with dual GPU, some newer games still run like shit when it really taxes your hardware, my 2 unlocked 6950s is the only way to get 60+FPS at 1080p at highest settings with some newer games at a decent price, mind you they are actual PC games taxing my setup hard, not ports), more never hurts.
