Zekkyou on 19 March 2013
| disolitude said: I honestly think if this is just for gaming, you're wasting your money. I can't find a single scenario where you would want an X79 rig for gaming to be honest. Single moitor setup at 1080p - you will hit 60 fps maximum with AMD FX/1155 CPUs easily Single monitor setup at 2560 - GPU becomes the bottleneck before CPU Multimonitor setup - GPU is bottleneck 3D gaming - GPU Only instance where x79 platform makes sense for gaming is if you are doing 3way SLI/Crossfire and have 3 monitors that are 120 hz and you want 3 X 120 frames per second. For rendering and other CPU intensive stuff its a different story...but for gaming you can save major coin by getting the AMD AM3+ platform or 1155.I'd recommend AMD to be honest due to dollar/performance ratio... Benchmarks show that newer games like Crysis 3 and Metro run as good if not better on AMD's 8 core processors and with consoles going that route, the optimizaton for AMD will only improve. |
I should probably have mentioned this is for my youtube channel, so it will be used for a lot of rendering and video storing (hense 2 2TB hardrives). I do want it to be pretty future proof (so in 3 years time still be able to run games at max. Though that's hard to judge with the next gen popping along). Would it still be worth moving down on the platform? I know little about computers past the basics of what each part in general does :/ But thanks for your time ^^
