News First Intel Core 2 and Nvidia RTX 50 gaming experiments disappoint

[Admin]

The system played nicely, but the ‘majority of games’ with RT fell flat.

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[BFG-9000]

Well whaddya know, the oft forgotten problematic nForce 790i Ultra SLI may be finicky with memory, not overclock very well and has severe SATA data corruption issues, but can actually POST using a modern nVidia GPU with hybrid vBIOS!

It's too bad the POPCNT requirement also applies to 24H2 and later Windows 11, so no still-supported Windows will work on such a system after November, but perhaps such a configuration can be made to work in Linux after that.

 

[Energy96]

While a fun and interesting experiment, it’s not really that useful and the results are not really surprising.
Anyone affording a high end 50 or 40 series gpu can afford a good current gen cpu anyway.
Fun read though.

 

[HardwiredWireless]

First they complain that the ultra 285 is too slow so they try using a core 2 duo. What a fool. You have to laugh at such ignorance.

 

[DavidLejdar]

While a fun and interesting experiment, it’s not really that useful and the results are not really surprising.
Anyone affording a high end 50 or 40 series gpu can afford a good current gen cpu anyway.
Fun read though.

Depends. On a budget, it is a valid question, whether it is time to upgrade the CPU and MB, or whether one can go for higher GPU tier instead - like for a 5070 instead of a 5060 Ti, etc.

In this case, RT not working sounds like a knock-out for newer games. So, upgrade of CPU needed. But when someone still is with a later model, what's the FPS difference between using a GPU e.g. with a 4570 and with a modern CPU ? Or in way more cases DDR4-era CPUs - they may still be good enough to run e.g. a 5070 Ti with. But how good actually? Like, if such rigs happen to be CPU bound, how big is the impact, as in just a few frames, or only half of it?

Personally, I'd like more data about that, to have a clearer picture about which CPU can still serve as a good base for a gaming rig, with a modern GPU. Not that I would start a business with it straight away, as in getting GPU-less second-hand rigs, putting a modern GPU in it, and selling it as half-new entire gaming rig for not much more than the retail price of the GPU itself. But seems like relevant questions in general, which CPU performance is not good enough anymore when planning to upgrade the GPU.

 

[usertests]

First they complain that the ultra 285 is too slow so they try using a core 2 duo. What a fool. You have to laugh at such ignorance.

No Fun Allowed

 

[8086]

Depends. On a budget, it is a valid question, whether it is time to upgrade the CPU and MB, or whether one can go for higher GPU tier instead - like for a 5070 instead of a 5060 Ti, etc.

In this case, RT not working sounds like a knock-out for newer games. So, upgrade of CPU needed. But when someone still is with a later model, what's the FPS difference between using a GPU e.g. with a 4570 and with a modern CPU ? Or in way more cases DDR4-era CPUs - they may still be good enough to run e.g. a 5070 Ti with. But how good actually? Like, if such rigs happen to be CPU bound, how big is the impact, as in just a few frames, or only half of it?

Personally, I'd like more data about that, to have a clearer picture about which CPU can still serve as a good base for a gaming rig, with a modern GPU. Not that I would start a business with it straight away, as in getting GPU-less second-hand rigs, putting a modern GPU in it, and selling it as half-new entire gaming rig for not much more than the retail price of the GPU itself. But seems like relevant questions in general, which CPU performance is not good enough anymore when planning to upgrade the GPU.

It's a good technical lesson to those less informed about PCs and how the CPU choice can bottleneck and render the most expensive GPUs almost useless.

 

[JohnyFin]

This is again stupid test from TikTock environment, click byte crap. Senseless.

 

[hush now]

This is again stupid test from TikTock environment, click byte crap. Senseless.

ok sir, let's get you to bed. its funny saying something like this when it was a Gen X YouTuber who did the experiment and techies have been doing these types of tests mixing different generational hardware since even before the internet happened. So absolutely not a "TikTock environment" thing.

 

[HardwiredWireless]

No Fun Allowed

Some people seem to think playing games is serious business and refuse to enjoy the things life offers.

 

[Hotzenplotz46]

Personally, I'd like more data about that, to have a clearer picture about which CPU can still serve as a good base for a gaming rig, with a modern GPU.

What i dont understand is: From the Article it seems only RTX50 series has Problems with RT and Core2Quad cpus. Otherwise it wouldnt be a suprise that core2quad wont run rt.

Which means Radeon 7000 series and rtx3000 will run rt games with core2quad afaik.

So its still a nvidia driver issue or planned obscolescence from nvidia.

 

[Dementoss]

Despite what some posters are saying, there's nothing wrong with trying things out just for fun but, on the other hand, nobody who can only afford to run a very old PC, is going to be buying a bang up to date new GPU to run on it.