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Well, it could be because Guild Wars 2 is not included in the list of "supported games" they have. I just manually added it and activated the hybrid mode for it. It runs fine, with no peculiar artifacts.

I was not able to run Dirt Showdown nor Crysis 2, for example. While Dirt Showdown was not in the list, Crysis 2 was, but still could not start the game. Both crashed right away 😛

interesting results..
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Yeah. Will be getting more this afternoon 😛

Cheers!
 

i can say my i3-2120 (that is now back in a box) performs faster than the q6600 i had years ago (before i turn it into a paper weight). though when encoding a video to burn to a dvd the q6600 kept chugging along whereas the i3 slowed down a bit.
 


Well, if the state of the technology doesn't change much in these coming 2 years, yeah. Since there will be new consoles in a couple of years (maybe next), you could see a sudden jump in requirements for smooth gameplay.

The 7850 should last these 2 years fine though.

And on another note. Anyone knows what these new Extreme parts will have? Less L3 cache and 2 less cores like SB-E?

Cheers!
 

not really.

i am seeing a few people sell their Z68 motherboards because they upgraded to a Z77 not knowing that an ivy cpu is compatible. now why someone would upgrade a sandy to an ivy is beyond me (except and i5 to an i7 for work).

so you may in a time find a used Z68 at less than half the cost on craig's list. . . just saying.
 

don't let me talk you into something you are not sure of. the 3470 will be fine for awhile; my line of thought was it would be cheaper to upgrade the motherboard and heatsink for $100-$120 in two years than upgrade the CPU for $180-$200.

though until then, at best, you can get ~5% increase in gaming @ stock speeds.
Gaming Performance

now this not thinking about haswell and what performance that will bring to the table after next year.
 
look everyone i need some help here i been trying to overclock my acer x1301 which has a AMD ANTHLONIIx2 processor and a WMCP78M mole number and bios gives no options to over clock(i have a 2.7 GHz processor) please if some one could post pics or somthing i coundt find the right thread for this so a pely soon would be nice ps. iv tryed countles programs and dont have to have my ppl
 
^^ @123man0: wrong thread to ask. :)
open a new forum thread in the overclocking section (for example: click on the 'ask the community' button).
afaik, it's not possible to overclock pre-built pc. oems block options for overclocking. that is why you don't see any oc options in the bios. there may be 3rd party options... that's what overclocking section is for.
good luck. :)
 
hrm, the 2500 is on that list for Q2 eol. I'm right now trying to decide on if I should upgrade my 17-930(o.c. -3.7ghz) to a 2500k or 3570k for WoW gaming, and if so, what damn MB to get.
 
Hey! Why is'nt there an intel cpu with 3 cores that provides performance somewhere between the i3 and i5? have no idea if that's possible..just curious.. 😀
 

They'd rather see those people fork out the extra money for a quad core. Intel seems particularly wary of cannibalizing the sales of its higher-end CPUs; that's also why there are no "K" processors below the Core i5-3570k.
 

So its actually possible and they are deliberately withholding a cpu that could actually provide more value in terms of performance/price considering that not too many applications utilize all the cores on a quad core..that's too bad 🙁

edit: do you think that a tri core cpu would be ideal for gamers right now?
 
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