Game Unplayable

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by RE77ACTION

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The average frame rate dropped from 32 to 29 which is a decrease of about 9.5% while I decreased the CPU speed with about 13,5%. ...

I was a bit surprised to see the difference mine produced at a higher speed, the feeling in the game is not nearly as apparent as the result would suggest. Although a 7.3% increase in average frame rate is not huge, especially for a ~17% increase in cpu speed, it could be beneficial if frame rates were marginal to start with. Another benefit of the cpu’s that you are considering is the fact that they have unlocked multipliers, which is handy when overclocking. I don’t really use this feature since it negates using Cool’n’Quiet – I tend to leave it standard (my RAM won’t run much faster than 533MHz, which it does by default on my mobo, and is faster this way than running at 400MHz and then increasing the ‘FSB’).

An upgrade I intend doing shortly is replacing my gfx card with a 6950 or 6970, which is due, but am going to wait for Bulldozer before deciding on a new cpu/mobo/RAM (currently leaning towards SandyBridge, although I'm an AMD fan). I just hope that some of issues that the game has with these cards are resolved by then, as my current one works flawlessly.

Good luck with your decision