Path of exile - 3770k?

[y3llowduk]

Looking forward to the new league next week but I'm getting a lot of really bad stutter in high density areas, literally enough to die from. Noticed it's when my 3570k 4.2Ghz hits 100% usage... ouch...

 

Does anyone know if POE scales well with more threads? Was thinking of plopping in a 3770k if i can get one cheap.

 

Tia

[boggy77]

have you tried overclocking your current cpu?

[y3llowduk]

2 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

have you tried overclocking your current cpu?

Yeah its at 4.2, its a bit of a cactus CPU though, cant get it much higher (1.3v)

[boggy77]

do you have ram running in dual channel?

[y3llowduk]

14 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

do you have ram running in dual channel?

Yeah. Just noticed they've added Vulcan support which does seem to help a little. Might see what I can OC to on 1.4v but just concerned about CPU longevity...

[boggy77]

19 minutes ago, y3llowduk said:

Yeah. Just noticed they've added Vulcan support which does seem to help a little. Might see what I can OC to on 1.4v but just concerned about CPU longevity...

I mean, if you're thinking of replacing it anyway, you might as well push it to its last drop.

[Dr0y]

I've had that issue appear out of nowhere ... found out that it was related to some internet buffer setting in poe ... don't remember the name exactly ... it was not hardware related

[steelo]

5 hours ago, y3llowduk said:

Looking forward to the new league next week but I'm getting a lot of really bad stutter in high density areas, literally enough to die from. Noticed it's when my 3570k 4.2Ghz hits 100% usage... ouch...

 

Does anyone know if POE scales well with more threads? Was thinking of plopping in a 3770k if i can get one cheap.

 

Tia

I've tried that game with a 4 core Ryzen 3 2200g and it did pretty much max it out. With a 2400g (4c/4t) it sat around 60%-70% and with a 1600af, I'm around the same.

[y3llowduk]

19 hours ago, Dr0y said:

I've had that issue appear out of nowhere ... found out that it was related to some internet buffer setting in poe ... don't remember the name exactly ... it was not hardware related

I know the one you mean, that did improve it a bit. Also switched to vulcan helped a tad.

[y3llowduk]

18 hours ago, steelo said:

I've tried that game with a 4 core Ryzen 3 2200g and it did pretty much max it out. With a 2400g (4c/4t) it sat around 60%-70% and with a 1600af, I'm around the same.

Ah looks like those extra threads are needed then. I got it up to 4.4 last night on 1.4v and its a little better still.... almost to a point where it's playable now... might be able to get away without the upgrade.