4670k future-proofness

[MeltingPoint]

At stock speed, how long do you think the i5 4670K won't be a bottleneck in gaming?

[Firearm2112]

For atleast 3 or 4 years

[X1XNobleX1X]

At stock speed, how long do you think the i5 4670K won't be a bottleneck in gaming?

At least 3-4  years. 

[MeltingPoint]

Great!

[i_build_nanosuits]

At stock speed, how long do you think the i5 4670K won't be a bottleneck in gaming?

it is already a bottleneck in many games...

[VulsaviiK]

it is already a bottleneck in many games...

 

Above that you're buying hex-cores, and for the money you spend investing in that platform right now, you could just buy better GPUs, which will give you more of a boost in most games

[i_build_nanosuits]

Above that you're buying hex-cores, and for the money you spend investing in that platform right now, you could just buy better GPUs, which will give you more of a boost in most games

trowing more cores at the problem won't help in regards to gaming.

[MeltingPoint]

it is already a bottleneck in many games...

Like what? Got graphs?

[i_build_nanosuits]

Like what? Got graphs?

There are 3 categories in which a game can be CPU bound even with the fastest CPU available on the market:

1- CPU limited games like most mmo's and RTS where you get many caracters interacting at once on the screens.. games like Guild Wars 2 or Planetside 2 where massive raids occure.

2- Indie games or older game engines: built on old single threaded game engines they sometimes demand A LOT of precessing to be done on only 1 or 2 CPU cores, that can pause a problem at times even with a modern quad core CPU. (See ARMA 3, DayZ)

3- Open world games, demanding modern games: Those can get pretty extensive on the CPU very quickly, just look at Watchdogs for example where there's a lot of things in the world moving and interacting and a lot of actions in the street...when you drive around there's a lot happening and that taxes even the core i7 which do significantly better in this game, many online modern games that hit or will hit market very soon will fall in that caterogry as well. (Dead Rising 3, Star citizen, Grand Theft Auto V)

Hope this helps you understand the cases where even a modern quad-core CPU with what we consider a very good IPC for current generation chips often can't be enough to achieve 60FPS on highest detail level in games.

Now, the real answer you wanted to ask was: How long will this CPU still be relevant for gaming?

To that the real answer depends on a lot of things...will directx12 release with a low-level graphics hardware access to allow for more CPU overhead...that could help immensely..if not, as i said before this CPU can get taxed in many ways already by the games and honeslty IMHO the GPU market is now way ahead of the CPU that intel has to offer so that soon should change entirely the way the games are developped, or intel should with skylake bring a lot more performance on the table this time around cause honestly since 2nd generation sandy bridge processors (2009) not much as changed.

[jezza39]

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Good read, in your opinion does HT help with the bottlenecks you mentioned? Obviously not for #2, I don't want to grab an i5 if point 3 can be solved with an i7

[i_build_nanosuits]

Good read, in your opinion does HT help with the bottlenecks you mentioned? Obviously not for #2, I don't want to grab an i5 if point 3 can be solved with an i7

Hyper-threading CAN help with number 3, but will not help situation 1 or 2.

It's not also a guarantee..in Watchdogs it does, in the long run i think there's a lot of chance that the i5 or i7 will be relevant for gaming about the same time...maybe an overclocked i7 will be a lilttle better in the future but as i said it's no guarantee.

[jezza39]

Hyper-threading CAN help with number 3, but will not help situation 1 or 2.

It's not also a guarantee..in Watchdogs it does.

 

Cheers, might bump up to an i7 then thanks. I want a 5 year LAN/Gaming only rig

[i_build_nanosuits]

Cheers, might bump up to an i7 then thanks. I want a 5 year LAN/Gaming only rig

i'd say if you have to cut corners elsewhere on your rig go for the i5, if budget is not an issue and you get a top dog gpu anyway, go i7.

[jezza39]

i'd say if you have to cut corners elsewhere on your rig go for the i5, if budget is not an issue and you get a top dog gpu anyway, go i7.

 

Thanks mate :thumbsup: