New PC. Advice for Smiss and I.

[Duke]

12 months, try 2 months...

[pixelboy]

Why did you go for i5 over i7? Cost?

[Duke]

Why did you go for i5 over i7? Cost?

I plan to do the same...
For me the only real difference is the i7 has hyper-threading which for most of the stuff I do (sim-racing) doesn't significantly increase in-game performance as many sims don't utilise hyper-threading very well, if at all.
So why spend the extra $100+ for no real gain, better to use that money on a better GFX card or other hardware.

[renesis37]

Why did you go for i5 over i7? Cost?

I plan to do the same...
For me the only real difference is the i7 has hyper-threading which for most of the stuff I do (sim-racing) doesn't significantly increase in-game performance as many sims don't utilise hyper-threading very well, if at all.
So why spend the extra $100+ for no real gain, better to use that money on a better GFX card or other hardware.

Also at the base freq of 3.5GHz for the i5 and 4.0GHz for the i7 there is a decent difference between them.. howerver you can run the i5 at 4.0GHz at stock volts which makes it almost the same for gaming,usually within an FPS (the bigger cache of i7 helps just slightly)..

[TIMMY30]

Slightly off topic sorry guys but not worthy of a new thread. Will a nvidia 750ti be alright with Assetto Corsa?

Cheers!

[renesis37]

Slightly off topic sorry guys but not worthy of a new thread. Will a nvidia 750ti be alright with Assetto Corsa?

Cheers!

In low graphics settings with a 60hz monitor it will just do the job, depending on resolution somewhere around 70-100fps on most tracks. I ran a GTX660 for a short time while my card was getting fixed which is very near a GTX750Ti and thats what I was getting. AC still looks pretty good in low FYI

[pixelboy]

I run a gtx 550 and it looks great .. I get 100 fps

[TIMMY30]

You have an i7 cpu dont you pix? Would that make much difference if i was to only have an i5?

[renesis37]

I run a gtx 550 and it looks great .. I get 100 fps

what resolution you running pix?

which i5 do you have timmy? any i5 sandybridge and above (2x00) series wont limit you with a GTX750Ti.

[SE1Z]

Someone needs to make a replay in AC we all use with fraps as a benchmark.

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[TIMMY30]

which i5 do you have timmy? any i5 sandybridge and above (2x00) series wont limit you with a GTX750Ti.

I dont have one yet but looking at the i5 4590

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[pixelboy]

I'm running HD.. 1920x1080

[norbs]

A quick video showing frame rates with 20 cars and PP on at 1920x1080


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Turn on HD to see FPS.

[TIMMY30]

Is that with the gtx970?? Looks awesome

[norbs]

Is that with the gtx970?? Looks awesome

Yep. The new system the guys in here (Renesis) suggested.

[kwijibo]

I usually seat the CPU & fan, and ram onto the Mobo while it's sitting in the box before putting it into the case.

I made the mistake of plugging in my old HDD along with my new SSD. Even though my windows installed to the SSD fine, it's still using the old boot file sitting on the old HDD and won't let me format that drive. If I didn't plug it in, and installed everything on the SSD alone, it would have been fine. I'll get around to fixing that one day.

Haha, just reading through this thread now and noticed this. I did the exact same thing 4 years ago and thought I'd fix it one day. I think it's time to buy a new PC instead.