ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:As expected, the 6 core i7 Extreme 980X kicks donkey in this benchmark:

Well, encoding is one of the most CPU dependent things out there, and scales almost directly with total CPU power.

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That's about 3 times my performance (counting 2nd pass ofcourse).

But almost noone cares about their encoding speed (who encodes stuff a lot here?  Me and... me?), and almost everyone care about their gaming instead.  Too bad for gaming it'll be more like a 2% difference in FPS (which you can't even notice) than 200%.

That being said, if you're not an encoderfag like me, why even buy powerful CPUs?  Get yourself a core i5 or PII and be happy.  The GPU is a 10x better place to dump your extra funds if you want to play games better.

(This post was last modified: 22/03/2010 09:14 PM by Assassinator.)