A better link here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-6.html
AMD - APU A10-5800K could be enough ?
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Nope it was a little bit slower, some 30% according to these (really cool) benchmarks -
http://www.overclock.net/t/1371301/...n-oveclocked-trinity-defeat-a-geforce-8800-gt
The technology is nice though, and I sold a lot of these chips a couple of years ago. Great for kids and very cheap gaming systems, even 1080p on a mix of low/medium.
What a lot of people don't realise is the visual difference between high and low settings in a game is actually not that much in many games, however the hardware required for high/max is vastly more expensive.
Correct, in fact quad-cores are the sweet spot by far as very few games can make use of more than 3 or 4 cores. Is your X3 a 720BE by any chance? It was a nice chip at the time and I was going to buy one for myself a while ago but ended up with an X4 940 instead.
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Well I'm always of the opinion to get the best you can afford.
Speaking from a high end computer that's about 3 weeks old, I can say my computer barely turns on while playing this game. I'm locked at 60fps and it never moves no mater were or what I do. My CPU runs around 10% at most and graphics usually around 25% with my fan speed around 30%. Settings are on Ultra.
I would be curious as to what any updates or expansions in the future that Elite offers might do. I would imagine if they implement planets or walking around your ship, then a better graphics card will be needed. But who knows how long that will be.
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Speaking from a high end computer that's about 3 weeks old, I can say my computer barely turns on while playing this game. I'm locked at 60fps and it never moves no mater were or what I do. My CPU runs around 10% at most and graphics usually around 25% with my fan speed around 30%. Settings are on Ultra.
I would be curious as to what any updates or expansions in the future that Elite offers might do. I would imagine if they implement planets or walking around your ship, then a better graphics card will be needed. But who knows how long that will be.
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Hmmm...
This a a rather old thread, OP most likely had solved his problem one way or the other.
I am running ED on that AMD A10-5800K APU in 1080p with 8G DDR3 1866 RAM in med settings just fine. Though - Occulus Rift or comparables are quite temptating (so newer and presumably louder hardware will be needed).
This a a rather old thread, OP most likely had solved his problem one way or the other.
I am running ED on that AMD A10-5800K APU in 1080p with 8G DDR3 1866 RAM in med settings just fine. Though - Occulus Rift or comparables are quite temptating (so newer and presumably louder hardware will be needed).
Very nice comparison chart. I normally use hwbot.org to compare, but failed to check Unigene Heaven results, which DO show the 8800GT being plenty quicker. Doh!
Yep that's the one. It's an ok overclocker, can get a tidy 3.3GHz out of it when I need the extra punch. Unfortunately the disabled 4th core in it isn't stable at anything higher than 2.2GHz, bad times!