Can I get feedback from i5 and i7 users?

Mulbin

Mulbin
About to put together a new rig so very keen to hear peoples experiences using DK2 with i5s vs DK2 with an i7

Reading a lot of conflicting info, some people saying Elite uses i7's hyperthreading, some saying an i5 actually runs with less judder than an i7

I also see a lot of people saying i7s aren't worth it as they only give a couple of extra frames at best... they obviously don't understand how much difference 2fps makes in VR ;)

Currently looking at either an i5 4690k or an i7 4790k, not fussed about the extra £90 for the i7, just want to make sure I get the best one for Elite!
 

Deleted member 110140

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You're thinking right, frame consistency is important in VR and you don't want to be CPU bound. You'll be GPU bound enough as it is, even with best of cards out there.

I'm a big fan of Broadwells (i5-5675c and i7-5775c). I have the latter. Due to their massive L4 cache they perform amazingly with lower clocks and TDP, usually beating Skylakes and i7-4790K in framerate smoothness. Check some benchmarks from Anandtech and Techreport. My suggestion would be i5 for the budget, i7 for all the way, though I doubt HT brings much benefit. As long as you have at least 4 cores, single thread performance is still king.

If you have Windows 7, make sure to disable Core parking.
 

Jonathan E

Jonathan E
I have an i7 4790K @ 4.0GHz, GTX980ti and getting no judder in the DK2 on runtime 0500, most settings on ultra. I think the only things I have turned down/off are blur, bloom, shadows down a notch.
 

vernonator

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I am running an i7-4770 (4 core 3.4ghz) with 16gb ram and an GeForce GTX 970 w/4gb - I keep taskman up so I can kill ED when it locks (too damn often but that's another thread). I never see more than 20% cpu usage ( I run all video settings at max) no judder, no lag...it handles the game easily, all while running things in the background (online backup, etc)
 

THE BLOB

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Windows 10 runtime 0.5 i5 4690k 4.5ghz and gtx970 with no oc yet. Everything set on ultra I use the nvidia experience to optimise ed then just turn off AA in game runs smooth 75 fps plus I drop the graphics v cpu slider down to 1/3 from bottom. The weird thing is it can run for hours no problem even with loads of activity in and around the station.

Then it can be quiet and I start getting blurring and fps drop to high 50 's I get the problem most when below ground which I thought was weird. The only other time fps drop is the moment the timer gets to 0 and I jump for a split second

so as my i5 goes what a huge difference from my original cpu which was an amd A8 6500 which used to max out playing ED the i5 takes it in its stride no more than 60% usage at busy times in station

So I love my i5 Best Buy yet apart from the dk2 which is amazing good look with your choice on cpu

Rob
 

Mr_sukebe

Mr_sukebe
If you look in task manager you'll see that ED does a good job of spreading it's CPU load across cores. My ancient i5@3.3Ghz is only hitting around 50% usage, so clearly in my own system, the AMD280x is the bottleneck.
My assumption is that you'd need something like a 980Ti to remove the majority of the GPU bottleneck, even on my lowly system. So right now, an i5 is probably more than sufficient for ED.
 

Raptoyd

Raptoyd
I7-4790K here easily OC's to 4.8 GHZ on my Asus Pro 97 board so more than enough CPU. This game in VR is pretty taxing on just about any GPU but it certainly has gotten a lot better over the past year
 
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