Current: Intel E2200 @2.2GHz (dual core)
Want: Intel <insert CPU here> @ <insert speed here>
Price: £50-£150
Specifics: Must be powerful enough for TF2 to run at 60fps minimum
Link me to buying places if you can.
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| Author: | Hawke [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Need a new CPU here! |
Current: Intel E2200 @2.2GHz (dual core) Want: Intel <insert CPU here> @ <insert speed here> Price: £50-£150 Specifics: Must be powerful enough for TF2 to run at 60fps minimum Link me to buying places if you can. Go
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| Author: | Harry [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
What graphics card do you have? Each of these 3 are the same, except for price and clock speed. £95 - Intel Core 2 Quad 2.33 GHz Processor For an extra £5, you can get (4*0.17) GHz. (which is 0.68 GHz). £100 - Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5 GHz Processor For an extra £20, you can get another (4*0.16) GHz. (which is 0.64 GHz). £120 - Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66 GHz Processor So for an extra £25, you're basically getting an extra 1.32GHz, and it's a quad core so I'm pretty sure that you will get 60+ fps, unless your GPU is bottlenecking your CPU, in which case you need a new GPU. |
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| Author: | azcn2503 [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Q6600 would do you well. |
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| Author: | Hawke [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
My GPU is a Radeon 4870. For TF2, GPU bottlenecking is not a problem as it's heavily CPU intensive and only lightly taxing to the GPU. Thanks for your responses though
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| Author: | Harry [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Q6600 My friend thinks that these aren't in production anymore, and they're quite pricey for what they do. Yeah, the 4870 will handle it 
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| Author: | azcn2503 [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
On EBay I bet they are going for £50 or something. Difficult for me to check right now. |
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| Author: | Harry [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Ebay, Q6600 - $58 It has like 1h20m remaining, but me/my friend wouldn't buy hardware from eBay. And apparently with the right sort of cooling, you could get this overclocked to something like 4.8GHz, the seller of this did it so this specific CPU would be able to do it, but an OC that big would probably be unstable. |
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| Author: | Si [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
A full 100% increase in cpu speed... fried cpu warning. |
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| Author: | Skillers [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Never buy previously overclocked hardware from eBay (well, small OCs are fine). As everyone has already said, just look at C2Qs in your price range, their should be plenty. Any will work fine. Alternatively, the CPU you have is an excellent OCer, you could try pushing it a bit. However, the hardware you have shouldn't be struggling with TF2 anyway 
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| Author: | Hawke [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Skillers wrote: Alternatively, the CPU you have is an excellent OCer, you could try pushing it a bit. However, the hardware you have shouldn't be struggling with TF2 anyway I can't be bothered to make a thread saying "Need OC instructions here!"  Also, I get 20-30fps when 2 or more people are fighting it out. Alone, I have 60+ fps. I've tried a lot of tweaking just to get it not to dip below 20fps (it used to do 10-15fps in a fight). I am aware it shouldn't struggle but it does. I'm not alone; reports of people with i7s and 5870s etc having really low fps are not uncommon. VALVe also have stated somewhere that they are aware an fps problem does exist in the game that causes people issues and that they're trying to fix it. |
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| Author: | Harry [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
I don't know if this is the same, but for the two months that I played wow, I saw a lot of threads complaining about super lower FPS with super high-end systems, could be the same? |
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| Author: | Hawke [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Harry wrote: I don't know if this is the same, but for the two months that I played wow, I saw a lot of threads complaining about super lower FPS with super high-end systems, could be the same? It can't be the same; WOW and TF2 run on different game engines. It is basically the same though; extreme-end systems reporting low fps on games that are older than recent games that they run perfectly fine. |
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| Author: | Harry [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
That's what I was going for
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| Author: | Madhayden [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
What's your ram/motherboard? Also operating system. Oh and the settings you'd play TF2 on(res, qualities, AA, AF) |
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| Author: | Hawke [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
PC RAM: 4GB DDR2 667mhz Motherboard: Asus P5Q SE OS: Windows 7 Home 64bit TF2 Res: 1680x1050 Quality: All high AA: Max AF: Max The settings of TF2 make virtually no difference to my FPS. I set everything to low and barely got 10fps improvement. |
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| Author: | Si [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Thats because you have AA set to max Lower it and see if your framerate changes
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| Author: | Skillers [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
If it's a CPU issue, which it probably is knowing Source, then graphics settings won't change anything. |
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| Author: | Hawke [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Si wrote: Thats because you have AA set to max Lower it and see if your framerate changesI did lower it. It made 0 change at all. And what Skillers said. My GPU is powerful enough to handle TF2 without bottlenecking. My CPU however probably isn't. |
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| Author: | Si [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Well what's your cpu usage when playing tf2? |
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| Author: | Hawke [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Si wrote: Well what's your cpu usage when playing tf2? 60-80% overall. |
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| Author: | Harry [ Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Can TF2 use both cores or just the 1? (For that matter, can anything use multiple cores?) |
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| Author: | Skillers [ Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Yes and yes. There's an option in TF2 called "multicore rendering" that enable it. For a program to use multiple cores it needs to be multithreaded. It's become quite common in the past few years. |
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| Author: | Si [ Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Whats the cpu usage of just tf2 |
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| Author: | Hawke [ Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
Si wrote: Whats the cpu usage of just tf2 55-75% |
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| Author: | azcn2503 [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Need a new CPU here! |
It's quite incredible that TF2 is using that much juice. I'll have to check what happens on my system when I get home. I forget what CPU I am using. |
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