How fast can a 7 year CPU go?

W3690 OC'ed Classic Apple Mac Pro 4,1 ---> 5,1.. Remember this CPU is from 2011

 

it can go above 80 km/h if u put it in ur car and drive as fast as u can

 

Looks like that thing will never be able to feed fast GPU, single core is quite slow and even with multiple cores performance is not so great.

Of course it is also quite old, but then again 4 years ago they had better performing i7.

For what it is, that overclock is doing wonders though!

i7-6700 non k is lame compared to 4 years old Devil's Canyon and with 10 cars your overclocked Xenon can actually beat my lame CPU:


I guess you can put many of those on same board to get improvement to scores over 10 vehicles?

Still I somehow think there is quite little practical value in BeamNG with that Xenon because it is so hard to keep GPU fed in this game (requires fastest possible single core speed).

 

Hey I have a Piledriver cpu from 2012......... I may do the BANANA test later....

 

Meanwhile i am stuck with a i7 2600.
its not bad performing Per-se, and ti be honest, it doesnt show its age either, but its not as fast performing as some of the lastest and greatest.

 

That is kinda good and bad of this era where new generations of CPU's are not showing huge amount of progress.

Of course 8th generation has about twice the computing power of 6th generation when we look multicore, but single core there is improvement of 15-20% only, but maybe it is partly lack of evolution in software too.

Even 2600 would probably do much better if software would spread the load evenly, sadly quite bit of software is running on one core mostly.

 

What kind of monitor you have? Resolution is something I have not seen before.

I'm obsessed of having 60fps at lowest fps, it is not a cheap obsession to have and not even only one

If I look all the games I have, there is only two really which can dip below 60fps even at short times, BeamNG and Arma I, latter is just poorly optimized and from era when threading was not so big thing as it is today, first one is still WIP

Most of the games are not using even 25% of what my computer can do.

 

I remember Pivot being big thing when old fashioned size was disappearing, after that it has been annoyingly wrong size format for text documents

You should get some of those old Apple computers to match retro screens, as Josh found out they still are perfectly good for even gaming use

Honestly, I was fine with 4:3 screen many years ago, but it was failing fast and had to get new monitor, only widescreens available, so I did spend quite bit of time to find one that had as much of vertical space and screen size as old 4:3, that meant from 19" had to go to 27" which was big back then, now should have 50", degrading eyesight be cursed...

All these people creating awesome with much older hardware I have, I really need to be ashamed as I have not been able to create much awesome stuff with this setup, but maybe in a future, before eyes fail me completely, I hope!