@wr3ckloose_: I believe you are a little misinformed as to where the Xeon lies on the performance charts. I have done my research before the upgrade, and found that the Xeon I chose is identical in specs to the i7-3770, just without integrated graphics. I know it's a couple generations behind, but I'm sort of limited by CPU socket, and I don't currently feel ready to build a new machine from scratch yet.
All I'm asking here is for some CPU intensive games to stress test it. I do not mind playing at High details, as opposed to Ultra, the bottom line is, I want to see how much of a benefit I'm getting with the upgrade.
So far, I have tested DOOM, Dishonored 2, Watch Dogs 2, Resident Evil 7, The Witcher 3 and a few emulators (won't go into detail about those though, other than I was finally playing things at full speed.)
In Dishonored 2 with the high preset, I got 55 - 62 FPS in most areas, with occasional dips to the 40s with a lot of things on screen.
In Watch Dogs 2, with a mix of high and very high, I'm averaging around 50 - 55FPS, with dips to the 40's while traveling in fast cars. This performance can be improved if I just left everything at the high preset, and turned off the extra bells and whistles I enabled.
In Resident Evil 7, everything's a solid 60 or above with everything set to high, all the time.
DOOM, being the optimized beast that it is, gets me into the 90s in a lot of scenes on High details, and the lowest I've ever seen it go was still well above 60.
And finally, the Witcher 3 achieves 60 just fine too, on High settings, and doesn't have dips as frequently as Watch Dogs 2 or Dishonored 2.
Hopefully that gives you a little more information in what I'm looking for. ^^; I will say that so far, I've noticed the CPU upgrade has completely gotten rid of the intermittent freezes that occasionally happen, and my games that I have previously tried with my i3, I've seen a 20 - 25 FPS boost in all of them, all running with more stability too.
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