Im going for exactly the same processor Nhill40 so any info on how it performs would be great...im running a phenom 2 955 oc to 3.5ghz at the moment,and it,s dealing with WOFF really well .
Don't hesitate, Adger - *finally* got up & running today (had to re-DL WOFF since I hadn't backed it up yet & had to re-create RAID volume when I switched mobo's) and it is a night & day improvement with the new CPU!
To be fair, 1.11 came out between the last time I ran the sim on my old AMD proc and today, so that may account for some of the improvement...but at the same time, my old AMD (FX-6100) was never
completely perfect on OFF either (very subtle stuttering under certain circumstances).
WOFF 1.11 absolutely hums along on the new i7! I reverted back to default nvidia settings (b/c I wanted a good baseline before venturing into tweak-ville) and am running all the defaults in the workshop (5-3-3-5-5, high terrain texture, cloud fog off, etc) and I had to TRY to get the FPS below 60 - AMAZING! (I had to land and sweep my head past the hangers/buildings/planes to get an FPS drop - and even then it was high-40's)
HUGE thank you to the devs!!! (and to Intel for making some smokin' CPUs!
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