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Originally Posted by Mauzen Great, im being dragged even more into that discussion now Thats because its a synthetic benchmark, getting the theorethical maximum out of a pure CPU test in a certain test scenario (passmark CPU tests are certain mathematic operations, compression, encryption and some other stuff). The 8320 profits from those tests as it got 8 cores and so can perform more parallel tasks. But barely any game uses more than 3 or 4 cores though, and the single cores of the intel core-i CPUs are MUCH stronger than the AMD fx. Also, depending on the test, AMDs due to their architecture are faster with integer operations, but slower with floating points. Encryption and compression pretty much are pure integer tasks so the fx-8320 wins there, but floating point operations are much more relevant for games. So yep, there are certain scenarios in which the 8320 is faster than the 3570, but those scenarios clearly arent games. Why argue with a synthetic score when the actual game benchmarks put the fx-8320 miles behind the i5-3570? This is about a gaming pc! I think its reason enough to say its not a good CPU for a gaming pc today, if it cant handle a 4-year-old game like Starcraft 2 properly.

No CPU can handle Arma II OA (DayZ Mod) properly as well. Well, according to you, no CPU is good cpu since it cannot handle a game ( Arma II OA online ). And your 4 year old argument is invalid since June 29, 2010 ( Release date of Arma II OA ) is 4 years as well. As well, why do you take a benchmark from a game whose developers are unable to multithread physics calculations? If so, every CPU benchmark should run on ARMA II OA multiplayer. Even i7-3770 cannot handle it properly. As well, tell me, what's the use of swapping sockets every second year or so? I mean seriously, upgrading without replacing motherboard? Less likely thing for Intel.

And lets talk truth here. Starcraft 2 is one of those games he is least likely to play, and is not building rig specifically for the game.

And adding to the fact, that game seems to run bad on high end intel as well
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/8197581213