Hello everyone. I currently have the i5 2400 Sandy Bridge @ stock speed&stock cooling (see sig for specs). A friend of mine is willing to sell me his i7 Ivy Bridge to me for less than $100. I'm not sure which speed it is, waiting on him to reply. This sounds like a really good deal so I'm probably going to buy this regardless. But out of curiosity, will this bring noticeable improvement to ps2?
What motherboard and video card do you have? IB is able to use pci-e 3.0. It can, in some games, lead to a bit higher fps if your board and your card also support it. What's going to make the most difference in this game is clock speed.
P-67's don't do pci-e 3.0. You're not really missing out on anything though, so don't take it that way. You'll still have better performance going up on the cpu... and really, the diff between pci-e 2.0 and 3.0 is mostly negligible; not always, but mostly.
99% of the gain will be had through the difference in clock speed. An i5-2400 is a 3.1/3.4 while a 3770 is a 3.4/3.9 - I would guess a ~5fps gain. Noticeable? Yes. Worth it? Not sure.
