Profile of brinstar117

Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.6GHz
16GB G.SKILL V DDR4 3200MHz CL16-18-18-38-56
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit





I've played around with quite a few different hardware configurations with COH2. The best thing I've done was upgrade to the i7 from an i5-6600K @ 4.6GHz. While the benchmarks were mostly the same, the maximum FPS went up by about 15-20 FPS. The biggest difference was that with the i7 I almost never experience stuttering during gameplay while I would encounter stuttering with the i5. I'm not sure what causes the difference. It may be attributed to the extra available threads from hyperthreading or possibly the extra 2MB of L3 cache on the i7.

I would take an older generation i7 over a modern i5 despite the lower FPS since the average was more stable and minimized stuttering. Perceptually it feels smoother. Faster CAS latency RAM increases minimum FPS by a few FPS. I also had a Radeon 390 for a short time but my minimum FPS dropped by around 8-10 FPS for COH2. From what I understand Radeon drivers have a higher CPU overhead which might explain it.

I have also have compared different generations of Intel CPUs. My benchmarks for these are from December 2015 so they may have different drivers and are on an older version of COH2.

i5 6600K @ 4.6GHz, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz (OC), GTX 970



i7 4790K @ 4.8GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL8, GTX 970



i7 2600K @ 4.6GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9, GTX 970



i5 2500K @ 4.7GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9, GTX 970



i5 2500K @ 4.7GHz, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL8, GTX 970 (faster memory timings than one above)