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Currently AMD 1100t, where do i go from here?

Soundood

Soundood

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hi guys,

been an AMD lover for all time, still do luv'em,

but things are not too good at the moment, faildozer for one, now i hear we are 'skipping piledriver'

so my question is where do i go from here?

my rig at the moment is,

Asus M5A99X EVO,
8 gig, Crucial tracers
1100t @ 4 gig
2 x GTX470's SLI @750 core

i was set up to take an AM3+ if the delivered, but found my 1100t was/is doing the job

at the moment i play BF3, i can run it at 5760 x 1200 on medium settings, fairly smooth.

but i am itching for an upgrade that would boost my game a little, i want to leave the GTX's for a little while, and was thinking CPU/mobo upgrade, on the intel side.

what would you recommend? and what if any performance boost would i see in gaming in your experiance?

thanks
 
3570k+ Z77 D3H mobo is a good combo for an upgrade. I made the switch from phenom a few months ago since AMD performance chips are long gone and nowhere on the horizon.
 
HankScorpio said:
3570k+ Z77 D3H mobo is a good combo for an upgrade. I made the switch from phenom a few months ago since AMD performance chips are long gone and nowhere on the horizon.
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+1 and it also should bottleneck your SLI setup less as well, should have even smoother gameplay.
 
Your SLI will still be top draw performance for a while yet. If the power consumption/noise levels are not getting on your nerves I'd switch to intel as a next upgrade path, your gaming performance will certainly increase.
 
from what i can gather, piledriver is not all that, barely a 10% increase if any, i feer it will just be a lower TDP.

but i might hang on just in case
 
I would just go for an Intel i5 3570k and get guaranteed performance rather than waiting out on AMD, when that may only be a small improvement over an already poorly performing CPU in terms of gaming.
 
soundood said:
hi guys,

been an AMD lover for all time, still do luv'em,

but things are not too good at the moment, faildozer for one, now i hear we are 'skipping piledriver'

so my question is where do i go from here?

my rig at the moment is,

Asus M5A99X EVO,
8 gig, Crucial tracers
1100t @ 4 gig
2 x GTX470's SLI @750 core

i was set up to take an AM3+ if the delivered, but found my 1100t was/is doing the job

at the moment i play BF3, i can run it at 5760 x 1200 on medium settings, fairly smooth.

but i am itching for an upgrade that would boost my game a little, i want to leave the GTX's for a little while, and was thinking CPU/mobo upgrade, on the intel side.

what would you recommend? and what if any performance boost would i see in gaming in your experiance?

thanks
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wait for a year till consoles come out with new spec in them along with new gaming engines that will actually push stuff again.

amd actually does better than intel in bf3 which is funny. cpu wise.

also with next year unreal 4 engine comes out and that hammers stuff hard.

your rig is still very fast and rest is just willy waving. save the money till next year when needed ;)
 
I don't think you have enough vram to warrant upgrading the cpu you can only fit so much into 1200mb it's not like you can use MSAA beyond 2x in newer games with that vram and I doubt you'd see much improvement in any processor until you have more vram to fill up with AA and textures that require it.
 
Like the others have said no point upgrading right now. I don't intend to upgrade anywhere either, I'm more than content with my 1090t and radeon 6870 :)
 
dacads said:
Like the others have said no point upgrading right now. I don't intend to upgrade anywhere either, I'm more than content with my 1090t and radeon 6870 :)
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Sadly Fraps does not do well with the 1090t recording at 1920x1200, but the strangest thing is my cpu usage is 30 - 35%. Or is this down to both the 5870's having 1GB? I just find it strange the cpu isn't getting pushed for recording.

I'm wanting to go Ivybridge in a few months because from what I've read here, the FPS was flawless with HT and recording with Fraps. That and the fact I've not had an Intel since 1998.
 
what...

fraps i record for hrs lol at that res

on bf3 i record for hrs with 55 fps while recording

i only have a oc 955 you doing something wrong.

not see a game i have had problems with recording at that res.

if you playing bf3 with 1 gig mem thats your issue
 
Dg, you didn't read my post. I didn't say I had 1GB ram. I stated my 5870's has 1GB ram. The system ram installed has 8GB at 1600Mhz.

And exactly what am I doing wrong?

Fraps is not some technical app you need some degree on. You click Movies, you click 60fps, you choose full size or half size videos, you pick the hard drive you wish to record. You tap the key to start/stop recording.
 
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