Goodbye AMD FX, Hello Intel I7..... maybe!

So basically if i went with the OC board and my current hardware, PCI sound, PCIE wifi and PCIE_16 GPU they wont interfere with each other.

I can see the benefits there straight away! No bottle necking, well, not form the three cards... And air flow too.....

Just been looking at my manual for my current mobo and to see what is shared with what.
I can now see why my GPU can seem to under perform....

I can see a change happening........ goodbye AMD!
 
Put a GFX card in slot number 1

Put PCI card in one of the two PCI slots

Put PCI-E wifi into last slot (number 7) and they will all be happy.
 
Boom.......!!

Thats why I'm here. Bloody good advice and ive learnt loads, the down side is my bottle of wine is empty, so its time for bed!

Thanks stulid and Avenged7fold, you've both been a fountain of knowledge.

Gigabyte OC board it is!
 
Then we can also talk about more expensive boards like the Force/Sniper5 or Asus extreme thingy which are like £300+

These have PLX chips which double the 16 PCI_E lanes from the CPU to the slots and allow you to do 4-Way SLI etc as again you need a minimum of 8X to get SLI certification.

So the Force for example can do 8x/8x/8x/8x all PCI-E 3.0


16x Orange Slot (16x Electrical)
16x Black Slot (16x Electrical)
16x Orange Slot (8x Electrical)
1x Black Slot (1x Electrical)
16x Orange Slot (16x Electrical)
1x Black Slot (1x Electrical)
16x Orange Slot (8x Electrical)

So it can do 16X/16X 2-way SLI/Crossfire or 16X/8X/8X 3-way

Or you can use the black 16X slot on the OC Force board for a single GFX card and this bypasses the PLX chip completely, you would do this as the PLX chips add latency thus reducing performance a bit.
 
Well I hope thats helped and I havent blown your mind too much, im going to frag some newbs now.
 
I now know which board im gonna use but more importantly im starting to understand what everyone is talking about whem they on about bottlenecking.
So yeah, I did make me wibble for a bit but its all sinking in...

Next thing to consider is am I staying with win 7 pro or goining to 8.1!?
 
Not read all the posts, but just to throw a spanner in the works...

I have, in the last couple of weeks, knocked up a 6 core I7 ( 970 ) purely for the kicks.

I moved to AMD from my old i7 ( 860 ) and then I grabbed a 930 plus Mobo from the MM only to find that it the same as my old 860 in every respect ( just that its 1366 and my old i7 is 1156 ) but that why I then grabbed a 6 core I7 so have a laugh.

Its still slower than my AMD in absolutely everything I use it for.

Ok, so my zeon kills everything else I have, but thats cost me a few rand to knock up, while the AMD and this I7 have been well under a grand.

As for heavy gaming, I no longer do that due to a disability, but I still like to know that my kits can run with the big boys, and so sure enough, I have benched the AMD against the I7 and used identical cards whenever possible, and there is absolutely ZERO noticeable difference with the eye, but benches say otherwise of course.

Bottom line is that I wished that I never bothered to try 6 core I7 and expect it to beat the AMD.

That said... Its an old I7 and in an old Mobo, so...
 
Im doing one last full install of this system. A few weeks before I can do any swapping so I may as well make the best of it.

Im just so confused with it. Ive got a top end AMD system and it runs like a pig with three trotters. One of the reasons im going to Intel.
Ever since I upgraded from my old FX6350 and mobo ive had nothing but problems. :(
 
Sorry Kold- bit off topic

Were you able to cool the FX9590 with the H100i?

The reason I ask is that I am worried about the CPU throttling and performance being Kak

I have one and a H100i but havent set about getting a board yet- which of course will come from OCUK as normal

Thanks
 
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mnc fear said:
Sorry Kold- bit off topic

Were you able to cool the FX9590 with the H100i?

I have one but havent set about getting a board yet- which of course will come from OCUK as normal

Thanks
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Yeah, it works a treat to be honest. Keeps the FX9590 under 50 degrees when under full load @5GHz. Stress tested it with Prime95 and hottest it got to was 49 degrees.
Ive swapped the supplied fans with the Corsair SP 120 Performance static airflow PWM fans. They are quieter and because they are static high pressure they are great for radiators.
Ive also put them onto a fan controller and not on the Corsair link software, this is because its far easier to control the fans and turn them up when things start getting warm!
 
Lately I have found myself in a bit of a strange one

I had a FX8150 & FX8350- then I was gifted a FX9590

Then add to this I picked up a 3570K from my mate & have a 3770 coming from my mate again in a week when he upgrades

I have offloaded the FX8150 setup so far but need to setup another 2 machines- don't know which ones to choose

will end up with 2 Rigs for general use & one for Hyper-V home test server

Ther performance of the AMD have been great but in Warcraft or CPU bound games ( which I tend to play MMO's) they tend to lag behind a bit
 
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The FX9590 is a good chip, although it runs hot on stock cooler and its power hungry. If you are into overclocking then you can get the FX8350 to almost FX9590 speeds, if you cant be arsed like me then keep the 9590, just put it under a descent cooler, the H100i.
 
I have to admit, that when I ent back to AMD, I found the AMD was sluggish in many ways, but over time, I have tweaked and tuned the setup into a near perfect machine that simply does not show any form of hint of sluggishness in any way at all!

Right now, the 8350 in the sabretooth Mobo, is perhaps my personal favourite for everyday use, and I do anything and everything with it.

Its perhaps the snappiest of all my PCs... Then again, I am also running Multiple SSD RAID on it so yeah, it should be quick.
 
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