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AMD FX 8320 analysis

almighty15 said:
There you go again with the crap....

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-057-AK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2174

£164 for 3 way SLI........

My Z68 also has 3 way SLI and cost £50...
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On Z87 I don't think you'll find 3-way+ SLI for that sort of price.

If you go for socket 2011, I don't know why anyone would go for the Xtreme4. Totally horrible board and wouldn't have it if it was given to me. Have at least 2 friends who cheaped out with this board and both sent it back due to instability and poor OC potential. Asus high end boards are miles superior.
 
alex_123_fra said:
On Z87 I don't think you'll find 3-way+ SLI for that sort of price.
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Which was exactly what I was referring to. But the troll, well he's gots to troll.

Comes along and shows a crap socket 2011 board and his second hand board.

Way to go. /slow claps. I think he rides the short bus.

Back in reality the cheapest tri sli board on 1150 costs around £250. But of course he realised that and was deliberately trolling.
 
alex_123_fra said:
On Z87 I don't think you'll find 3-way+ SLI for that sort of price.

If you go for socket 2011, I don't know why anyone would go for the Xtreme4. Totally horrible board and wouldn't have it if it was given to me. Have at least 2 friends who cheaped out with this board and both sent it back due to instability and poor OC potential. Asus high end boards are miles superior.
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It was stated Intel motherboard, didn't specify what chipset.

And no point in running 3 Way on anything other then 2011 platform as that's the only chipset that has

1. The PCIEX speed for it
2. The CPU grunt needed to drive 3 & 4 GPU's

3 & 4 way GPU is fail on AMD due to low CPU grunt and is also for the most part, pointless on the mainstream 1155 and 1150 socket boards.

We all remember this review : http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011...gpu_gameplay_performance_review/#.UojDwsTxpok

More recent review : http://www.anandtech.com/show/6934/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-single-multigpu-at-1440p
 
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This trolling is getting very tedious. The hardocp is based on Bulldozer, and the Anandtech review recommends an AMD APU for a single graphics card, but you ignore that part.
 
almighty15 said:
It was stated Intel motherboard, didn't specify what chipset.

And no point in running 3 Way on anything other then 2011 platform as that's the only chipset that has

1. The PCIEX speed for it
2. The CPU grunt needed to drive 3 & 4 GPU's

3 & 4 way GPU is fail on AMD due to low CPU grunt and is also for the most part, pointless on the mainstream 1155 and 1150 socket boards.

We all remember this review : http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011...gpu_gameplay_performance_review/#.UojDwsTxpok

More recent review : http://www.anandtech.com/show/6934/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-single-multigpu-at-1440p
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You're wrong yet again. With PLX chips, Z77 and Z78 boards can run tri and quad SLI perfectly acceptably. Is it as fast as a 2011 system? No, not far off it though and some people may choose to go down this route hence the market exists (albeit a small one).

What you posted refers to bulldozer CPUs. Piledriver CPUs are better. Tri SLI/fire is a perferctly viable solution on PD CPUs in multithreaded games utilising all cores and also with Mantle coming up so it is my no means fail.

Seriously, the only fail around here is what you post. Please just stop as you keep embarrassing yourself.Edited to add, socket 2011 support for multi GPUs is nothing to do with PCI-E speed/version. Only Ivy-E supports PCI-3.0 officially. SB-E is officially PCI-E 2.0 although there is a hack to enable 3.0 but it has some issues. The socket advantage is down to the PCI-E bandwidth that socket 2011 offers.
 
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ALXAndy said:
It is quite a lot tbh.

Saber has 8+2 power stages. CHV has 8+2+2
CHV has a different RAID controller.
CHV has Intel Pro series network controller (not a Realtek)
CHV has Supreme Audio.
CHV has ROG connect.
CHV has Three Way SLI support.

So the extra £40 IMO does net you a lot of stuff. The better sound card and network card are worth it alone.
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Hadn't realised the Saber didn't had a Realtek rather than Intel network controller. That would be enough reason for me to spend the extra tbh, but probably because I've had issues with Realtek network adaptors in the past, whereas Intel one's have always been rock solid and hassle free for me.
 
As an FYI, the Crosshair V, like the IV is a realtek chip, I find the marketing poor to be honest.
It does however have the software/codec support that the other boards lack, and thus sounds nicer (As I remember very clearly when I had my IV)

So when I went to a Maximus IV Extreme from Intel, the sound was worse, due to the software support of the Crosshair.
 
Martini1991 said:
As an FYI, the Crosshair V, like the IV is a realtek chip, I find the marketing poor to be honest.
It does however have the software/codec support that the other boards lack, and thus sounds nicer (As I remember very clearly when I had my IV)

So when I went to a Maximus IV Extreme from Intel, the sound was worse, due to the software support of the Crosshair.
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Yes thats correct but no1 was talking about sound
 
Be aware that whilst the Supreme Audio is better than normal on board, it is still a really cheap realtek as Martini said. If you don't want the intel NIC, you'd get much better sound with the sabertooth + discrete sound card for the same money

edit: a bit late with that post given the previous ones :(
 
teppic said:
Yeah, it's still only Realtek, just with extras.

If sound's important, I'd recommend this - it's brilliant, I have it. It's regularly on offer.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-087-CL
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I've bought one of those before for a friends build, haven't the foggiest how it performs like, use an essence STX myself.

nikki5974 said:
Yes thats correct but no1 was talking about sound
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Except that it's been brought up twice, without that all important fact.
 
ALXAndy said:
It is quite a lot tbh.

Saber has 8+2 power stages. CHV has 8+2+2
CHV has a different RAID controller.
CHV has Intel Pro series network controller (not a Realtek)
CHV has Supreme Audio.
CHV has ROG connect.
CHV has Three Way SLI support.

So the extra £40 IMO does net you a lot of stuff. The better sound card and network card are worth it alone.
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I gotta say though the sound card is bloody marvellous, as is the software that comes with it.
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Oh yea those 2 posts about sound but why did you need to post what you did no1 questioned what sound chip was in both ?
 
Gazb said:
Hadn't realised the Saber didn't had a Realtek rather than Intel network controller. That would be enough reason for me to spend the extra tbh, but probably because I've had issues with Realtek network adaptors in the past, whereas Intel one's have always been rock solid and hassle free for me.
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Or did you get confused and was reffering to this post that was just above yours
 
The STX is supposed to be amazing for top end headphones and extremely good for music. The SBZ is lower quality but has CMSS3D, which is much better than dolby digital (which I used to use) if you want to use either.
 
I'm confused though why this is an issue. The higher end motherboard sound chips are mostly just standard ones but isolated, it's an important point if your buying is influenced by the sound.
 
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