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Marine-RX179 said:
In WAY before you :rolleyes: Look at 2nd post of this thread...

I gave very objective opinions on all the CPUs and commented on cost and usage accordingly.
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Quite right Marine - however I quoted a post after yours which is impossible to predict until he posts thus why it is there. :rolleyes:

I was anticipating the riposte, which as we know is typically blind/biased/misrepresentative (delete applicable) from some posters although yourself you are pretty reasonable - I don't mind an intelligent debate. :p
 
teppic said:
Busy weekend there...

What board is with the 8320? No benchmarks at stock, please :p
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I don't know on what board yet, so far I've only ordered the R9 290.
Waiting on more cash, I need to get to the bank too.
4770k should be ordered today.

But I need to be careful with the spending, gotta plan it out.

Unfortunately, it's my girlfriend's 20th (So that'll be a night out Saturday) I'll be busy till Saturday as it is at work.

Only day I'd have free is Sunday (I don't get hang overs)

Nothing would be at stock if I did it though :p

Bearing in mind these parts are for lads rigs (The 4670K goes with the R9 290 and the FX8320 is going with the 7950)

Since I support over a dozen systems, I can shift people about, get them good upgrades, and good prices, and all are parts I've bought so I have no warranty issues with giving them X or Y part from X or Y system at a cheaper price.
 
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teppic said:
Busy weekend there...

What board is with the 8320? No benchmarks at stock, please :p
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Yes. I guess we can test for bottlenecks, how well they crossfire, minimum fps and clock frequency differences - albeit ofc Martin has the time and inclination.
 
Martini1991 said:
I don't know on what board yet, so far I've only ordered the R9 290.
Waiting on more cash, I need to get to the bank too.
4770k should be ordered today.

But I need to be careful with the spending, gotta plan it out.

Unfortunately, it's my girlfriend's 20th (So that'll be a night out Saturday) I'll be busy till Saturday as it is at work.

Only day I'd have free is Sunday (I don't get hang overs)

Nothing would be at stock if I did it though :p

Bearing in mind these parts are for lads rigs (The 4670K goes with the R9 290 and the FX8320 is going with the 7950)

Since I support over a dozen systems, I can shift people about, get them good upgrades, and good prices, and all are parts I've bought so I have no warranty issues with giving them X or Y part from X or Y system at a cheaper price.
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The best board on a budget is the Asus 970 EVO R2.0 (£80-90), or for Crossfire the Sabertooth if you shop around. Anything cheaper than £100 other than the Asus will struggle to get over ~4.3GHz on the CPU.

And the hangovers will come eventually...
 
teppic said:
The best board on a budget is the Asus 970 EVO R2.0 (£80-90), or for Crossfire the Sabertooth if you shop around. Anything cheaper than £100 other than the Asus will struggle to get over ~4.3GHz on the CPU.

And the hangovers will come eventually...
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For the 4670K I'm getting that 86 quid MSI Z87 with cooler, as long as it can shoot 1.3v into the CPU I'm pegging on it getting 4.6GHZ.

I'll try getting that Asus board, hopefully get at least 4.6GHZ, maybe push upto 4.8.

People have been telling me the hangovers will come for the last 5 years :p. So far, no matter what state I'm in, despite what I've drank, I'll wake up, take a dump and I'm fine.

Only thing is if I do an R9 290 Crossfire on the AMD, I'd struggle, as I'd need to either rip my PSU out of my rig, which will be a pain, or rip my board out and shove the AMD set up in my case (Also a pain, I have a full custom water loop, which the 4770K will be under)
 
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The Asus 970 can run the CPU to around 4.8GHz, it just lacks decent Crossfire support. The 990X version is about £100 otherwise, but for full 16x16x support it needs to be 990FX. The sub £100 990FX boards are a waste of money.
 
Don't buy a board based on SLI support guys. I bought a £59 board with no SLI support and easily hacked it into life using HyperSLI. The cheapest SLI board was £90 and had worse VRMs lol.
 
Level of support, not whether it supports SLI or not - with the Asus 970 you're limited to 8x4x, with the 990X board it's 8x8x, and 16x16x on 990FX. All three do 16x on a single GPU.
 
teppic said:
Level of support, not whether it supports SLI or not - with the Asus 970 you're limited to 8x4x, with the 990X board it's 8x8x, and 16x16x on 990FX. All three do 16x on a single GPU.
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Yeah I understand that but the drop in performance (at least in SLI) is literally margin of error. In Firestrike my score actually went up over running X16 X16.
 
SLI isn't affected by bandwidth as much as Crossfire for some reason. 8x4x is quite a big difference over 16x16x (we're talking 4x2x vs 8x8x in PCI-E 3 terms).
 
jonnyp1993 said:
I use:

FX6300 @ 4.6 (max temp under load is 55c) and its under water.
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Board Chipset 970
8GB 1600mhz corsair XMS3 ram
XFX 7950 @ 1125/1560

i can play any game @ full at 1080. i average 60-80fps depending on the game.

i also use my pc for everything, internet, video editiing, gaming, etc etc.

my fx6300 can reach 5ghz, but not with my board.

hope this helps on your decision.

jonnyp
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Perfect Jonnyp,

RW stats, Defo going down the AMD route this time.
 
big.rich1976 said:
Perfect Jonnyp,

RW stats, Defo going down the AMD route this time.
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While I agree with you going AMD, his real world stats aren't correct, it's somewhat a hyperbolic blanket statement.
I with my 4670K and R9 290 wouldn't feel comfortable maxing a select games at 1080p, so how a 7950 with FX6300 does is beyond me.
 
Im gonna wait till January, Hopefully pick up more of a bargain in jan sales. Again thanks for all the advice. Been playing some games as well, Forgot how great my PC is.
 
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