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I DONT KNOW what to do

Gigabyte = UK Warranty support, there's no worry with the B-Grade board.
Fairly good board? It's one of the best socket 1150 boards, far superior to that AM3+ board.

You want the juice from it, but you'll be bottlenecked with the CPU in far more games than you're not with the FX, so the overclock will be moot.

My undervolted R9 290 is running a ~15% overclock pretty much, I wouldn't call that stockish clocks.

CPU's have ridiculously low rate of failure, no worry about going OEM.

Either way, it's the better gamer at the end of the day.
 
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Pretty much everything Martini has said :D
Didn't even know they had those boards in Bgrade...they'll be snapped up by tomorrow no doubt, mega value.

General rule of thumb, the CPU is either DOA or working. Rarely get a chip that dies unless excessive voltage is pushed through it so might as well save ££ getting OEM unless they're the same price.
 
Martini1991 said:
Gigabyte = UK Warranty support, there's no worry with the B-Grade board.

You want the juice from it, but you'll be bottlenecked with the CPU in far more games than you're not, so the overclock will be moot.

My undervolted R9 290 is running a ~15% overclock pretty much, I wouldn't call that stockish clocks.

CPU's have ridiculously low rate of failure, no worry about going OEM.

Either way, it's the better gamer at the end of the day.
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Yes for many games it would be but I'd say the difference would be hardly noticeable in most instances. I thought WoW would run like turd on my FX system but it runs beautifully even in 40-mans. Classical example of a "one corer" game. For well/multithreaded games like BF4 and Crysis 3, the FX 8 core would walk away. In upcoming games with equally good thread/core utilisation, again the FX would walk away.

To be fair both are fairly similar overall at the moment. It is just personal preference. If you like overclocking, the FX is also great fun to OC and gives a nice challenge/reward ratio.
 
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Well now we're getting into crystal ball territory, I also disagree with this "Walking away" but I'll just leave it.
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Disagreements are good things. Lead to debate, which is what forums are all about.

You don't need a crystal ball to experience BF4 and Crysis 3. I play them and at fairly incredible frame rates on ultra settings at 1080p. I'd be willing to compare my results with someone on a 4670k and an R290/780.
 
Does eve online utilise multiple cores?
Does Adobe image editors use multi cores?

AMD would work cheaper to allow for better gfx card and monitor
 
RoBoT said:
Does eve online utilise multiple cores?
Does Adobe image editors use multi cores?

AMD would work cheaper to allow for better gfx card and monitor
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Well, with the above specs, they're the same price, and the Intel is better, getting a better GPU over the 290 with the AMD CPU set up won't amount to really anything except in the minority of games.

Eve Online, I'm unsure of, but it'll run better on the Intel than the AMD, it's an oldish game.
 
Ebay has a GA-EX58-UD5 currently at auction for £25 with a few days left. I seriously would pick up a cheap 1366 board if you can be patient.
See no reason at all to move to Haswell , I was going to then did some research and its literally pointless providing your 920 is overclocked.
 
I might have fixed the board. She is running atm looks like possible PSU fault, although it looks like I broke off the graphics card retention clip on pcie slot 1 ffs and a big doh!!!

Thinking about using the boards auto overclock to get 4 gig.

I have the i7 920 do, on the asrock extreme 6 board any hints? Should I auto or follow a guide ?

Also I have 3 x 2 gig sticks of Kingston ram in there and 3 x 2 gig sticks of patriot ram all same spec, will that affect performance or the running of the pc?
 
I have a i7 950 and just built a new 4670k/tri-x 290 for my girlfriend. The upgrade itch to just get a 4770k is so strong now :( doubt I will be able to resist!
 
Well my priorities are now to get 27" high res monitor and a top notch gfx card, not sure which of each, looking at Dell Mayb samsung 970? And gfx not sure the 780 looks good but expensive but wants to be good for photo shop and eve amongst other things
 
Just been testing my PC over clock with prime95, it is now restarting saying ran into a problem and needs to restart. Error CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT ?
 
Don't bother with prime or any "stability" or "stress" software. At most run some looped benches like cinebench and then game on it normally. If it works, it is stable. If it crashes or BSODs, tweak more.
 
80-85c is fine imo on a 920

4ghz and 12gb+ of ram or more would need a huge amount of vtt(memory controller voltage)

auto oc is pants compared to manual oc,you reach same 4ghz with much kinder temps/less with manual voltage vs auto
 
Ok I am now manual and I set cpu voltage to 1.275 but cpu -z says 1.304? At 100% should I increase cpu voltage? Or leave it?
 
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