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Ruprekt79

Ruprekt79

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Hi. I over the weekend built a budget pc comprising of:

Intel g860 cpu
8gb ram
amd hd 7770 xfx

a few weeks ago my brother made the following:

Amd a8-3760
Amd hd 6670
6 gb ram

tried Crysis 2 on both and mind (top one) plays it on ultra at 1600x900 smoothly with no drops in frame rate. My brothers amd machine will hardly play the game at all on any setting and on ultra is just a slideshow.
what will be the big difference here? My hd7770?

I wouldn't have thought his crossfire setup world be that far behind my hd7770?
 
Doomedspeed said:
6 fb of ram doesn't seem right, you know fm2 is Dual channel right?.

He does have hybrid xfire enabled right?
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Not only is it dual channel, but you'll need RAM running 1866 to get good frame rates, 2133/2400 to great frame rates.

Although, depending on the rest of the setup, the difference in frame rate between 1866/2133 & 2400 can be minimal.
 
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Ruprekt79 said:
Hi thanks for the replies. I'm confused about the ram?
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What speed is the RAM you have?

Trinity relies on fast RAM for the graphics to give good frame rates. Even if you are using it in hybrid x/fire, you'll be better off with 1866mhz+.

You could always remove the g/card and use the APU (Integrated Graphics on the Processor) to see if it's any better.
 
Thanks for that, I just read it through.

Now here is where I come clean, funny story about my divvy brother......

A few months ago he built his own PC for the first time. Bought the AMD A8-5600, normal 1600mhz RAM and an extra discrete HD6670. He was happy with it until I built mine this weekend which is an Intel G860, 8GB RAM and an XFX HD7770. My brothers struggles to run Crysis 2 on any setting / resolution and he baulks when he saw mine running it at 1080p on ultra settings with a very smooth framerate.
In a jealous rampage he yesterday goes into his CPU and GPU settings and overclocks them both to ??? % and 30 mins later.......BANG! PC goes off. He then tries to switch it back on and it powers up, fans start spinning but no BIOS screen or boot. He thinks he needs to resit the CPU and put new thermal paste on(?!??!) so takes the CPU into the toilet and with a damp bit of toilet paper he starts to clean off the old thermal paste (he's telling me all this on the phone this morning). He then drops of the cpu into the toilet by accident.........then tries to dry it in the oven lol!
Low and behold when he resits the cpu it doesn't work and the pc isn't even powering up anymore.......

He doesn't come to forums to get advice like me as he always thinks he knows best, whereas I know that you guys will be able to help him improve his PC.

So in summary, when he gets his PC back working he is best to get the fm2 high speed ram rather than standard DDR3. Do you think that will vastly improve matters or could it be his gpu set up that's stuttering his performance? Even though his discrete gpu is a HD 6670, I would have thought that, coupled with the APU would play Crysis 2 on low res/settings better than it does?

Sorry, I had to share that funny story with you guys as all my work colleagues are female and wouldn't really see the funny side. :)
 
Well if that is true and he put his **** soaked A8 back in his system he'd need a brand new PC, motherboard would have suffered due to water in the pins.

I don't he would have blown his CPU, it would have been his gpu if anything. That's why he wouldn't of seen the bios..

So that's 3 expensive bits ruined...

Did he even have hybrid xfire enabled?

Show your brother this thread, please.
 
No trolling, true story.

He only told me what happened this morning but if he had told me straight away, my guess would have been his gpu and I would have heavily advised not to put his cpu in the oven.

His toothpaste is Arm and Hammer with Baking Soda so might not be too great as a substitute thermal paste. :)

No it's a true story I thought I would share as it was funny.

Doomedspeed, am not sure if he had Xfire enabled. Having heard about him say he put his cpu in the oven to 'dry' my guess would be no.
 
Oh and doomedspeed I'd like to thank you for your reply to me post last week about what setup to go for as I am glad I went for the G860 cpu.

Cheers
 
yes a 7770 is quite a bit faster than a 6670 as its a generation and a performance number infront, wouldnt be surprised if your pentium dual core has more cpu power than the a8 also
 
Ruprekt79 said:
Oh and doomedspeed I'd like to thank you for your reply to me post last week about what setup to go for as I am glad I went for the G860 cpu.

Cheers
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No worries. :)

The G860 is a great CPU for the price.

Out of interest any reason you went for the 7770 over the 7850, was it just finical reasons? I understand that. :)

Say Hi to your brother for me. :)
 
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