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Ruprekt79

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?
 
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. :)
 
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
 
Yeah it's half the price of the i3 (or near about) and I wouldn't have thought it's half the performance? I never even would have considered it had I not asked on this forum.

The 7770 was purely due to budget. It was either HD 7770 or the GTX 650 and after reading benchmarks, reviews etc it looked like the 7770 was the better of the two. I was also afraid the 7850 and the G860 may have bottlenecked?

I will say a big hello from everyone who has read this post. I will also ask him to consider seeking advice on his next PC / upgrade. :)
 
Update from my brother.

He had the audacity to take his components back (after dropping the cpu in the bog and drying it in the oven, putting it back into his motherboard etc).

The guys looked at it, noticed some bent pins on the bottom of the cpu, straightened them, booted it up and all is well! :)

Hopefully he has learnt his lesson.
 
I know, that's my brother though. Not many people would get away with bending the pins, dropping it in the toilet and cooking the cpu and still have it work at the end.

Hopefully from now on though my posts will be a little more serious and less about toilets.
 
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