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Thinking of switching from Intel to AMD
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I do love playing Firestike and Cinebench.
In WoW, you won't be at the GPU bottleneck, it's lightly threaded, core for core performance counts, there's a factual difference in performance figures in the favour of the Intel.
I know when I played SWTOR, my GPU wasn't maxing out, definitely CPU bound there, so again, no idea why you didn't see a difference.
In WoW, you won't be at the GPU bottleneck, it's lightly threaded, core for core performance counts, there's a factual difference in performance figures in the favour of the Intel.
I know when I played SWTOR, my GPU wasn't maxing out, definitely CPU bound there, so again, no idea why you didn't see a difference.
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Tbh i think its smoother game play on the AMD.I use RivaTuner for the fps in game and thats how i know the fps is almost the same across all 3
Was just saying too the wife how much i like this new pc over my last 2 that i had and it cost a lot less than the i7 but about £40 more than the i5 but thats mainly down to the PSU i have now 2 the 1 in the i5 set up
Was just saying too the wife how much i like this new pc over my last 2 that i had and it cost a lot less than the i7 but about £40 more than the i5 but thats mainly down to the PSU i have now 2 the 1 in the i5 set up
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Unless it's under Phase, I bet I can show its instability quite quickly lol.
Even at 5.4GHZ, it doesn't have the same grunt as a 4.8GHZ Sandy i5/i7 would in WoW, it's impossibru.
The IPC deficit isn't made up by that extra 600MHZ, and it doesn't use more threads than an i5/i7 have cores to make up the deficit in more cores.
Unless his CPU has fairy dust on it, it's factually impossible.
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under water only i need silence cause tower is right next 2 me in the living room by the TV and i gotta hear the TV
Im not knocking intel i think there great cpu's just owning 2 and the FX i personaly prefer the AMD
Another thing i managed to overclock my ram much more on the AMD than i did on the i5, 2k+ on AMD 1800ish on the i5 but thats mainly down 2 the FSB overclocking
Im not knocking intel i think there great cpu's just owning 2 and the FX i personaly prefer the AMD
Another thing i managed to overclock my ram much more on the AMD than i did on the i5, 2k+ on AMD 1800ish on the i5 but thats mainly down 2 the FSB overclocking
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I can understand the preference of something, but what you're saying defies the facts of the CPU's and the game in question 
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I think this forum needs a face palming e-mote.
Just because mantle gives a performance increase to 8320/50, doesn't mean you will see the same benefit on another processor. If mantle helps utilize those extra cores and threads on an 8320/50, it will gain a better boost in performance over a i5. The boost from hardware optimization like this depends on the hardware and wont be a uniform improvement over all CPUs.
Whether the boost will push the fx 8 cores ahead of their intel equivalents, we wont know until we see mantle perform on both.
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I uhhh.
I really would love to believe this, but i just cant. Have you had another go at clocking the ram on a different chip? maybe you had a bad memory controller.
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Must have been a magic Athlon.
I'm not on about the general stuff, I mean hell, we've all used older CPU's perfectly fine, I'm on about end game when stuff gets messy.
Back when I played those games quite heavily, guess what I had? Phenom II's. In fact, I had one of the fastest conventionally cooled Thubans.
But I didn't bring up playing MMO's.
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I can understand the preference of something, but what you're saying defies the facts of the CPU's and the game in question
Just my experience
hit 240 fps in wow with vsync off
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Not when it gets hairy you won't.
I was just playing Borderlands 1, it goes from 280 FPS to 140 FPS in a second.
Not knocking it, if I spoke just on experience terms, it'd be AMD all the way, as my experience with AMD was pretty positive.
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I was giving an example that FPS figures can change in an instance? I was literally just playing Borderlands 1, and I saw my FPS switch from 280 to 140 in a second
Not sure where the PhysX comes into it, it's the software implementation on the CPU that's running in BL1.
I do run an AMD GPU, an R9 290.
I don't like Nvidia as a company, I don't like the fact I can't use my monitor's 3D to its full with an Nvidia GPU, I only buy AMD GPU's.
Not sure where the PhysX comes into it, it's the software implementation on the CPU that's running in BL1.
I do run an AMD GPU, an R9 290.
I don't like Nvidia as a company, I don't like the fact I can't use my monitor's 3D to its full with an Nvidia GPU, I only buy AMD GPU's.
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