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I know dude.
But seriously, too many people need to be taken to a PC camp and made to realise that the GPU is what does the work, especially these days.
It amazes me how many so called enthusiasts on this board have not bought an AMD set up to determine it for themselves, so just go around spouting utter nonsense.
Intel forced me to AMD when they started locking down all of their cheaper CPUs. I've never really focussed on CPUs before because I always saw the GPU as the most important part of the rig.
But telling a guy to ditch what he has and spend a small fortune on 'upgrading' to Intel is just horse poo.
He has the best board you can get on AM3+ (well no, actually that prize belongs to the CHVFZ but they both have 8 phase CPU stages) and he can take any chip that will allow it to 5ghz.
As soon as you reach 4.4 on the 8 core CPU you're well up there with the Intels.
I just wish people would just stop allowing themselves to be brainwashed and actually sit down and figure this stuff out for themselves. It's incredible what sort of rubbish has managed to fester and then become some sort of delusional fanboy fact.
If I were AMD I wouldn't even bother wasting more money on CPU R&D because no matter how good they were you'd still have nonsense like this going around.
But seriously, too many people need to be taken to a PC camp and made to realise that the GPU is what does the work, especially these days.
It amazes me how many so called enthusiasts on this board have not bought an AMD set up to determine it for themselves, so just go around spouting utter nonsense.
Intel forced me to AMD when they started locking down all of their cheaper CPUs. I've never really focussed on CPUs before because I always saw the GPU as the most important part of the rig.
But telling a guy to ditch what he has and spend a small fortune on 'upgrading' to Intel is just horse poo.
He has the best board you can get on AM3+ (well no, actually that prize belongs to the CHVFZ but they both have 8 phase CPU stages) and he can take any chip that will allow it to 5ghz.
As soon as you reach 4.4 on the 8 core CPU you're well up there with the Intels.
I just wish people would just stop allowing themselves to be brainwashed and actually sit down and figure this stuff out for themselves. It's incredible what sort of rubbish has managed to fester and then become some sort of delusional fanboy fact.
If I were AMD I wouldn't even bother wasting more money on CPU R&D because no matter how good they were you'd still have nonsense like this going around.
same here ran a 6300 on my r9 290 and swapped to the xeon (basically I7 for I5 price) only difference was top and bottom fps went up.
In certain games a lot.
War thunder went from 120 fps av to 210 av.
but like you say its only in benchmark figures real world not noticiable.
boot speeds maybe a little quicker and a few other programs but thats about it.
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His opening line says all you need to know. You are an AMD person or an Intel person.
I think I know which camp philo-sofa falls intp.
Just as a quick follow up, I ended up buying an 8350 from elsewhere and have just fitted it today. Its running at the default 4.0ghz for the time being and I noticed real improvements in DayZ(standalone) and even more so in BF4( really quite noticeable improvements at my clocked to 4.4ghz 6300) so I feel its been a really worthwhile investment.
Thank you everyone for the input, just after some direction for overclocking now. I have the Sabertooth(rev1) and would like pointed to a simpletons guide to clocking this thing to at least 4.4/4.5ghz. When I say simpletons guide, I mean it lol
Thank you everyone for the input, just after some direction for overclocking now. I have the Sabertooth(rev1) and would like pointed to a simpletons guide to clocking this thing to at least 4.4/4.5ghz. When I say simpletons guide, I mean it lol
And as a quick side note, might be wrong section but heyho....
I have an K2 mountdoom cooler on this, and when I first put it together, I fitted it onto the mobo while still outside the case, no sweat. Couldn't be bothered removing the whole mobo etc just to fit a new cpu and refit the cooler, and it turned into a real bloody ballache refitting the fans to the heatsink with those fiddly wee clips!
Any recommendations for a decent but not too expensive cooler that isnt so friggin massive to replace the K2, as cool and quiet as it is
I have an K2 mountdoom cooler on this, and when I first put it together, I fitted it onto the mobo while still outside the case, no sweat. Couldn't be bothered removing the whole mobo etc just to fit a new cpu and refit the cooler, and it turned into a real bloody ballache refitting the fans to the heatsink with those fiddly wee clips!
Any recommendations for a decent but not too expensive cooler that isnt so friggin massive to replace the K2, as cool and quiet as it is
Tbh your not going to get much better than the k2 as far as air coolers go. As a k2 owner myself i can sympathise with you regarding the clips. They are very fiddly to fit. But they are very secure once you get them in place.