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    Question What do you think is most important when considering a mobile phone CPU?

    Truthfully, it's not something I give much thought to. I don't do anything fancy on my phones and usually just buy the cheap prepaid phone with the best specs. I've had a $100 Moto e5 Cruise for close to two years now and it still gets the job done. If I were ever going to buy a flagship phone...
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    Worst CPUs ever, now with poll!

    Worse is an understatement. A Willamette P4-1400 was about as fast as a P3-900. The first P4's were dreadful. Once Intel beefed up the cache, better compliers were written, and the clock speeds went past 2 GHz, it was a competitive part, but still was terribly inefficient. I voted for the Itanic...
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    Pale Moon switching engines!

    Personal preference. I use Pale Moon all of the time, because I don't want to use a corporate browser, and Firefox, to me, is just plain awful these days. The new UI looks like a half-baked clone of Chrome and works even worse. Pale Moon isn't perfect, but it's the best alternative.
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    Can I put a Phenom x4 into THIS AM2+ MOBO?

    This has nothing to do with AMD. Any AM2+ motherboard will physically support any AM3 (but not AM3+) CPU, even a Phenom II X6 1100T. Whether or not the motherboard has BIOS support and strong enough VRM's to power it are up to whoever made the motherboard. And if you think Intel is any more...
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    YAXPT: Will you stop using XP after support runs out?

    Actually, most of XP was built in 1999, when the NT 5 kernel was introduced in Windows 2000. In computer terms, XP is Mesozoic. I retired my last XP system a few years ago, and dual boot Windows 7 and Mint 16 these days.
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    Core i5 3570 stock performance's good for demanding games at 1080p?

    Any recent Intel i5 desktop CPU or better--Sandy, Ivy, or Haswell--will get the job done.
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    How does this $80 AMD stack up against a Core i3 540?

    AMD processors struggle on any games that are heavily dependent on single-thread performance. The only way to get single-threaded performance in the same ballpark as an Intel chip is to buy an FX and overclock it, and even then the Intel will often win. AMD is very good value for the money if...
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    Why would/did you buy an AMD CPU?

    I've used AMD in my desktop systems for the last 15 years, except for one 18-month period when I upgraded to Core 2 Duo from a Socket 754 AMD system because AMD had nothing even remotely competitive at the time, and I couldn't wait for their new products to come out. Moving from 754 to 939 for...
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    AMD Smoother than Intel?

    An i7 2600K should always be faster than an X4 950, in any application or purpose. It's just a superior CPU across the board. The only way I can think of that the Phenom II might give a better experience is if you were running some sort of software that messes up on Hyperthreading. And in that...
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    Those who bought Lumia 521s . . .

    Get the update. The double-tap isn't a pointless gimmick, it makes waking the phone up easier. I have the Lumia 520, which is the same phone except that it's the AT&T version, and got the Black update a few weeks ago. The main things it improves on the 520/521 are adding the double-tap feature...
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    cpu upgrade from thuban ?

    Switching to a six-core FX would be little more than a sidegrade, but going to an 8320 or 8350 will give you a big performance boost. I had a 1035T for a long time and ran it at 3.6, then upgraded to an 8350 on the same board. At stock, the 8350 was just ahead of the overclocked Thuban, except...
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    Free app to clone a HD (DOS/BIOS, not Windows)?

    You're almost always better off just downloading a copy of your version of Windows from the Digital River site and then reinstalling from that, using your OEM product key. You'll have to go through the activation process again, but you'll also end up with a clean install without the crapware...
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    SOLVED: Best CPU upgd from Phenom x3 8750 on Asus M3A78-EM

    I would recommend you use the motherboard you just purchased over the one you have. The Gigabyte 970A-UD3 is a newer and better board than your current one, and it's an AM3+ board, so it will give you an option in the future to step up to an 8-core FX processor if you so desire. I've been using...
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    So I found an old SoundBlaster Audigy...

    Any dedicated sound card that isn't total crap is going to sound better than onboard. The Audigy might be old, but it is real hardware. I'm not a fan of Creative and haven't used one of their cards in probably 15 years, but they are way better than using onboard if you want good sound.
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    A10-7850K or i7-4770k for computational tasks

    Kaveri wins if your software can actually use its capabilities. Otherwise, you'd be a lot better off with a 4770K. Any current Intel quadcore or better is going to beat Kaveri in CPU performance.
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    Suggestions for an older Inspiron 1720

    It's still good enough. I'm still using a D830 with a 2.4 GHz T7700 with 3GB of RAM. The only real upgrade it's had has been a Momentus XT hybrid drive to speed things up a bit, and the battery gave up last winter so it got a new one. I can run it about two hours on battery, and as someone else...
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    2gb Ram - Enough for win7 ?

    There's a hacker somewhere in Timbuktu or Kathmandu who's laughing at you right now while he reads every keystroke that you type in. No one should continue to run XP beyond the EOL date unless it is totally off the network. Period. Really, no one should be running it now, supported or not...
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    How soon until magnetic HDs become obsolete?

    It's going to be quite a ways into the future before HDD's completely disappear. SSD's will have to reach price parity and they'll have to be able to retain the contents of memory for longer time periods (not that it's bad now) without being powered on. The more important thing is continuing the...
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    2gb Ram - Enough for win7 ?

    DX10 doesn't matter on a machine like this, but not having patches for security flaws in XP does matter. There's no way I would run XP on any machine after the end of support unless it was entirely off any network. To be perfectly honest, I'd run Linux on a machine with those specs, because XP...
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    What phone os is the most intuitive?

    Agree on Windows Phone being the simplest to pick up on. Between the two biggest platforms, I find iOS to be easier, but Android to have more capabilities once you learn it.
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    HOT! AMD Kaveri A10-7850K 3.7GHz $129.99 + $40 off any MB + BF4!!

    CPU performance isn't even close. The IGP on Kaveri blows the Intel one into the weeds, and can actually be used to play games at medium settings, but Intel CPU performance is a lot higher, especially on single-threaded workloads. If you need CPU performance above all else, you'd need to go with...
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    Will x86 be here "forever"?

    If Intel offers superior computing power in the same power envelope as ARM, which is going to happen, then software developers will find ways to use that power in smartphones and tablets, and ARM will either have to match it or they will lose. The fact Intel will be the only x86 vendor in...
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    FX-8320 overclocking (probably obvious)

    It sucks down some juice, that's for sure. I just ran Cinebench 11.5 on my 8350, hard-set at 4.2 GHz, and the total power draw for the system rose from 191W to as much as 369W during the test. There's a lot of hardware in this rig, but the 8350 had to have been pulling almost all of that extra...
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    AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz

    The T-birds were the fastest CPUs of their time. I still remember buying a 1.4 GHz, 266 bus Thunderbird for $149 at a time when it was the fastest CPU in the world. It wasn't a great overclocker--best I could do was to increase the bus speed from 133 to 138 and run it at 1.52 GHz--but then...
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    Should I get new CPU?

    If it's just a matter of a weak power supply and your motherboard is otherwise capable of overclocking, then upgrade to a good PSU and overclock the 1045T. You should make at least 3.5 GHz with no problem, probably 3.7, maybe 3.9 or 4.0. Even at 3.5, you'd get acceptable performance. I had a...
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    With the current rate of Intel CPU performance increases, could AMD be catching up?

    Well, that was one of my points. AMD can't just catch Intel by ramping up to enormous clock speeds, even if the architecture is theoretically capable of doing so. They don't have access to Intel's production facilities, and they're often a process node behind, or at least well behind in...
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    With the current rate of Intel CPU performance increases, could AMD be catching up?

    AMD closed the gap a tiny bit with Piledriver relative to IB, but at that rate, they'd probably catch Intel in about 25 years. AMD has actually beaten Intel twice, first with the original Athlon in 1999, and then with the introduction of the A64 in 2003. Both times, Intel won back the...
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    Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 + ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA + ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    Glad to see these old boards are still going strong for people. I had the 775Dual-VSTA for a long time, E4300 at 2.4 GHz on it. Was still going great when I sold it on this site a few years back. Never ran VSTA on it, though.
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    There's a lot of hate here...

    If you come on an enthusiast site, most people these days are going to be using Intel because they have the fastest CPU's right now. Doesn't mean they hate AMD, just that they want the fastest processor. Back in 2000, or in 2003, when AMD had the fastest processor, everybody didn't hate Intel...
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    Pentium 4 3.2@4.5 Stable. If I get the 3.6 do you think I'll get 5GHz stable?

    You have more patience than I do, sir. I love tinkering around with old hardware, but the one line of CPUs I will not touch are anything NetBurst. I fix a lot of computers for a lot of friends, but if they ask me to work on a P4, I tell them to get a new computer. Fortunately, most of them have...
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    Is a Vishera Refresh Coming?

    All microarchitectures reach a point where they can't scale higher. If AMD thought a die-shrink for Thuban would have reached significantly higher clock speeds without consuming enormous power, they would have made one. It probably would have been what Ivy Bridge is to Sandy Bridge, and not been...
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    can my cpu fit in another socket??

    It will work in an AM2+ socket. It will probably not work in an ordinary AM2 socket, and is not supported.
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    Is there anyway to overclock or improve the performance of Clovetrail Atom Z2640?

    If Intel thought that it was capable of 2.4, they would have spec'd it for that speed. Or it might be able to get there, but require so much power that even in bursts, it would kill battery life.
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    Intels in trouble..

    Indeed, an elephant in the room that a lot of people overlook. Even a low-power Atom CPU beats the ever-living crap out of anything ARM makes in CPU performance, and any mobile OS can easily be ported to run on such a processor. Heck, it can even run Android apps in emulation easily. Don't be...
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    Intels in trouble..

    I think you're going to find that the supposed demise of standard PC's is greatly exaggerated. Every game under development is going to be coded for x86-64 CPU's. I believe Intel makes those too. And once Nvidia gets its drivers mature for the Titan, I bet that will no longer be the case. A...
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    Upgrade of Lenovo Y450 Core 2 duo T6600 processor.

    Probably is better just to get a new laptop. As a general rule of thumb, any laptop with a socketed CPU can be upgraded to anything that is supported by the socket, up to the maximum performance level the OEM used in that particular product line. If Lenovo ever made a version with a Q9100 in it...
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    CPU performance matters...

    Well, they're not lying about it being good enough, because for the vast majority of people, it is. Honestly, I have an FX-8350 in my desktop rig, and a six-year-old C2D T7200 in my laptop, a 2 GHz dual-core. And for 95 percent of the things I do, there's no difference between the two. If I surf...
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    CPU performance matters...

    That's exactly what he did. He called out Intel's daddy to whip up on AMD's little brother. If I tell someone that CPU performance doesn't matter much (it does matter some, but not like it used to), it's in the context of telling them that upgrading their 4 GHz Core 2 Quad, older model i7, or...
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    First Overclock: Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition

    No, that's Intel FUD, repeated ad nauseaum by Intel fanboys. The FX architecture has nothing to do with hyperthreading or AMD attempting to duplicate it. It's AMD's second borrowing from the old Alpha 21264 architecture of the late 1990s. The Athlon and Athlon XP used its bus protocol, and now...
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    Mobile Haswell achieves all day battery life - beginning of the end for ARM?

    All true. ARM chips are dirt-cheap, and they're good enough for the consumer-oriented media consumption devices that they're optimized for. Smartphones and tablets aren't going anywhere, and they'll keep using ARM because it's cost-effective and good enough. Devices, whether they be...
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