I upgraded from a 4770K and went to a 5820K. In the grand scheme of things, it wasn't the most significant of upgrades, but I really had the itch to rebuild. I can say that I'm overall very satisfied with the performance of this chip. If X99 is able to fit into someone's budget without...
This issue is incredibly frustrating and annoying. There are several times where the AMD GPU just doesn't "wake up". I'm fortunate to have an integrated HD 4600 GPU that I also use in my system. I know that this is an AMD issue because the integrated chip wakes up just fine, while the monitor...
If you can get a good price on it, I second the recommendation of the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2. I ran one for several years before it finally gave in (I pushed the system extremely hard). It was an excellent motherboard with a good set of features.
X58 motherboard prices are all over the place these...
The quality loss is measurable, but it's not really going to be an issue in most cases. The picture quality is more than acceptable even for quality encodes. When I'm encoding, it's usually because I'm going for a much smaller file size that can be fit onto a mobile device or USB flash drive...
I got QuickSync working alongside my dedicated GPU since I wanted to use it for very large encodes (i.e. raw Blu-ray rips) and streaming. I benchmarked it against my Core i7-4770K.
4770K @4.4GHz:
Enabling QuickSync, and using Best Quality preset:
I'm happy with the performance increase! The...
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