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Are you waiting for Kaby Lake?

Nope. I wont be looking at Skylake, Kaby Lake, or even Zen. I already have a LGA 1150 H97 motherboard. I can still buy a very, very capable i7 or Xeon E3 without having to buy DDR4 RAM and a new motherboard. Marginal returns after the 8th hardware thread are really, really small in games...
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- Post #52
- Nov 19, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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How do Android users feel about high-end Android phones losing performance battles against iPhones?

The frustrating thing about latest Snapdragon processors is not that they are slower (and slower by a wide margin), its that they are slower while using more energy. The Snapdragon 820 still has noticeable thermal throttling in my HTC 10 and its not much faster than the 805 my Nexus 6. Apple's...
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- Post #146
- Oct 4, 2016
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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HTC 10 $549 Oct 1 - Oct 8

$550 is an excellent price for the HTC 10. I bought it at full price and I think it was worth it, but I can see how it can be a tough sell for others, especially those who don't live in the US. The phone is a must if you have higher impedance and/or higher quality headphones that see bottlenecks...
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- Post #7
- Oct 4, 2016
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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A look into APU graphics performance in modern games.

It doesn't really matter how much faster the Kaveri GPU is since it still doesn't produce the performance that is anywhere near desirable for anyone trying to do a decent amount of gaming on their computer. This is the problem with APUs and the reason why they sell poorly: the iGPU's greater...
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- Post #100
- Aug 13, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Who bought/is buying a Radeon RX 480?

Not me. My 380x is fast enough for what I want it to do.
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- Post #289
- Jul 13, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Clarification - Does TDP correspond to maximum gaming load power or not?

The obvious answer: not everyone is an enthusiast. Not everyone has a case that can handle 250W+ of graphics card heat. Not everyone has great PSUs either. Performance is great, but that joy is significantly stymied when it comes at the cost of much worse efficiency.
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- Post #11
- Jul 13, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Now We All See the Genius of AMD Going Lowend First

It came at the cost of DX11 performance, and thus a massive tumble in market share. Seeing how Pascal can just use brute force to keep the leads in Async games, AMD still isn't the clear winner of DX12 yet.
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- Post #16
- Jul 13, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Clarification - Does TDP correspond to maximum gaming load power or not?

TDP is really a measure of how much you should expect to have to cool and supply power for given intended workloads and stock conditions. Its easy to make a card exceed its TDP by loading up a "power vampire" software like Furmark or Kombustor that taxes 100% of a GPU's resources which doesn't...
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- Post #7
- Jul 13, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AMD Raven Ridge 'Zen APU' Thread

What AMD really needs to work on before concerning itself with L4$, EDRAM, or HBM2 on the CPU package/die is to upgrade the APU's IMC. The current one in Steamroller is terrible, with it getting around 1/2 the bandwidth that a similar Haswell CPU gets at the same frequencies.
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- Post #64
- Jul 7, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel I3-4130T vs I5 4590T worth extra $120?

It depends on the game. I can multitask a bunch when I am running something light like PCSX2 (usually only around 10% usage) but if I left YouTube running while hopping in BF4 or Skyrim i'm going to have around half the performance. Watching streams while playing games is definitely going to...
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- Post #31
- Jul 21, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel I3-4130T vs I5 4590T worth extra $120?

You won't. The number of cores are pretty much irrelevant when it comes to web browsing when you are using such a fast architecture like Haswell. Browsing performance really comes down to more how much RAM your computer has, how much RAM your browser can use, and whether you have Flash enabled...
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- Post #27
- Jul 21, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is the 290(x) Going to Outlive a GTX 970?

No, it just means that there isn't really much optimization you can do. People seem to think that optimization is some sort of unlimited magic that gradually makes a GPU faster. AMD has been on GCN for 4+ years. AMD doesn't have a lot of money, so their driver improvement is more gradual than...
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- Post #46
- Jul 12, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Downgraded to a Celeron

The i3 41XX series has 3MiB of level 3 cache and they use the 16EU version of the GT2 graphics. It used to be so that you could only buy the lowly i3-4130 and its lower power brother, i3-4130T, but with the refresh you can get the i3 4150, the 4160, and even the 4170 which has a clock rate of...
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- Post #91
- Jul 3, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Techspot] Athlon x4 860K vs Pentium G3258 deathmatch

Finally a post that explains to most how Hyperthreading works. I swear, most PC gamers must think its a genie that rests in a CPU that provides a 30% boost in stuff... when it feels like it. Also, I disagree with the conclusion of the article. The i3 mentioned towards the end is the i3 4370, of...
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- Post #60
- Jun 27, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Desktop Roadmap 2016-2017

Now that backwards compatibility is in no way a concern right now with the new Zen CPUs hopefully AMD can use this as a chance to implement a LGA socket.
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- Post #22
- Jun 20, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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No dual core love in 2015

Certain processors from Microcenter allow you to get 40$ off a motherboard if you bundle them. The i3 4370, the i5 4690K, and the i7 4790K are those processors for Intel. That would have made the i5 4690 $60 more expensive from the $20 more for the processor and $40 from paying full price for my...
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- Post #321
- Jun 18, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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No dual core love in 2015

Im going to throw away my i3 4370 and replace it with a Athlon 5350. Since its a quad core it must be better, right?
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- Post #319
- Jun 18, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Do high end user use AMD instead of Intel?

Hello everyone. Its that neighborhood i3 user here ready to give my $.02. I was in the process of planning my build when I discovered that Intel made a new CPU as part of the Haswell Refresh line. The i3 4370. It comes with a base clock of 3.8GHz and 4MB of L3$ which makes it the fastest i3...
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- Post #421
- Jun 18, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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What will happen when Intel brings core counts greater than four to mainstream?

It doesn't make sense to include more than four cores on a mainstream platform. We have to remember that the exact same die that constitutes a i7 4790k is what is being used to make mobile processors. Only the most highest end processors on mobile use a four core setup due to the heat output...
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- Post #112
- Jun 15, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Do high end user use AMD instead of Intel?

I don't get how people can be so hard headed about i3s. There are many benchmarks proving that HT is far more than just "marketing". How come people greatly value the i7's hyperthreading but passes off the i3's as just fake cores and are useless? It works on the hardware level so all of this...
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- Post #276
- Jun 15, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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860k or fx6300 or g3258

Hi, i3-4370 owner here. To say you need a quad core minimum is bad advice. That suggests that an Athlon 5350 is better than my i3 because of core count. It's better to say four threads to include i3s and because all two threaded CPUs perform poorly in newer games. The fact that the i3 (the...
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- Post #80
- Jun 13, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is the GTX 970 a 256bit card or not? I bought it because it was 256 bit.

Technically yes, but is functionally a 224 bit card with only 3584 MiB of the 4 GiB readily accessible.
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- Post #18
- Jun 11, 2015
- Forum: Nvidia
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Do high end user use AMD instead of Intel?

According to CPU World (I have no idea if they are very reputable) the FX 8350 is a whole 4% faster in MT than the i5 4590 is. http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/372/AMD_FX-Series_FX-8350_vs_Intel_Core_i5_i5-4590.html
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- Post #119
- Jun 7, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Practical Difference between i3 and i5 for Alienware Alpha?

I'll let you know i'm typing this with an i3 4370 so there is going to be some bias, but i'm not going to mislead you. The i3 4130T is going to pretty much be hitting that 2.9GHz all the time. The i5 and the i7s have Turbo Boost, but since Intel states that their clock speeds can go"up to" 3GHz...
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- Post #25
- May 14, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD trims prices across its APU lineup

Nothing. They don't need one. People who are generally satisfied with an iGPU are going to go with something like a i3 4330 for around the same price. For non-gamers, the HD 4600 is already pretty powerful and those types of casual users don't really need more. Instead, they get a CPU that is...
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- Post #40
- May 10, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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GTA V CPU benches - AMD gets hammered (again)

The FX 6350 and 8350 did bench higher, albeit against one of the weakest i3s in the whole lineup, with the -T series SKUs only being worse. Also, those CPUs had a hefty clock rate advantage against the 4130 and only barely beat it, with the 6350 having a whopping one frame per second advantage...
- CriticalOne
- Post #186
- Apr 17, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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