PC thread

[Solidus]

Right!? I've had 2 AMD processors. And another Intel from a long time ago.

Man... I've heard from others that AMD is no good now days, since they're essentially just adding on older cores to their latest releases. They were so awesome years back with their 6400+ Athlon line. Which processors did you have?

 

[Kibagami]

Man... I've heard from others that AMD is no good now days, since they're essentially just adding on older cores to their latest releases. They were so awesome years back with their 6400+ Athlon line. Which processors did you have?

I have their FX-8120. I overclocked the core to 4.0 GHz.

 

[Kibagami]

I'm going to have to get a newer board.

 

[Kibagami]

I might go for the I5.

 

[Solidus]

I have an i5 3570 K and it's incredible! Most of the time, you won't be able to tell the difference from an i7. Unless you're using multi-threaded application (eg. Autodesk Inventor), you'll see like a 20% performance boost with the i7. The i5 should be perfect for games, though.

 

[Kibagami]

I have an i5 3570 K and it's incredible! Most of the time, you won't be able to tell the difference from an i7. Unless you're using multi-threaded application (eg. Autodesk Inventor), you'll see like a 20% performance boost with the i7. The i5 should be perfect for games, though.

I heard the difference is unnoticeable. Like ... 5-6%?

 

[Solidus]

I heard the difference is unnoticeable. Like ... 5-6%?

Well, in games, yes. But the i7 really shines with applications that require all of those extra cores. I use Autodesk Inventor at home with an i5 processor, but I'm cool with it .

 

[Kibagami]

Ah yeah, like video editing. Yeah, I bet that auto-desk program eats up resources.

 

[Solidus]

It most certainly does. I also need to buy some more RAM .

 

[Kibagami]

How much you need?

 

[Solidus]

Maybe like an extra 8 GB, on top of the 8 GB that I already have . My home PC isn't my primary workstation, though. I only use it for Inventor when I need to do some extra work outside my workplace.

 

[Kibagami]

What speed and brand do you have?

 

[Solidus]

I'll have to get back to you on the brand. But, it wasn't the gnarly high-speed RAM that's on sale now, though. RAM speed is practically a marketing gimmick, from what I read, when building my PC back in April. I think if you go with whatever RAM sticks are on sale, it'll be okay.

 

[Kibagami]

I'll have to get back to you on the brand. But, it wasn't the gnarly high-speed RAM that's on sale now, though. RAM speed is practically a marketing gimmick, from what I read, when building my PC back in April. I think if you go with whatever RAM sticks are on sale, it'll be okay.

Yeah, there's a lot of debate on that. How much RAM? How many sticks? Where you place each in whatever slot. Speed? Blah.

 

[Solidus]

If I recall correctly, I think you'll want to have at least two RAM sticks, to enable dual channel memory. I think THAT will make your RAM faster. I can't remember all the technical jargon about it though.

 

[darthviper107]

RAM is really cheap, so it should be pretty easy to get a good amount and high quality for a good price. For gaming, I'd get around 8GB, 2 sticks at 4GB each, that would allow for dual-channel, just check your motherboard manual because depending on your number of sticks you have to put them in a certain position.

As far as with the i7 discussion, Sandy Bridge topped out at the i7-2600k, the Ivy Bridge topped out at the i7-3770k, and the new Haswell processors top out at the i7-4770k
Then there's the i7 Extreme line, with the Sandy Bridge-E that tops out at the i7-3970x and the Ivy Bridge-E which tops out at the i7-4960x
If you're looking at the high-end though, I would go for the i7-3930k or the i7-4930k, which are $500 cheaper than the next processor and there's hardly any speed difference.

 

[Drakul]

I'm waiting for Witcher 3 to upgrade. Should be a few months and it'll have been about 6 years since my last upgrade but I had to change GC in 2011.

 

[darthviper107]

Keep an eye on hardware releases, Nvidia should be releasing their 800-series graphics cards in 2014 and they're supposed to be a bigger improvement than the 700 series was. And there will be new Haswell CPU's along with new Haswell-E CPU's if you're interested in high-end stuff.

 

[Kibagami]

Yeah, just wait. Waiting is the best. But damn. I just bought stupid AMDs R9 series.

 

[darthviper107]

AMD isn't a bad choice these days for video cards, they'll probably have a new line of cards out around the same time, like June-August ish