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^ lol. obviously your views are pretty rigid.

there is a thing called load line caliberation. that will increase/deccrease you volts.

also on my motherboard, which has a digital VRM, it continuously monitors the stability and voltage of my cpu at a couple of thousand times a second. It will increase the volts if it finds necessary, until and unless i turn LLC off.

same goes for the Digi VRM having asus mobos, the 970 evo etc.
infact for some reason (probably due to poor designing by asus), the VRM rated voltage was always .2V more ,during load testing, than what i applied.

Load line calibration depends on what voltage you have set. And being Digi VRM or conventional VRM, every VRM monitors CPU activity and sets voltage accordingly. My motherboard does that too. I set 1.375 LLC on and C&Q off. It will be 1.368 idle and 1.4V extreme load and 1.380 moderate load(Songs, files, browser and all). So you see it is near the one I set in BIOS.

But if you set 1.7V through the BIOS, even LLC will never allow 2.172V to be driven to the CPU. It is hardware limitation(VRM) and cannot be controlled by software(BIOS).
 

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Even with the shittiest LLC on the world no board/chip will allow 1.7V on air on an FX.
The screenie you posted have been proved fake a long time ago :p
 
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Even with the shittiest LLC on the world no board/chip will allow 1.7V on air on an FX.
The screenie you posted have been proved fake a long time ago :p

i may try that soon as im planning on upgrading anyway..... my board has a 4+1 phase design, not heat sinked, LLC doesn't work in the slightest and ive had 1.6 through it.
 

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Even with the shittiest LLC on the world no board/chip will allow 1.7V on air on an FX.
The screenie you posted have been proved fake a long time ago :p

well, i know that, but its still fun :p
 
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-For the same price, Intel has better single-threaded performance, and AMD has better multi-threaded performance.
-For the same price, AMD usually has better MB features. Although Haswell seems to be evening the playing field.
-At 1080p, on most games (e.g not RTS games), as long as your CPU isn't older than 3 years and "teh suxorz", your GPU won't get CPU bottlenecked.
-For general usage, as long as your CPU isn't older than 3 years and "teh suxorz", you won't notice a difference.
-If your having slow start-up/load times and are using a mechanical drive for your OS, don't get a i7 3970x. That's stupid. Get an SSD instead.
-If you can't max out 1080p games on your Trinity APU, don't get an i7 3970x. That's stupid. Get a proper video card instead.

Basically, it all comes down to how much your willing to pay, and your other components.

This post is brought to you by boredom.
 

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Do not do both
Do this instead.
i7-3770K
Z77A-GD65
IF U WANT choose one in this two.
i5
Reason: AMD for gaming? GO I3 INSTEAD!

i3 isnt worth it, there was a comparison of the 5800 to the i3. i3, Pentium, Celeron- not worth it.

What?

You went from a modern AMD cores, to a 2+ generations older (SB, IB) system. You forego all the advanced instruction sets, better DDR3 handling, and other benefits. You do all of this, and then wonder why CPU based testing gives you better results on Intel but whole system testing gives you better results on AMD. I don't believe this was a well designed comparison.




Also, nobody's come out to say this. 8 AMD cores =/= 8 Intel cores in this generation. AMD shares some resources among core pairs, so they have a higher number of cores without having performance equal to that core count.

In the real world, AMD offers an 8 core chip for the price of a 4 core Intel. You lose some of the single threaded performance, but single threaded programming has its days numbered. Intel chips are more power efficient, but AMD is significantly better on the initial pricing.

I don't see appreciable differences between an APU and a 3930k in most usage scenarios. That said, I'm encoding video on my 3930 and surfing on my APU. Flawed initial assumptions generally make "testing" results flawed....

i3 are pathetic. so is hyper threading. good luck finding anything useful to do with an i3 other than running synthetic benchmarks. two cores in 2013. hahah

I didn´t get ueutyi´s message either - i3 is in my eyes not an option - maybe for a HTPC.....

he is an intel fanboi obviously :p

Yeah he is a blind fool honestly, and the HTPC Bit? An APU would do just fine for less.

Core i5 or greater recommended. Stars, Llano, Trinity, Vishera recommended.

(gotta love noobs)
 
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What?

You went from a modern AMD cores, to a 2+ generations older (SB, IB) system. You forego all the advanced instruction sets, better DDR3 handling, and other benefits. You do all of this, and then wonder why CPU based testing gives you better results on Intel but whole system testing gives you better results on AMD. I don't believe this was a well designed comparison.




Also, nobody's come out to say this. 8 AMD cores =/= 8 Intel cores in this generation. AMD shares some resources among core pairs, so they have a higher number of cores without having performance equal to that core count.

In the real world, AMD offers an 8 core chip for the price of a 4 core Intel. You lose some of the single threaded performance, but single threaded programming has its days numbered. Intel chips are more power efficient, but AMD is significantly better on the initial pricing.

I don't see appreciable differences between an APU and a 3930k in most usage scenarios. That said, I'm encoding video on my 3930 and surfing on my APU. Flawed initial assumptions generally make "testing" results flawed....

The one thing I didn't mention however... the intel rig is significantly faster in real world gaming :p

However, where my system lacks the most is disk performance, so I thrive on cache, hence moving back to X58 for 48GB of RAM :p

Not sure what you mean better DDR3 handling? X58 offers significantly more bandwidth and better latencies than the AM3+ platform, but yes, I have my uncore clocked hard to make it even better.

I have been recommending the 8350 to friends recently for their own builds who were looking to buy a 3770K otherwise (to fit an SSD into budget), and they've been more then happy with the performance.
 
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yea, fanboys are irritating, I agree.

Intel is always better for performance. More stable, runs cooler, etc. It is worth it, trust me.
Personally I got the 3770K.
 
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yea, fanboys are irritating, I agree.

Intel is always better for performance. More stable, runs cooler, etc. It is worth it, trust me.
Personally I got the 3770K.

This post was looking so promising until I read "More stable" >:
 

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ACTUALLY the FX 8150's gaming performance is worth than i3 even some pentiums in most of the games, u can just get a 3570k or E3-1230V2(Xeon)
 
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In gaming, the FX 8150 catches well enough with the i7s in most games. And overall considering the budget to be constant, AMD FX 8series + a beasty GPU > Intel Core i7 + a decent GPU.
If the GPU is same too, differences are insignificant.
 
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you can get a fairly decent motherboard and 8150/8350 for the price or near of an i7. and I did notice intel boards cost a bit more in general, so the savings could get a beastttyyyy gpu.

I couldn't justify spending £270ish on a cpu :nutkick:
 
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I would love the single core performance but I'm not prepared to pay the high price for the extra features that are standard on amd like vt-d, 6x sata III, overclocking and backwards compatability.

With intel your never really sure what your CPU has unless you test it. All amd chips have the same features top to bottom.
 
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