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Locknuts on 28 March 2014
hinch said:
Ouch on the broken 8350.. Still, at least you didn't damage the motherboard.

And very nice build you've got there. If you have 3DMark, do post some benchmarks. Curious to see how an all AMD system performs.

On anther note planning to renew my PC as well. Just waiting on Intel for their Haswell refresh - 4790k (should be out soon), then higher end Maxwell for the graphics card. Already ordered my ram; 16gb 1866, (4x4GB) Patriot Viper 3 to go with it.

I'm waiting for high-end Maxwell too :) Should be sweet.



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Pemalite on 28 March 2014

Personally I don't like AMD CPU's, way to slow.
If you went Intel you wouldn't have bent any pins, as the CPU's don't have any, you would have saved on power consumption and got more performance for relatively the same cost. :P

But I digress, it's a stupidly potent machine, so with that... Welcome to the PC gaming master race.
May all your games be good ones!



--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--

VitroBahllee on 28 March 2014

Nice, but why spend as much on a tower as a CPU? You should have futureproofed that CPU with a couple levels higher up. Then again what do I know. I spent a lot on my CPU but after a couple years its crap anyway, while that case you got will still rock in two years.



SGDreamer on 28 March 2014

i5-4*** actually has better benchmarks than FX-6300.

But still, FX-6300 is still a great budget build :)



Top 5 Games of 2013:

1. Grand Theft Auto V - 9/10

2. The Last of Us - 9/10

3. BioShock Infinite - 9/10

4. Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 9/10

5. Injustice: Gods Among Us - 8/10

 

Top 5 Flopped Games of 2013:

1. Aliens: Colonial Marines - 4/10

2. Call of Duty: Ghosts - 7/10

3. Dead Island: Riptide - 7/10

4. Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX- 7/10

5. Dead Space 3 - 7/10

~God of War: Ascension ALMOST Made it to the list.

Pemalite on 28 March 2014
SGDreamer said:
i5-4*** actually has better benchmarks than FX-6300.

But still, FX-6300 is still a great budget build :)


Intel's Mid/Low-end processors are faster than AMD's high-end.
I would take an Intel Dual-Core over an AMD Quad-Core.

However, GPU's outstripped CPU's long long long long ago in terms of yearly performance increases, there seems to be a massive focus in reducing gaming CPU loads via Mantle, Direct X 12 and OpenGL improvements going forward.

The irony of it all though is that the 4 year old Phenom 2 x6 1090T is faster than the FX 6300 at the same clock, that's for sale today.

I have an FX 8320 in a second machine, I'm aware of how poor the FX chips really are, but with that in mind it does offer "Good enough" performance for most people and because they are heavily threaded they start to hold their own when running a heavily threaded game and say.. Xsplit in tandem, they just don't receive the same performance penalty.



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allblue on 28 March 2014

Welcome back to gaming. Admit it, there was a sense of superiority looking at that marvel of power after you built it :)

What games are you looking to play? I thoroughly recommend diablo 3 with reaper of souls, I'm addicted to it atm.



Intel core i7 930 OC @ 4.0 ghz

XFX Double dissipation Radeon HD 7950 356 bit 3gb GDDR5 OC @ 1150 MHz core + 1575 x 4 memory

Triple channel DDR 3 12gb RAM 1600 MHz

Vasto on 28 March 2014

Gratz on the build. Too bad you did not get the 8350 installed but good 2nd choice on the 6300.



lt_dan_27 on 28 March 2014

Great build. Would have gone with a 4670k or 8350 though.



Eddie_Raja on 28 March 2014
ghost_of_fazz said:
Nice build, but damn that's one bulky case... for my tastes, anyway :P

Do you have pics of your cable management? And how does that FX6300 compare against an i5? Because I'm planning to upgrade soon.


Yeah my case is less than half that size for no performance loss.  In fact the money saved by getting a cheaper case would have allowed an 8-core cpu... Just sayin.



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

SGDreamer on 28 March 2014
Pemalite said:
SGDreamer said:
i5-4*** actually has better benchmarks than FX-6300.

But still, FX-6300 is still a great budget build :)


Intel's Mid/Low-end processors are faster than AMD's high-end.
I would take an Intel Dual-Core over an AMD Quad-Core.

However, GPU's outstripped CPU's long long long long ago in terms of yearly performance increases, there seems to be a massive focus in reducing gaming CPU loads via Mantle, Direct X 12 and OpenGL improvements going forward.

The irony of it all though is that the 4 year old Phenom 2 x6 1090T is faster than the FX 6300 at the same clock, that's for sale today.

I have an FX 8320 in a second machine, I'm aware of how poor the FX chips really are, but with that in mind it does offer "Good enough" performance for most people and because they are heavily threaded they start to hold their own when running a heavily threaded game and say.. Xsplit in tandem, they just don't receive the same performance penalty.

AMD FX Processors doesn't have an integrated GPU/APU on it o.o



Top 5 Games of 2013:

1. Grand Theft Auto V - 9/10

2. The Last of Us - 9/10

3. BioShock Infinite - 9/10

4. Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 9/10

5. Injustice: Gods Among Us - 8/10

 

Top 5 Flopped Games of 2013:

1. Aliens: Colonial Marines - 4/10

2. Call of Duty: Ghosts - 7/10

3. Dead Island: Riptide - 7/10

4. Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX- 7/10

5. Dead Space 3 - 7/10

~God of War: Ascension ALMOST Made it to the list.