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Slimebeast on 29 March 2014
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Alby_da_Wolf said:
Slimebeast said:
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, it's a fairly big tower but I wanted it that way. Easier to switch part inside the machine, plus I really wanted a red case.

Cable management with this case is excellent. My camera just ran out of batteries so can't take a pic but I assure it's very convenient. You have several tunnels that go into the back area of the case where all cables are nicely stacked together. In the main space of the case there's your usual couple of cables that "obstruct" somewhat, like the power cables to the motherboard, the PCE-express cables and such. Airflow and conveniency is excellent though.

I think an i5 is much faster for desktop tasks but in gaming, even in RTS games and other CPU heavy games like Skyrim, under high quality graphics settings it's only 10-15% faster, tops.

What do you currently have for PC?

Agree with you about the case, when I switched from desktop to mid-tower I wondered why I didn't do it before.

And gratz for your new PC, what a beast! 

Right now, not being ready for building a new PC myself (I'd go for mid-low cost and low power consumption as I always do, anyway), I just ordered a new HDD and a R7 250 with passive cooling, modest, but silent and it will run circles around my current on-board Radeon HD3300. Also, for a old PC it didn't make sense a more powerful one, and it's a sensible choice to increase performances and free some precious hundreds MB currently used by the on-board GPU besides its dedicated 128MB DDR3 sideport memory, as doubling from 4GB to 8GB DDR2 ECC main RAM would be very expensive and quite pointless, old and slow tech that would cost me like the new GPU, as it's out of production, actually I'd pay that RAM more than I did with the first 4GB that I bought when my fav online shop was doing special offers on Kingston products.

PS When I'll build my next PC, I'll go for AMD too, although I won't choose top absolute performances for the CPU, but top of the low-power consumption range.


Thank you.

AMD 4 Life!

When you say you're gonna build your next PC, you're already planning one after the one you just ordered parts to (R7 250)?

What games do you play at the moment?