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Slimebeast on 07 March 2014
BenVTrigger said:
Why on Earth would you ever get an AMD CPU over an Intel? That makes no sense.

besides that everything looks solid.

Yes it does if you're and AMD fan like me.



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Slimebeast on 07 March 2014
vivster said:
Slimebeast said:

Oh, budget is between 1200 Euros and 1500 Euros.

Corsair is the thing here in Sweden. They dont sell much BeQuiets.

120GB SSD to 250GB SSD sounds like it will be anotha 100 Euros? WOnt I just be fine with 120gb SSD (Windows 8, Skyrim, Oblivon, The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition) + 1.5TB HDD?

What do you mean CPU heatsink? I forgot what that is. If I buy a CPU it has a fan included and those metal rails it stands on, then I put that cooling paste between the metal and the CPU. It works like that with AMD FX-8350 too, doesn it?

You don't want to cool your CPU with the stock cooler do you? Do you have a high tolerance for noise? If not then you need a proper heatsink, especially for an AMD CPU which just gets crazy warm. The Thermalright HR-02 Macho is really a staple in most gaming PCs. It's very cool and quiet for its price.

Have you decided yet on which 290 you will get? When it comes to noise, cooling and OC I prefer the Asus DirectCU the most. But you can't really go wrong with MSI Twin Frozr, Gigabyte Windforce or Sapphire  Tri-X.

 

So are those Thermalright HROS2s heatsinks commonly available? How much cost and does it mean I will b able to overclock the processur?

I have a high noice tolerance because that's what I'm used to and on top of that I use head-phones. So I will only get a cool/silent solution if it benefits the grafix performance.

I have decided to go for a R9 290 Gigabyte Windforce.



Kasz216 on 07 March 2014
vivster said:
A few things.

This looks like a configurator. Don't do it. Buy cheap and build it on your own or let someone help you with that. It's overpriced shit.

Unless you are the biggest AMD fanboy go with Intel for CPU. It looks like you have a big enough budget. Any 4 core Intel CPU will smoke the biggest 8 core AMDs when it comes to gaming.

PSU is more than enough even for CF. I prefer BeQuiet though.

SSD is too small. Not only are the 120GB slower than the 250GB models but you will run out of space soon. Get at least 250GB and partition like 60-100GB for the system and the rest for the games.

If you tell me your full budget I can recommend a selection of parts.


Note that he's in Sweeden.  Sweeden's PC market is overpriced as shit.



Slimebeast on 07 March 2014
Kasz216 said:
vivster said:
A few things.

This looks like a configurator. Don't do it. Buy cheap and build it on your own or let someone help you with that. It's overpriced shit.

Unless you are the biggest AMD fanboy go with Intel for CPU. It looks like you have a big enough budget. Any 4 core Intel CPU will smoke the biggest 8 core AMDs when it comes to gaming.

PSU is more than enough even for CF. I prefer BeQuiet though.

SSD is too small. Not only are the 120GB slower than the 250GB models but you will run out of space soon. Get at least 250GB and partition like 60-100GB for the system and the rest for the games.

If you tell me your full budget I can recommend a selection of parts.


Note that he's in Sweeden.  Sweeden's PC market is overpriced as shit.

Really? I think all PC components are dirty cheap here. To me they look cheap.



bucky1965 on 07 March 2014

Consider the FX 9xxx series cpu. The one your listing is already up there in age.



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Slimebeast on 08 March 2014
bucky1965 said:
Consider the FX 9xxx series cpu. The one your listing is already up there in age.

Really? I fought I read somewhere that the 9xxx series was aimed at a special market, OEM comps or something and the performance increase wasn't very big.



hinch on 08 March 2014
Slimebeast said:
bucky1965 said:
Consider the FX 9xxx series cpu. The one your listing is already up there in age.

Really? I fought I read somewhere that the 9xxx series was aimed at a special market, OEM comps or something and the performance increase wasn't very big.

Really not worth the premium tbh. Its the same CPU as the FX8350, but higher binned. Better off with the standard FX8350 or going with Intel - starting from the i5 4670K range up (I would go with the latter, personally) :P



Slimebeast on 08 March 2014
hinch said:
Slimebeast said:
bucky1965 said:
Consider the FX 9xxx series cpu. The one your listing is already up there in age.

Really? I fought I read somewhere that the 9xxx series was aimed at a special market, OEM comps or something and the performance increase wasn't very big.

Really not worth the premium tbh. Its the same CPU as the FX8350, but higher binned. Better off with the standard FX8350 or going with Intel - starting from the i5 4670K range up (I would go with the latter, personally) :P

So buttem line is that for an AMD fan like me, the FX-8350 is the way to go? I would think it's a fast processur since it costs more than $150 after all. All my CPUs in the past were around $100 and they did fine.



hinch on 08 March 2014
Slimebeast said:
hinch said:
Slimebeast said:
bucky1965 said:
Consider the FX 9xxx series cpu. The one your listing is already up there in age.

Really? I fought I read somewhere that the 9xxx series was aimed at a special market, OEM comps or something and the performance increase wasn't very big.

Really not worth the premium tbh. Its the same CPU as the FX8350, but higher binned. Better off with the standard FX8350 or going with Intel - starting from the i5 4670K range up (I would go with the latter, personally) :P

So buttem line is that for an AMD fan like me, the FX-8350 is the way to go? I would think it's a fast processur since it costs more than $150 after all. All my CPUs in the past were around $100 and they did fine.

Intel CPU have much higher IPC and generally perform better overall across the board (have a look at benchmarks). Especially at games. AMD has been lagging a lot behind Intel in that regard, but of course its entirely upto you. With Mantle making some waves, DX12 on the horizon either one should be good to go :)



Slimebeast on 08 March 2014
hinch said:
Slimebeast said:
hinch said:
Slimebeast said:
bucky1965 said:
Consider the FX 9xxx series cpu. The one your listing is already up there in age.

Really? I fought I read somewhere that the 9xxx series was aimed at a special market, OEM comps or something and the performance increase wasn't very big.

Really not worth the premium tbh. Its the same CPU as the FX8350, but higher binned. Better off with the standard FX8350 or going with Intel - starting from the i5 4670K range up (I would go with the latter, personally) :P

So buttem line is that for an AMD fan like me, the FX-8350 is the way to go? I would think it's a fast processur since it costs more than $150 after all. All my CPUs in the past were around $100 and they did fine.

Intel CPU have much higher IPC and generally perform better overall across the board (have a look at benchmarks), and especially at games. AMD has been lagging a lot behind Intel in that regard, but of course its entirely upto you. With Mantle making some waves, DX12 on the horizon either one should be good to go :)

Yeah I know u probably get a 20-30% better IPC from Intel right (even on a Dollar to Dollar basis)?

I don't care though. I'm only AMD guy. As long as they are able to make processurs that are able to run all the modern games I'm happy (but I'm worried they won't be able to make top-of-the-line gaming CPUs for much longer).