|
Intel lets me have a cheap 1368x768 screen. Step it up, AMD 
|
#
¿
Jan 15, 2014 17:49
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Jan 21, 2026 13:44 |
|
|
Alereon posted:High-end AMD APUs can make sense as they offer compellingly better graphics performance than Intel's CPUs, which means they are better gaming processors (for systems without dedicated graphics cards). It's AMD's CPUs (FX-series) that are retarded buys because they have nothing to balance out their much worse CPU performance. Anyone actually trying to game will have a card, however.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 30, 2014 03:12
|
|
|
So what in particular made deep pipelines so bad? Do they intrinsically have worse per-clock performance? Is it a simple problem of branch predictors not being good enough?
|
|
#
¿
May 25, 2014 07:14
|
|
|
Agreed posted:Not even close. I'd actually say it's an ultra-complex problem, and any attempt at explaining it outside the confines of academia and research is gonna be high on snark and low on detail. No offense intended to regulars. Please, make an attempt to do so anyway.
|
|
#
¿
May 25, 2014 17:50
|
|
|
Alereon posted:I would suggest that Bay Trail is too slow for this application, several goons have tried it so far with disappointing results. Consider a Haswell-based Pentium or Celeron CPU, if an i3 is out of your pricerange. In my experience, bay trail is more than capable enough to handle media applications. As for AMD, I believe the general consensus is that there's little reason to ever go with them over Intel except for skeleton builds and it doesn't seem like this will change in the near future.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 28, 2014 23:55
|
|
|
Just turn the Intel thread into CPU Discussion and this one into GPU Discussion. We're halfway there already! But please continue, this discussion is neat
|
|
#
¿
Aug 28, 2014 04:41
|
|
|
So this popped up on my news feed... Am I correct in assuming this doesn't bode well for AMD?
|
|
#
¿
Oct 9, 2014 06:18
|
|
|
The Lord Bude posted:Dragon age inquisition is another. These are devs deliberately blocking games from running on dual cores for no apparent reason. Judging by the publishers/developers of the two named games, I can think of a reason.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 1, 2015 03:36
|
|
|
Twerk from Home posted:Things change in a decade, 10 years ago AMD was the best choice for desktop CPUs by a mile with Athlon 64s competing against Pentium 4s. Ten years ago we were about to get the Pentium D. Nine years ago we got the C2D.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 15, 2015 17:07
|
|
|
Twerk from Home posted:You know, the flip side of this is that I can keep riding the 2500K that I got for $200 in 2011 for the forseeable future. My 2600k is still absurdly powerful. What a world.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 16, 2015 15:06
|
|
|
Shaocaholica posted:Why bother talking audiophiles out of anything? Its their money. As long as they aren't hurting themselves or others who cares? Belief in pseudosciences and the disbelief in rational thought and logic that tends to accompany said belief is a form of anti-intellectualism. I would argue that constitues harming others, as it harms society
|
|
#
¿
Jun 16, 2015 23:44
|
|
|
mayodreams posted:Someone made a stunning revelation during last night's PC Gaming Show. Carlos!
|
|
#
¿
Jun 17, 2015 14:29
|
|
|
LeftistMuslimObama posted:I don't know that this is even true anymore. I'd consider myself an enthusiast (I built my first PC when I was 10) and have always built my own PCs. Looking back, I have never replaced a discrete component in my computer other than a failed disk or optical drive. If I've got enough money to upgrade the GPU, I can save for 4 extra months and have enough money to just replace the whole thing, so that's what I do. It's just less headache than shuffling parts around and figuring out what I want to drag across builds and such. Instead, my old PC then becomes a media center somewhere in my house or a hand-me-down for one of my brothers who needs a better Minecraft rig or whatever. Definitely not a thing these days. The only real components that have gotten performance improvements are the GPUs. My rig is from 2012 and there's no other part to upgrade; I replaced my dual GPU solution with a single card, put in a ssd. That's ask I could really do.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 23, 2015 19:57
|
|
|
My two 6870s payed for themselves and the rest of the computer
|
|
#
¿
Jul 25, 2015 06:00
|
|
|
Fabulousity posted:Did you roast them over milk crates or cardboard boxes with zip tie supports for that true smokey return on investment flavor? Living in a dorm room! During the winter. Gotta be efficient yo.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 25, 2015 06:54
|
|
|
Intel has an x86 monopoly, not a cpu monopoly.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 17, 2015 18:43
|
|
|
FaustianQ posted:Heterogeneous chips as in HSA? I've only ever seen it refereed when talking about a CPU+GPU combination since CPUs and GPU operate very differently and thus it's actually heterogeneous, otherwise you might as well refer to the C2Qs as the first heterogeneous chips. C2qs had the same processor cores....
|
|
#
¿
Jan 23, 2016 17:04
|
|
|
HMS Boromir posted:what if you like 
|
|
#
¿
Mar 29, 2016 00:07
|
|
|
SwissArmyDruid posted:At this point, I'm not entirely convinced that some idiot senator out there is going to try to pass legislation to insert mandatory arbitration clauses with third-party arbitration firms into the U.S. Constitution. Maybe that will be dear Senator Feinstein's last achievement in office before we welcome her home to California at the end of her last term as senator for the last time... with a loving riot. Feinstein has a history of being a horrible law maker. Do something, you Californians!
|
|
#
¿
Apr 30, 2016 15:13
|
|
|
SwissArmyDruid posted:She's 84, will not be seeking re-election, and is gone at the end of this term. This is the best news I've heard all day.
|
|
#
¿
May 1, 2016 02:44
|
|
|
So who here is actually going to purchase Zen, if we assume it achieves near-Intel performance for the proportionate price?
|
|
#
¿
May 23, 2016 20:11
|
|
|
Ever notice how every picture of Zen is blurry? 
|
|
#
¿
May 27, 2016 00:16
|
|
|
I still haven't noticed this issue in my 840 
|
|
#
¿
May 29, 2016 01:26
|
|
|
Yeah, I still got an 850 as well, but honestly I don't notice a difference day-to-day with any of my 3 SSDs.
|
|
#
¿
May 29, 2016 03:14
|
|
|
PBCrunch posted:So, let's assume that desktop Zen is 8C/16T. Let's further assume that the cheaper chips are made by disabling cores and/or per-core threading. I think AMD could get a ton of support in the enthusiast community by having cores that can be re-enabled through fancy motherboard BIOS, like the old Phenoms. This strategy could also help mitigate the fact that AMD will have a process disadvantage relative to Intel (to the enthusiast crowd); Intel wins on overclocking frequency potential, but AMD counters by offering chips that ~might~ have one or more unlockable cores. I remember that! Enabling cores was definitely one of the more interesting capabilities of the chip. More than a handful of enthusiasts probably bought them intending to unlock, though I don't know how much money AMD would make from another round of that.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 10, 2016 22:42
|
|
|
Water cooling is still technically air cooling, so you should just get an H100
|
|
#
¿
Jun 14, 2016 20:12
|
|
|
HalloKitty posted:To be fair, Geforce 4 MX was poo poo at almost anything; (it was based on Geforce 2 with a new name, it wasn't related to the Geforce 4, and was worse than a Geforce 3) and every card with "SE" after is cut down even further. Yep. They were pretty crap. I should know; I had one in my crappy eMachines.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 15, 2016 17:56
|
|
|
My e6750 seems to handle FreeNAS fine. My T100 (running some variant of the good Atoms) can do fine, as long as I'm not opening more than one intensive page and not much in the background. For ease of use, though, you definitely "need" something better than those old chips.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 16, 2016 05:54
|
|
|
Chrome with several tabs open tends to bring my cpu usage up towards 25% on a 2600k
|
|
#
¿
Aug 17, 2016 20:33
|
|
|
Kyonko is right, they're completely native games, hence why they can run at all. If you want to talk emulation, the original ds does like 3fps in ps1 games. New 3ds does about 30. PSP could get 20-30 fps in some n64 games including star fox.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 25, 2016 01:40
|
|
|
Anime Schoolgirl posted:not even that, it's 2gb, of which 1gb is used by the OS 
|
|
#
¿
Sep 10, 2016 16:55
|
|
|
Didn't the 360 have 512mb combined ram, and ps3 have 256mb system and 256mb vram?
|
|
#
¿
Sep 10, 2016 21:28
|
|
|
PS4 launched with a slight profit.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 14, 2016 20:46
|
|
|
Truga posted:Look at this joker who doesn't even water cool. Water cooling is for cool guys. It's better down where it's wetter.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 19, 2016 15:41
|
|
|
I still don't know what people mean about noise, my pump is dead silent
|
|
#
¿
Sep 19, 2016 15:49
|
|
|
Neither my Corsair H50 nor my DDC pump made any noticeable noise... A GPU and/or case fan make more noise than a pump, in my experience.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 20, 2016 08:17
|
|
|
That thing is absolutely absurd. I love it and would never want to own it.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2016 01:57
|
|
|
Was WCCFtech the site that gets everything right because they publish literally every rumor, and thus have at least one correct? http://wccftech.com/new-amd-zen-blender-benchmarks/
|
|
#
¿
Nov 3, 2016 05:33
|
|
|
Given that we're basically going to see Intel stuck on the same architecture for two years, too...
|
|
#
¿
Nov 3, 2016 19:28
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Jan 21, 2026 13:44 |
|
|
Most of my bootup time in the old days of "stick in a million external drives" was getting the USB-attached HDDs to spool up.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 21, 2016 22:35
|
|