Unless you over tighten the screws and strip the plastic I don't think they'll ever just wear out. And even if that does happen you could always use those new anti-vibration rubber mount things instead of screws. I guess the answer would be as many times as you want.
"There is no point in this cuz the 3570k is better then the 8350 by far only thing that is good with amd is there radeon cards thats it the best cpu for gameing out right now is the 3570k say what u want idc i would go with a 3570k or any amd cpu"
This above is a prime example of a "fanboy" comment. But then you go on to say Keep the fanboy word off the forum? I'm confused.
I personally think that AMD destroyed the reputation of the Bulldozer line before it was even released. They set everyone's expectations so high will all the hype that there was no way the CPU's could live up to it. If they would have just released the chips and simply stated that they were comparable to a traditional quad core with hyper threading they would have been fine. But they didn't, they decided to push the whole "8 full cores, twice the performance of a traditional quad core" line and the result was unrealistic expectations. I mean, can you honestly expect a product to provide twice the performance of a similarly priced product from a competitor. When it didn't live up to the massive expectations reviewers put it down, and Intel fanboys loved that. The result it the "faildozer" reputation the bulldozer line has today. These CPU's are still more that adequate for most users, and they're definitely competitive price wise. I think the bulldozer "failure" was more of a marketing one than an engineering one.
Unfortunately, the future for AMD is a bit uncertain right now. On one hand, as programs start to use more threads AMD's modular architecture might become more useful than it is now. If that happens AMD will be ready, and Intel will have some catching up to do. However Intel has a much larger market share, so programmers might be inclined to keep the number of threads their programs us down, for compatibility reasons.
I would actually like to see AMD make a more traditional line of processors to compete with Intel in the present gaming market. Imagine a 32nm (or 22nm) Phenom quad core clocked at 5+ GHz. That would probably be one of the only things that could save AMD's reputation with the enthusiast crowd. Once again, how it's marketed matters. It wouldn't have to be hyped as an "Haswell killer" it would just have to be competitive with Intel's top end again.
Just my 2 cents
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I finally managed to get my 7870 working. I've had the 12.11 drivers installed since they came out, so when I tried the 12.8 drivers earlier I failed to clean the registry after uninstalling 12.11. Anyways after doing that, running ATI Man (mentioned in the link) and installing 12.8 I was able to get the GPU to run at between 68% and 95% After setting the SMP to run on 7 out of 8 cores on my 8120 I was able to get 89%-99% GPU usage without slowing down my SMP too much. Thanks for the help guys, this is the first time I've been able to try GPU folding :)
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