Richyo

install steam onto new PC
copy stream folder from old PC to new PC*
profit
 
*can either use home network or connect old hdd to new PC.

Yeap my Sony products have been unreliable too! even if the issues did occur within warranty period.
My 46" XBR tv had panel issues that were very common - Got the panel replaced just before warranty expired, panel broke again within a year.
Lots of Xperia Z2 QC issues around in other forums!

meh
every sony product i had broke 
Sony z2 screen came loose
some Sony speaker broke halfway through a song
Sony ultra book fan broke 
either sony's bad
or my lucks terrible 

That's a huge exaggeration. The game plays just fine with maybe the occasional server crash.

I'm really getting tired of seeing these everywhere. I don't know what your game experience is like but the game doesn't even crash anymore. If you look on the fix tracker (http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955065670203355766/) you can see that all of the issues on the list almost have a fix already live for them. Please stop making the game seem worse than it is. It is completely playable. I'm not saying at all that it doesn't have it's problems or that it was ok for dice/EA to release it like that, but that at this current time the game is 100% playable and enjoyable and does not deserve all of the FIX THE GAME comments anymore.

"Such Wow, much Download, So pirate." - Youbetternot, 2013

Introduction:

APUs whether we like it or not are the future. All current Intel CPUs are technically APUs due to the presence of Intel HD graphics while AMD's 2014 road-map shows no further plans on the AM3+ platform with the focus being on FM2+ with Kaveri and their lower power mobile processors. On top of that integrated graphics performance has been increasing rapidly over the past couple of years with Intel Iris Pro providing a 50% performance boost over the previous generation while Kaveri will be boasting 856 GFLOPS which is roughly equivalent to a HD7750. With integrated graphics becoming a viable route for budget gaming rigs I've decided to do a comparison to find out the ideal RAM for an APU. We'll be doing this by using a 2x4 GB kit of G.Skill Ripjaws X with the speed set to different speeds to simulate the results you should expect. 

Note: these results may change going forward with newer architectures and the arrival of DDR4 in the future. 
 
Test Setup:
For the test setup I'll be using an A8-5600K which I have slightly overclocked similar to what Linus does, but my overclocks are extremely conservative so the vast majority of users should be able to obtain.
The CPU has been overclocked from 3.6 GHz to 4 GHz and the iGPU from 760 MHz to 800 MHz. The setup will also be using 768 Mb for the integrated graphics, I was originally intending to test the difference between 512 Mb, 768 Mb and 1 Gb but unfortunately my current BIOS version doesn't allow the user to set the amount of RAM dedicated to the iGPU.

We will be running three benchmarks. First will be 3D Mark Vantage run on the Performance Preset. The second will be Bioshock: Infinite which will be on 1280x720 (720p) on Medium graphics settings using the inbuilt benchmark. The final benchmark will be DotA 2 which will run at 1920x1080 (1080p) with the following advance settings with replay of the match Alliance vs Orange during the DotA 2 International 2013 being the test we run. 
 
Each of these benchmarks will be run with the following speeds: 1333 MHz, 1600 MHz, 1866 MHz and 2133 MHz. We'll be looking at the effects of clock speeds, timings and than a combination of both before reaching a conclusion. 

 
Results:
 
Clock Speed:
The first set of results we hold the RAM timings constant at 11-11-11-30 to see the impact of a flat speed increase without having to take into account the effects of timings. 

Note that DotA 2 would constantly crash at 2133 MHz while the system ran perfectly stable on the Vantage and Bioshock: Infinite. It should be noted that the A8-5600K is only rated up to 1866 MHz for memory, yet the motherboard I was using was able to go up to 2133 MHz on an OC, while BIOS options do allow us to go higher considering that one of the benches was crashing at 2133 MHz there was no point in going to 2400 MHz. Looking at the results there is a clear pattern showing the impact of higher the clock speed which does lead to better performance.
 
Timings:
Here we'll be holding the clock speed at a constant 1600 MHz and running the benchmarks at CL8, CL9, CL10 and CL11 to see any possible effects timings might have.

The results are interesting with there being little difference between the pairs CL8 and CL9 and CL10 and CL11, however there is a noticeable jump going from CL9 to CL10 which suggests that RAM timings do play a part in the performance and it isn't just about memory speeds with the sweet spot being below CL10.
 
Final Results:
In the final run we'll be looking at representative timings and speeds of RAM kits on the market, so a comparison between CL7 1333 MHz, CL8 1600 MHz, CL9 1866 MHz and CL11 2133 MHz. 

 
Conclusion:
Looking at the results we can conclude that the largest benefit to be gained from an iGPU would be from getting faster speeds. Given that in the current market of 8GB kits where there is virtually no difference in price going from 1333 MHz to 2133 MHz (Australian Pricing) it would seem wise to get the fastest RAM possible, however due to the stability issues that I faced with running a 2133 MHz kit which could be down to the RAM, the motherboard or the APU not supporting the speed properly. As a result I would recommend getting a 1866 MHz kit due to potential problems if you opt for a 2133 MHz. However given that majority of these kits can be overclocked and timings changed to reflect the other RAM kits, it doesn't matter too much which speed you opt for as long as the kit is high quality if you are willing to play around with timings and speeds in the BIOS. 
 
Video Overview: *Coming Soon*
 
Also any feedback is most welcome. If you want me to bench some other games suggest that below and I can take a look into it. 

Well guys I've been doing my own research & analysis of the performance of AMD & Intel CPUs for sometime, I did not do tests personally however I tried to salvage as much knowledge as possible to try and answer a question that has been on my mind, which is how far ahead Intel really is? and that question led me to some very interesting realizations.

The discussion will be highly technical and might seem boring to some, I'll start off with the basics & end with the answer to the original question plus several others.

Ok let's begin, first off our discussion will be surrounding AMD's modular Bulldozer/Piledriver architecture & Intel's core series from Westmere to Sandy/Ivy & Haswell.

The Architectures : AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver

The building block of AMD's modular architecture is not an x86 core, it's an x86 module, this module contains everything that a core contains but with a number of components doubled, these components include the integer scheduler, its datapath, 16KB of L1 DCache & it's own load/store unit.
The doubling of these components is what gives the AMD module essentially two cores/threads.
The integer cores share the early pipeline stages (e.g. L1i, fetch, decode), the floating point unit, and the L2 cache with the rest of the module.


 
How this affects performance
Depending on the workload the quad module eight core AMD processors can either perform as eight processing units or as four and this depends entirely on the affinity of the workload to integer or floating point calculations.
If integer calculations are needed there are eight integer pipelines that can be used, however if floating point calculations are needed there are only four.

You also need to consider that AMD CPUs themselves might not support PCIe 3 speeds even though motherboards have it.

If this is true, I'll be shifting to AMD faster then you can say Bulldozer

Hmm, it looks like its less of a joke then it seemed. 
 
Good job AMD. 

My buddy gave me my first gaming pc 3 years ago. I wasnt nearly as much into pcs as I am now but i remember it had a Calibre 9800GT and a e7600 :D When i got it me and my friends were completely shitting our pants over it. Holy Shit! It can run Crysis!

i had 9800GTX + running low settings with bf3 at roughly 20-30fps
2x8800GT SLi in low settings in bf3 at 20-50fps with lots micro stuttering (only got my 7970 which replaced the 8800GT in march so yea..... :D )

If all the past cards had more vram they would probably be fairly decent (me not looking at cuda cores or texture fill rates for this post)

i had 9800GTX + running low settings with bf3 at roughly 20-30fps
2x8800GT SLi in low settings in bf3 at 20-50fps with lots micro stuttering (only got my 7970 which replaced the 8800GT in march so yea..... :D )

If all the past cards had more vram they would probably be fairly decent (me not looking at cuda cores or texture fill rates for this post)

That sucks and sorry to hear dude - i would rather some of my other components to get fried then losing data!

Youtube comments are the worst. They're infuriating, but if you express your anger by commenting you just become one of them really.

2007 called
they want their thread back

Now I don't need a third party program for including my desktop wallpaper into the Metro UI, but now I'll need a third party program for removing the start button lol

Would you guys be interested in me posting what my uni lab offers? From the top of my head they have Cisco 2950 switches and routers(not sure of the model) for students to play with.