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    Syte got a reaction from Sithhy in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    I suppose you're right.
    I would like to point out that the Pentium-K can actually hold 60 FPS with a GTX 960 at medium-high settings without stutter. TXAA causes stutter and any other anomalies can be removed by simply limiting FPS to 60.
    The only downside is streaming the game or doing any other CPU-heavy task would indeed impact performance heavily.
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    Syte got a reaction from Sithhy in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    How many have you had a chance to use with real-world tests and real-world machine with a wide variance of hardware first-hand? I think I'm up to over 100, I've done 15 these last 2 weeks alone.

    You get two unlocked Haswell Cores on a $70 chip, combined with the fact you can overclock to 4.4GHz easily on stock on an H81 or B85 Chipset, leaving you with $130 spent and two 4.4GHz Haswell Cores. Games that benefit from high IPC (World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Dota2, Counter Strike, etc.) will perform much better with a 4.4GHz Pentium than a 3.6GHz i5 and saves you $200.
    What would you rather? A GTX 750 with an i5 or a GTX 960 and some change with a Pentium? The CPU has a valid place on the market; large sale numbers (at least on my end) and success only goes to prove that.
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    Syte got a reaction from Yali in Best free Anti Virus Program?   
    It depends on what level of protection you're comfortable with and your security needs. For a normal user that's not doing any major business online generally a basic AV like Avast is enough +AdwCleaner/Malwarebytes every once and a while for good measure.
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    Syte got a reaction from TheSLSAMG in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    How many have you had a chance to use with real-world tests and real-world machine with a wide variance of hardware first-hand? I think I'm up to over 100, I've done 15 these last 2 weeks alone.

    You get two unlocked Haswell Cores on a $70 chip, combined with the fact you can overclock to 4.4GHz easily on stock on an H81 or B85 Chipset, leaving you with $130 spent and two 4.4GHz Haswell Cores. Games that benefit from high IPC (World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Dota2, Counter Strike, etc.) will perform much better with a 4.4GHz Pentium than a 3.6GHz i5 and saves you $200.
    What would you rather? A GTX 750 with an i5 or a GTX 960 and some change with a Pentium? The CPU has a valid place on the market; large sale numbers (at least on my end) and success only goes to prove that.
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    Syte got a reaction from ShadowCaptain in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    Disproven.
    Every game I've ever tested works except for Far Cry 4 (unless you pirate it, then it works fine), the worst situation is two games give you a popup saying "Warning, blah blah blah dual core CPU" you press yes and then enjoy 60+FPS on High settings with your budget GPU (GTX 750, 760, 960, R9 270, etc).
    Like I keep saying. I have first hand experience here and evidence to back that up. This chip is astounding compared to the competition as it delivers the best IPC of any CPU under $280 (The 4690k is the ONLY close CPU that beats it's IPC at over $200 more) and almost every game every will gain more performance through high IPC vs 4/6/8 weak useless cores (Vishera, Kaveeri, etc.)
    Yes. If the chip had Hyperthreading it would be better. But an unlocked i3 would literally kill the i5 market and Intel isn't a company that makes a habit of killing their own market.
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    Syte got a reaction from Goldensapling in GT430 going to bottleneck?   
    If you need to get an Nvidia GPU get the GTX 750 Ti. Linus did a video on getting cheap garbage GPUs and concluded, as the rest of us already had, that they don't serve a purpose on the market. Sure it's considerably more money but the GTX 750 ti will actually allow you to play every game you own. The GT430 is what we in the putah' biz refer to as "garbage"
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    Syte reacted to Ganz in Hello about water cooling need help   
    The H100i is what is known as an All in One or AIO cooler.  You get the benefits of liquid cooling without the hassle of setting up a custom loop.  For the H100i your set up will consist of mounting the fans to the radiator, mounting the radiator to your case, and mounting the pump/block to the cpu(same as you would install any other cpu cooler)  The instruction manual is helpful.  The liquid comes pre-filled into the loop thus it being all in one.
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    Syte reacted to zappian in Am3+ motherbord that supports sli   
    What çards do you want to SLI?
    I mean even if you SLI two gtx 760 you will be hard pressed to find and AMD çpu that çan drive them both to 100%
    The only çase in whiçh is worth it is at 4k and other high res where the çpu doesnt matter muçh .
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    Syte got a reaction from ubw in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    I suppose you're right.
    I would like to point out that the Pentium-K can actually hold 60 FPS with a GTX 960 at medium-high settings without stutter. TXAA causes stutter and any other anomalies can be removed by simply limiting FPS to 60.
    The only downside is streaming the game or doing any other CPU-heavy task would indeed impact performance heavily.
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    Syte got a reaction from Ketcchup in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    How many have you had a chance to use with real-world tests and real-world machine with a wide variance of hardware first-hand? I think I'm up to over 100, I've done 15 these last 2 weeks alone.

    You get two unlocked Haswell Cores on a $70 chip, combined with the fact you can overclock to 4.4GHz easily on stock on an H81 or B85 Chipset, leaving you with $130 spent and two 4.4GHz Haswell Cores. Games that benefit from high IPC (World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Dota2, Counter Strike, etc.) will perform much better with a 4.4GHz Pentium than a 3.6GHz i5 and saves you $200.
    What would you rather? A GTX 750 with an i5 or a GTX 960 and some change with a Pentium? The CPU has a valid place on the market; large sale numbers (at least on my end) and success only goes to prove that.
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    Syte got a reaction from Toxiic in Graphics Card issues Vol. 2   
    When you say "crashes all the time..." do you mean it tells you the display driver has stopped responding?
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    Syte got a reaction from Tedster in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    I suppose you're right.
    I would like to point out that the Pentium-K can actually hold 60 FPS with a GTX 960 at medium-high settings without stutter. TXAA causes stutter and any other anomalies can be removed by simply limiting FPS to 60.
    The only downside is streaming the game or doing any other CPU-heavy task would indeed impact performance heavily.
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    Syte reacted to ThomasD in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    You are wasting your breath.
     
    Some people don't get it because they don't want to get it.  So much easier to slag things they don't like and call people names they don't deserve.  That many of these people are actual children is only icing on the irony cake.
     
    The G3258 is a $70 (or less) chip that will run plenty of existing games very well.  It will not run 2015's latest and greatest very well, but nobody ever said it would. 
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    Syte got a reaction from Tedster in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    How many have you had a chance to use with real-world tests and real-world machine with a wide variance of hardware first-hand? I think I'm up to over 100, I've done 15 these last 2 weeks alone.

    You get two unlocked Haswell Cores on a $70 chip, combined with the fact you can overclock to 4.4GHz easily on stock on an H81 or B85 Chipset, leaving you with $130 spent and two 4.4GHz Haswell Cores. Games that benefit from high IPC (World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Dota2, Counter Strike, etc.) will perform much better with a 4.4GHz Pentium than a 3.6GHz i5 and saves you $200.
    What would you rather? A GTX 750 with an i5 or a GTX 960 and some change with a Pentium? The CPU has a valid place on the market; large sale numbers (at least on my end) and success only goes to prove that.
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    Syte got a reaction from ThomasD in GTA V on Pentium G3258   
    How many have you had a chance to use with real-world tests and real-world machine with a wide variance of hardware first-hand? I think I'm up to over 100, I've done 15 these last 2 weeks alone.

    You get two unlocked Haswell Cores on a $70 chip, combined with the fact you can overclock to 4.4GHz easily on stock on an H81 or B85 Chipset, leaving you with $130 spent and two 4.4GHz Haswell Cores. Games that benefit from high IPC (World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Dota2, Counter Strike, etc.) will perform much better with a 4.4GHz Pentium than a 3.6GHz i5 and saves you $200.
    What would you rather? A GTX 750 with an i5 or a GTX 960 and some change with a Pentium? The CPU has a valid place on the market; large sale numbers (at least on my end) and success only goes to prove that.
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    Syte got a reaction from ElliePC in upgrading from 2011 socket to 2011-3 / x79 - x99 help   
    It really depends.
    The X99 is actually a massive step up from X79 when it comes to professional performance. It's not meant for optimal gaming price-performance. If you're rendering a youtube video every 2 days the X99 upgrade will save you a heapload of time especially if you multi task. If you do any other CPU related work (like non-real-time rendering and autodesk work) the CPU/mobo upgrade will be a godsend, however if you're mainly looking to game X79 is more than enough, if you wanted a stronger IPC for certain games I would recommend a good water cooler or going custom loop instead of upgrading to X99. Also your 670 has massive room for upgrade potential when it comes to gaming. As the newer 970 has arguably double the performance.
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    Syte got a reaction from JT8101997 in The End of Moore's Law?   
    Seeing as how everything going on behind the scenes is a closely guarded trade secret and everything these articles are based off is guided speculation based on roughly 1/10th of the available evidence from people who don't have the slightest clue of the implications of Moore's Law I think we'll have to wait and see for ourselves.
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    Syte reacted to Interfectorem in Cheap graphics card that supports up to 6 displays?   
    That's an R9 270X for $380. What a steal. Although it does have 6 inputs, which I completely missed.
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    Syte got a reaction from Interfectorem in Corsair H60 and NZXT S340   
    Easy. Default setup and hook the H60 up to top exhaust.
    Least effort; most airflow.
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    Syte reacted to werto165 in Rate these GCSE subjects from highly respected to childish   
    GCSE's mean very little for the most part. 
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    Syte got a reaction from wylliexhan in GTX Titan to GTX 980/970. Is it a worth upgrade?   
    Not worth it in my opinion. As your venerable Titan is very strong already. I would personally look to overclocking if you wanted more performance as the Titan can have a whole whack-tonne of performance gained for free due to it's extremely underpowered factory clock settings and the denial of AIB partners to ship the card overclocked at all.
    With water the GK110 Titan is an absolute monster, you'd be looking to pay a lot of money for not much more performance. The 980 would be a slight bump, but not a large one. Also I'd take a Titan any day over a 970's neutered and locked GM204 chip.
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    Syte got a reaction from Face2Face in GTX Titan to GTX 980/970. Is it a worth upgrade?   
    Not worth it in my opinion. As your venerable Titan is very strong already. I would personally look to overclocking if you wanted more performance as the Titan can have a whole whack-tonne of performance gained for free due to it's extremely underpowered factory clock settings and the denial of AIB partners to ship the card overclocked at all.
    With water the GK110 Titan is an absolute monster, you'd be looking to pay a lot of money for not much more performance. The 980 would be a slight bump, but not a large one. Also I'd take a Titan any day over a 970's neutered and locked GM204 chip.
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    Syte got a reaction from JT8101997 in GTX Titan to GTX 980/970. Is it a worth upgrade?   
    Not worth it in my opinion. As your venerable Titan is very strong already. I would personally look to overclocking if you wanted more performance as the Titan can have a whole whack-tonne of performance gained for free due to it's extremely underpowered factory clock settings and the denial of AIB partners to ship the card overclocked at all.
    With water the GK110 Titan is an absolute monster, you'd be looking to pay a lot of money for not much more performance. The 980 would be a slight bump, but not a large one. Also I'd take a Titan any day over a 970's neutered and locked GM204 chip.
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    Syte reacted to Glenwing in GTX Titan to GTX 980/970. Is it a worth upgrade?   
    A GTX 970 is practically the same performance as a Titan. Maybe even slightly less without overclocking. A 980 is a little more powerful but hardly a large jump. Just stick with the Titan.
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    Syte reacted to Sauron in GTX Titan to GTX 980/970. Is it a worth upgrade?   
    No. You spent 1000$ on that card, do you really have to change it so soon?
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