Shubham Yadav

I have a 6402P ( 6400 + 100MHz) and it can stay at 3.4 GHz(1/2 core), 3.3 GHz(3 core) and 3.2 GHz(all cores) for forever while maintaining a cool 50 degrees under AIDA64 with the stock intel cooler. And it can maintain the boost clock 24x7 without any issue. The 6500 will just give 3.4 GHz with all cores. Hence it will mostly be not much of an upgrade ( <7%)

The 950 isn't any faster than the 850 EVOs for real world performance because the random I/O isn't that much better. So unless you are looking to boost sequential I/O, you shouldn't even bother trying it.

It most likely is a thunderbolt 3 connection, in which case it should work just fine.

I really like the VP9 and H.265 hardware codec too.

212 EVO will really hurt the overclocking potential. These Broadwell-E CPUs need really beefy AIO coolers to even reach 4.2 GHz.

Should come around this time next year.

Yeah, both are 1080p but the AMOLED panel on the S5 is not that good. Just back up your oneplus one data, go to settings and do a factory reset. Most of your bugs should be fixed.

This is not the best 1060 but should beat the 3GB 1060 and the RX480 with ease.

Battery life, design/build quality and screen primarily. Also the software is pretty bloated and the dev support is non-existent. I personally don't care about the IP rating since I never dropped my phone in water in past 7 years or so since I started using a phone. But your mileage will vary. I just think you should be more than enough qualified to fix the software on your phone considering that you are an LTT forum member and flashing ROM is an easy 5 minute activity. Then spending 50 bucks on what is majorly a downgrade is a bad idea.

You should do a factory reset or try a stable custom ROM on your OPO and see if that fixes the software issues( sultanXDA's CM is pretty stable one). S5 neo should be a downgrade as far as I know. But it will have a more stable software in general.

I would get 50 more Euro and get an 8GB 480 or a 6GB 1060. 3 or 4GB cards will give you a lot of trouble down the line.

Wait for the 960 EVO.

You can get an RX 470 or a 1060 3GB for 200$. Even a new 960 should go for less than 150$.

You'd be fine even with 20 PCIe lanes, 28 are more than enough.

Zotac GTX 1060 mini ( both 3GB and 6GB) suck. And I'm not kidding. It gets so hot that it doesn't even boost much from the stock frequency and instead of performing on par with GTX 980, it performs around the 970 level. Get the Sapphire or get a decent 1060, like the MSI, or the Gigabyte, or EVGA, or Asus. Or if you want zotac, get the AMP.

It's like assembly code vs higher level language. Assembly will be more efficient, you can do more things with it and it directly accesses the hardware( with the machine code below it). But it's harder to code and optimize properly. Here, DX12 is like assembly code. Really hard to implement properly and the only game that uses decent DX12 implementation is AoTS. Meanwhile DX11 is like a normal language, which everyone is familiar with, guides are available, game engines use it and in general is less painful to make games on. You are also guaranteed a certain degree of optimization, which DX12 simply doesn't give. All in all the conclusion is: DX11: Easier Guides available online to develop and debug. Guarantees a decent degree of optimization due to already some pretty good game engines using it. DX12 Hard to do, but promises better result if you work hard enough. More drawcalls possible. Can use more cores, async compute, and in general more hardware resources because of direct access.

O8G: Clocked at around 1940 MHz, the best cards since they will at least boost to 2050 without any OC. A8G: Those who fail testing for the O8G BIOS at stock power and voltage. Can overclock great with additional power and voltage but in general worse. 8G: those who fail at even A8G BIOS.

Given how good the 970 overclocks, I would prefer this over the 470 4GB.

I own a 1060 and it runs pretty much anything at locked 60 fps except NMS( dips to 0 fps in between). I have mine overclocked to 2100 MHz and memory to 9500. Wouldn't even give 10$ to exchange for a G-sync monitor(unless the monitor is of better quality ofc).

Both are good enough for playing at locked 1080p 60fps anyway. So I don't think a freesync monitor is necessary unless you're planning for 144 fps.

There is some issue with OxygenOS 3.5.2 and TWRP. TWRP doesn't even work anymore on 3.5.2. I would suggest flashing stock recovery and installing with ADB.

I don't think this is going to happen. Things that cost 1000$ in US will cost over 1400$ in Brazil, because of taxes and duties.

A 6400 costs 182$ and can destroy the FX.

Among these, the best option is the R9 390 mostly for the VRAM. But I would personally spend the extra money and get the 1060 6GB or a 480 8GB at least. Remember to get a decent card from Asus strix, MSI gaming X, Gigabyte g1 gaming(for 1060), Sapphire nitro+(for 480), or EVGA SC(for 1060).

Do you have a link to back up that claim? I thought textures and models scale up to higher resolution using mipmaps.