BarnacleStinson

I haven't been able to find any, kinda frustrating.

I have an i5-2500 sitting here collecting dust, and u wanna put it in an HTPC for my living room. But I'm having some difficulty choosing between mATX and mITX. Are ITX 1155 boards still expensive, even in the used market?

I'm helping a friend or together an ultimate Vista machine for a video, and I can't figure out if there are AM3 and 1156 boards with Vista drivers, or if the last ones to have them were AM2+ and 775.

AMD Athlon II X4 860k in an MSi A88XM GAMING motherboard, with 4GB RAM and a 500GB HDD. The GPU is a GTX 750 1GB, all inside of a DIYPC Solo T1-R case. I also have a 19 inch 4:3 1280x1024 monitor. I was thinking $200 would be a good price but a friend suggested $180. Anyone have some input to give on this?

That's my point. It's NOT that much of a difference. But I'm wondering how many people would still be turned off by the fact that they stacked themselves up based against a technically "old" architecture, if any. I've seen people on other forums say competing against broadwell would be a bad idea for AMD and that it'd hurt their sales to use an old architecture as a guideline. I call BS, but I wanted a second opinion on that,

No, but let's say Intel get cocky and keep their CPU pricing the same for the time being, and AMD tries to undercut the current prices. Would the lack of architectural performance be enough to steer you away from Ryzen?

We've all heard the estimates of Ryzen's performance. It'll be the equivalent of Haswell, Broadwell, even Skylake. But what I'm wondering is IF it really is only as good as Haswell/Broadwell, would that be enough for some of y'all to wanna pay $100-$200 more for a Kaby lake CPU? Or would the fact Ryzen is technically behind Intel not bother you?

Zen will be dual channel from the looks of things. I know it's not the best comparison but maybe we could get a 6900 with quad versus the CPU AMD has been using for the comparisons with dual and make some real world tests?

So I got a nostalgia blast today. Saw an old dell optiplex with one of those plastic ducts over the processor in a pawn shop. It actually got me to thinking, how hard would it be to mod one of those into a modern case and would it improve temperatures with air cooling at all? What kind of limitations would there be with things like choice of cooler, difficulty mounting it to the board if necessary, etc.

I just think it's ridiculous Intel has hex core processors on the enthusiast platform. The cost for a 6800k system is entirely in the motherboard. And that's bull IMO.

Even if it required quad channel, why couldn't Intel turn the four slots we already have into quad channel? They could, couldn't they?

How so? The 6800k as it is only $100 more than the 6700k.

Title says it all. Many people I've talked to about how Intel should bring hex core processors to consumer systems have said dual channel memory would bottleneck the CPU. I'm wondering what you guys think about this claim.

Assuming I get my asking prices, parting it out should get me $440. The idea here is to have more cash to spend on personal expenses so I can only allocate a small amount of what I make from this sale towards a replacement device.

Can you and have him install the game and have it work? Yeah. Is it legal to do so? Ehhhh....I'd say probably not. Being that this is a place that can get shut down for piracy promotion, we cannot condone illegal distribution of software in any way, shape or form. It's illegal. And he also HAS to have an account on Steam that has a record of purchasing the game for online functionality to work.