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this i was not expecting. great find!

oh Ubisoft...

basically this. even with a 4790K, some games (like Saints Row 2) will dip below ~40 fps regardless of the settings, and that's with an R9 290. having a better CPU will help, but as far as a "bottleneck" is concerned, i doubt anything major would happen. i say go for it.

*excitement intensifies* for a moment, i thought they would be scrapping the idea of a PC version... or was that a phony news article that i bought hook, line, and sinker?

i don't like it. my family was recently hit with a data cap that we had absolutely no prior knowledge of (AT&T, who'd've guessed), and seeing as my folks are consumers this proposal in its current state would do nothing to stop it. seems like Tom Wheeler cares more about his payouts than his career...

what? broadcasting the location of a known speedtrap is illegal in some places? that's absurd! guess those municipalities aren't earning enough money with the high taxes, because hell if they actually acted to prevent incidents on the road... anyways, if you're in the United States, i suppose this app would fall under a very loose definition of a "radar detector", which are legal almost everywhere.

I was hoping this was an intended use for an HSA-enabled APU, but since programs/games as of late haven't taken advantage of this feature then yeah, I would agree. Doesn't mean I don't want one for myself eventually, of course. If anything, we at Linus Tech Tips love good choices, and it just so happens that Intel CPUs are a good choice at this moment. This is coming from someone with a primarily AMD bias. Hopefully, AMD Zen in 2016 will help rectify this situation.

SOL, as far as i know. only R7 240 or 250[X]

pick any game and i'll probably not be very good at it, but League is the best fit for the topic. also any other game that's competitive multi-player.

if Phenom II competed with Core 2 Quad, i doubt FX would be any weaker. as weak as FX cores are, they aren't five-years-ago bad. but anyways, to the OP: i ran a GTX570 with a Phenom II just fine; a friend of mine runs an older Athlon dual-core with a GTX 560 Ti (out of necessity more than anything). i doubt a GT630 would be any trouble for a C2Q.

as an AMD fan but a recent Intel convert, i find this a bit hard to believe (as much as i secretly want to). all of these games are GPU-bound, so of course the difference is going to be negligible. how about running something like Dota 2 or even Half Life 2... y'know, something thread-dependent on any resolution?

personally, i would wait for FreeSync. what kind of a second-hand graphics card were you looking at?

personally, i say stick to AMD. the G3258 is a dual-core with no Hyper-Threading, whereas the FX-8320 has four "modules" with eight integer compute units. even though AMD's single-threaded performance isn't as good as anything from Intel for the past few years, multi-threaded performance would simply tank on the Pentium, and overclocking can take you only so far. plus, with the AMD part, you can both play AND stream a game, whereas with the Pentium part you'd likely have to pick between the two. general rule of thumb: two AMD "cores" is approximately equivalent to one Intel core w/o HT

did you plug the power cables into the graphics card?