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I want the kova, seems like a nice upgrade from my dying rat te.

Thanks for the giveaway, and good luck everyone.

I refuse to accept this as real.

NO AM3 IS UNSUPERIOR TO THE INTEL 1140 SINGLE CORE 1000 MHZ, IT IS SUPERIOR IN EVERY WAY AND WILL OUTPERFORM IT IN ALL TESTS!
 
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That was mildly entertaining, I liked the comment by @EmmaLong though.

Hey guys! I already owned some of these games, so here's the extras. Please post saying what you want and I'll PM you the Steam key. I'll update the list when I can.
 
(Edit: Wow that was quick, Kayn, MoYo, and Nicholas Marzio have been sent their codes. Have fun guys!)

Introduction
So in my last topic talking about console optimisations and how they will effect people (you can see that here) I mentioned the difference between AMD cores and Intel cores just briefly but the topic is so large and broad that it deserves a thread to itself quite frankly so here it is.
 
What is the difference between AMD(FX) cores and Intel cores?
I'm going to start off with a very basic example for the tl;dr people and then expand as I go along for those of you that don't mind reading for ages :P . AMD use modules that contain 2 cores that share resources, Intel use cores that each have smaller individual resources. The easiest way to think of it is that AMD use rectangles that contain two squares (cores) and Intel use the squares themselves ^_^ (note: Intel processors share L3 cache so the sharing resources idea is not unique to AMD).
 
So are AMD(FX) cores true cores?
This question is asked a lot and the idea that AMD cores are not true cores is thrown around a lot slandering AMD's processors. The fact of the matter is linked to what I said above, when people think about cores they think about the traditional squares that Intel uses but AMD messed with this idea by creating the rectangle that contains two squares ^_^ , if you think about it like that you will realise that yes they are indeed true cores.
 
What're the advantages of this new design?
The advantages are pretty simple to understand actually, if the two cores in the modules are co-operating with each other and working on a task together then sharing resources is perfect because they can share answers, so to speak, and complete a task faster than if they were working on a task together while not co-operating. So if you think about it like that tasks that use an even number of cores AMD's core design is a better idea ^_^ .
 
What're the disadvantages of this new design?
The moment you get tasks using 1,3,5,7 etc. number of cores then you start to run into issues of the cores working on different things and trying to use some of the resources that the other core is already working with and the cores start to conflict reducing the efficiency of the task (which is the reason FX processors don't have an MP ratio equal to the core count).
 
Conclusion
AMD and Intel are no longer using the same nature of cores and have branched off in different directions meaning that we have to think about cores differently ^_^ there isn't really such a thing as a "true core" because cores can be very different. I hope this has helped you understand the difference between Intel cores and AMD(FX) cores, if there's something you want me to add or feel I've made a mistake feel free to PM me.
 
P.S. For those of you who understand things through visualisation there's a picture of the 8350 here and the 4770k here

Introduction
With recent talk of console optimisations a lot of people have been confused and everything has kind of been thrown into turmoil. A lot of people have been wondering how the new console optimisation will effect them, if their i5 or i7 will no longer be sufficient for gaming and if thier i5 or i7 will decrease in game performance.
 

Sorry For making your scores look really bad with this mighty 3.1ghz celeron  http://linustechtips.com/main/uploads/gallery/album_331/gallery_16915_331_64368.jpg

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Hi.
A friend of mine asked me to help him pick some parts for a new pc,his budget is arround 1000 euros.
I came up with this
 
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1wsyk
 
Any suggestions?
 
PS:I think the pc is for xmas so the GPU will prob go to a 9xxx series

No you are no "calling it like it is" you are just playing the ignorant. for one no it is not the heat sandwich and I dont face any of your mythical damaged hardware from running 4 in crossfire, they are all refrence cards for a reason, they eject heat from the case, the radiant heat is the only heat exhaust in the case. not to mention there is a 200mm fan drapped across all the cards to feed them fresh air, the GPU shroud also has a 120mm fan wired into it to cycle air around the cards, I never see temps higher then 78C, so Im nowhere near the danger zone of 100C+ and thats with the cards being fully stressed out bitmining or using hashcat, thats another thing you forgot, computer hardware has more implications then just gaming, I built this rig as something that came game WHILE doing hashs or mining.
 
Ive spent alot of time tweaking this machine getting to how I want it and I have no problems with it. Yes I do not have any microstutter, if you are so experienced in microstudder and runt frames you would know that there are different frame assign algorithms depending on the number of GPUs present in a system, with a 2 card config yes there is microstudder and I can confirm it by running on 2 of my cards, whenever Im running the full 3 or 4 cards the problem is not there, the algorithm is different, as each GPU needs instructions for a task, you suffer a microstudder when frames are no sent to gpus in the right order or the gpu renders a frame and displays it while the other one is doing the same instead of them both pushing frames in a sequential order with a frame time. If you know the basics of Pointers and Pointees as well as proper memory allocation and variable storage you can see how this problem exists.
 
With Radeon pro you honestly sound like the Nvidia fanboy that plugs his ears and screams "no no no" at the top of his lungs, there are benchmarks out there on tomshardware showing that frame times and runt frames are fixed with the software.
 

 

 
I dont know, looks pretty fine to me, one might say its doing a bit better then Nvidia, as the Max nvidia spike is 50 and the max radeon spike is about 47.
 
 
I also dont know where you were getting that I was making a silent "Green Machine", Im well aware that this rig drinks power and runs hot with 4 cards and an overclocked processor, Im willing to pay the extra 8 Bucks on my powerbill. 
 
I realized when I was building the rig that no games really use past 3 cards (you still see some benefits with 3), however the point of this rig wasn't just solely gaming so your point is pretty much moot as I use the GPU power for other tasks.