Amd ot nvidia

[DanielK033730112]

1 hour ago, don_svetlio said:

I disregard AA as most cards in this segment are not meant to use it - GameBreaks is also out of the question

Ill go with sapphire 380x 4gb

 

[don_svetlio]

Just now, DanielK033730112 said:

Ill go with sapphire 380x 4gb

 

best 380X on the market - enjoy

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, JoeyDM said:

I'll click in about 6.5 hours when I'm home from work  

He did his thermal tests with Heaven - without the CPU running it's already at 82*C ._.

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1 minute ago, DanielK033730112 said:

 

Damn good card, which sapphire cooler?

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, JoeyDM said:

Damn good card, which sapphire cooler?

380X is only Nitro

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

Damn good card, which sapphire cooler?

Back when Razer laptops were good

 

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3 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

380X is only Nitro

Fuckin what? 280x gets Vapor-X, Dual-X, and Tri-X Toxic and 380x is only Nitro?  

[Mr.Meerkat]

10 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

Fuckin what? 280x gets Vapor-X, Dual-X, and Tri-X Toxic and 380x is only Nitro?  

Well the nitro is the best...or at lease for 390/390x series so don't see what you're complaining about  

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Mr.Meerkat said:

Well the nitro is the best...or at lease for 390/390x series so don't see what you're complaining about  

Vapor-X is better

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2 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Well the nitro is the best...or at lease for 390/390x series so don't see what you're complaining about  

390x has tri-x.

 

390x nitro is 3 fans. 380x nitro is 3 fans.

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Vapor-X is better

Fuck...forgot about that card...fine, it's the second best  so what are you complaining about?  

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1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Fuck...forgot about that card...fine, it's the second best  so what are you complaining about?  

Because the Nitro on a 380x is not a nitro on a 390x. Nitro on 380x is basically a dual-x, Nitro on a 390x is basically a tri-x. 

[pinksnowmanshandle]

I'd suggest upgrade your CPU and go with the cheapest of those three GPUs.

Though if you can't afford to upgrade your CPU and one of the cheaper GPUs on your list. 
As much as I dislike to suggest this but the GTX 960 (4GB) would probably be better with your CPU. Though I would think that the R9 380 (4GB) would be fine too but I'm not sure if the CPU would be a bottleneck or not.

 

If you could I'd suggest you maybe upgrade to a G3258 or a G4400 or an i3 6100, though of course that's quite a bit of an added expense and maybe Zen will save AMD from it's downfall. Though Zen FX isn't going to be AM3/AM3+,  it'll be AM4 so that would mean you'd have to get a new motherboard. Which is a good thing. At least myself, and many others would think.

[don_svetlio]

6 minutes ago, wcreek said:

I'd suggest upgrade your CPU and go with the cheapest of those three GPUs.

Though if you can't afford to upgrade your CPU and one of the cheaper GPUs on your list. 
As much as I dislike to suggest this but the GTX 960 (4GB) would probably be better with your CPU. Though I would think that the R9 380 (4GB) would be fine too but I'm not sure if the CPU would be a bottleneck or not.

 

If you could I'd suggest you maybe upgrade to a G3258 or a G4400 or an i3 6100, though of course that's quite a bit of an added expense and maybe Zen will save AMD from it's downfall. Though Zen FX isn't going to be AM3/AM3+,  it'll be AM4 so that would mean you'd have to get a new motherboard. Which is a good thing. At least myself, and many others would think.

FX 8350 doesn't bottleneck the 380(X) in mot games. The Pentium, however, would be a MAJOR bottleneck

[pinksnowmanshandle]

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

FX 8350 doesn't bottleneck the 380(X) in mot games. The Pentium, however, would be a MAJOR bottleneck

Huh, I didn't notice that OP had an 8350. I thought I saw 6300...

I don't think a Devils Canyon or Skylake Pentium (G3258 or G4400) would be too huge of a bottleneck for the 380 or 380X as those cards do go well with like the Athlon X4 860 if one didn't want to pair their AMD CPU with an Nvidia GPU.

Maybe because of it being dual core.

 

 

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, wcreek said:

Huh, I didn't notice that OP had an 8350. I thought I saw 6300...

I don't think a Devils Canyon or Skylake Pentium (G3258 or G4400) would be too huge of a bottleneck for the 380 or 380X as those cards do go well with like the Athlon X4 860 if one didn't want to pair their AMD CPU with an Nvidia GPU.

Maybe because of it being dual core.

 

 

Exactly - cause it's a dual-core it's a major bottleneck as no amount of IPC can feed modern games which make use of 8+ threads

[Mr.Meerkat]

21 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

Because the Nitro on a 380x is not a nitro on a 390x. Nitro on 380x is basically a dual-x, Nitro on a 390x is basically a tri-x. 

I know, just messing around with Sapphire's naming scheme  

[pinksnowmanshandle]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

Exactly - cause it's a dual-core it's a major bottleneck as no amount of IPC can feed modern games which make use of 8+ threads

I suppose and because i3s on Devils Canyon and Skylake have Hyperthreading (don't remember if they've always had hyperthreading, I'd suspect so). they'd act more like quad cores in terms of IPC and whatnot.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, wcreek said:

I suppose and because i3s on Devils Canyon and Skylake have Hyperthreading (don't remember if they've always had hyperthreading, I'd suspect so). they'd act more like quad cores in terms of IPC and whatnot.

i3's have always been 2 cores 4 threads, ever since the i3 550.

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, wcreek said:

I suppose and because i3s on Devils Canyon and Skylake have Hyperthreading (don't remember if they've always had hyperthreading, I'd suspect so). they'd act more like quad cores in terms of IPC and whatnot.

 

 

All i3s are Dual-cores with HT. Some older i5s are also Dual-cores with HT. HT makes a great difference

[pinksnowmanshandle]

1 minute ago, JoeyDM said:

i3's have always been 2 cores 4 threads, ever since the i3 550.

 

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

All i3s are Dual-cores with HT. Some older i5s are also Dual-cores with HT. HT makes a great difference

 

 

Okay, that's what I thought. Needed some way to differentiate from the Pentium and entry level i3 I suppose.

[don_svetlio]

3 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

i3's have always been 2 cores 4 threads, ever since the i3 550.

i5 650 was the same

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2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

All i3s are Dual-cores with HT. Some older i5s are also Dual-cores with HT. HT makes a great difference

For reference, all first-gen i5's other than the i5-750  and up were dual cores with ht, the 750 was a quad core. The i5-670 was 2 cores 4 threads.

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1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

i5 650 was the same

Oh nice timing, see my new quote.

 

I said that i3 were dual core 4 threads, I never said i5's were always 4 cores  

[DanielK033730112]

Thx for all help ill go with fx 8350 and 380x 4gb nitro

And hyoer 212evo

2 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

i5 650 was the same