New Processing CHIP for extreme gaming

[Quesse]

lol 'extreme'

[Molly_Millions]

I got it running on a Phenom II in the background right now... 60 fps, 18% CPU usage <.<
You sure you didn't have the broken AO enabled by accident? That "feature" doesn't even look or run well on my i5...

Yes, I'm absolutely positive AO was turned off. Believe me, I would have much rather adjusted some settings than build and entirely new box, it would have been much cheaper that way. Regardless, I'm quite satisfied with my i5. I haven't looked back since replacing my other machine, which now runs netflix in my living room quite well. :P

[Loth]

We were talking about the performance of AMD Trinity in this thread. No need to get all fanboi-ish aggressive. I'm not gonna start a discussion about Intel-AMD here with you. No thanks.

Me neither, I posted my thought on the subject, and the Trinity line is not the new chip for extreme gaming.

However you posted

I highly doubt you noticed any difference in gaming. Since that isn't possible.

which I felt compelled to answer, as there were no if, ands or buts about your statement, you said it was not possible, and there are many games where an Intel CPU will perform better than any AMD CPU.

Lets leave it at that and not derail the thread (any more than it already is ).

[Keisuna]

Unless it sounds super cool like Blast Processing did, I don't care.

[Coldfire]

Lets leave it at that and not derail the thread (any more than it already is ).

Yeah, sorry. We were obviously talking about different things: what I was trying to point to was the actual gaming impression and not the fps numbers. I still think an AMD CPU will be fine for any gamer. If you're enthusiast and definately want 60+ fps all the time you will have to go for Intel.

[Orophin]

I think the new AMD chip will run ARR sufficiently since its requirements should be lower overall. If someone is planning on upgrading an older machine and on a budget, it may be worthwhile to look into it.

I used to use AMD back in the day, but I've used Intel for a better part of 10 years now. They just seem like a much better product. They're usually more expensive, but within the last 5-6 years their prices have been much more competitive. There's always the saying "you get what you pay for" as well.

I'm looking at getting an SSD drive around the time of Black Friday, and I hear nothing but good things about Intel's. They're usually a little more pricier than the Crucials and some of the other brands, but I hear they're top quality. Last thing I want to do is have to reinstall my OS three months later because my SSD took a dump.

[Dzian]

I've never been much of a fan of radeon cards and my current card is a simple gtx460 and my cpu is an amd phenom x6.

probably not the best example of a the way my graphics and lighting look but heres a screenshot.

Thats using a gtx460 and phenom x6 black cpu. I can run The AO which you can probably see in the screenshot and have everything set to maximum settings. windows experience thingy is 7.7 cpu 7.7 ram 7.8 graphics 7.8 gaming graphics and all of that is killed by my harddrives scoring 6.0

Never had an issue with nvidia and personally they always seem to run alot cooler than radeons do

[Coldfire]

Already have several SSDs. Most of the SSDs use exactly the same hardware(Sandforce controller and Samsung flash chips) so there's only a few features you have to look out for: Synchronous or Toggle NAND, Trim and SATA3 interface. But benchmark on the web usually tell enough. Taking the cheapest SSD with those features is usually good enough for every normal PC since it's already waaaaay faster than magnetic HDDs.

[Orophin]

Already have several SSDs. Most of the SSDs use exactly the same hardware(Sandforce controller and Samsung flash chips) so there's only a few features you have to look out for: Synchronous or Toggle NAND, Trim and SATA3 interface. But benchmark on the web usually tell enough. Taking the cheapest SSD with those features is usually good enough for every normal PC since it's already waaaaay faster than magnetic HDDs.

I'm more concerned with them dying after a few months like I hear happens to most of the non-Intel brands.

Anyway, I won't derail the graphics thread anymore.

@Dzian: I used to have an Nvidia 8800GTX back in the day when they were the thing to have. It ran SO HOT on me. I think all video cards nowadays run somewhat hot. I think my Radeon 6970 runs somewhere around 70-75C with FF14 running. I imagine after ARR comes out though it shouldn't stress out my video card quite as much.

[Captaindownsyndrome]

im good for a long time i have a i7 2700 overclocked 4.4, ASUS HD7970 and ssd for my hard drive im good