New Processing CHIP for extreme gaming

[Darkillumina]

For strictly gaming CPU's have been giving diminishing returns for awhile now. I don't want to get into it too much right now but pretty much any quad core made in the past 3 years coupled with a good video card can pretty much run any game on max. The difference between CPU's with identical cards will be a few fps at most unless your playing with something ridiculous.

[Aloysous]

I have always loved AMD. I just hate how expensive Intel is. I can't justify buying Intel when I can get something comparable at 1/2 the cost.

[Presbytier]

I have always loved AMD. I just hate how expensive Intel is. I can't justify buying Intel when I can get something comparable at 1/2 the cost.

The i5 series is comparable to AMDs top line chips and the prices are not too off. the only real benefit Intel has over AMD is larger cache's on their chips and better hyper/multi threading tech. For the most part if i was building a windows based pc it would come down to which was on sale at the time(although I would always lean Intel just do to the fact it is better supported[much in the same way AMD Radeon cards have lousy driver support compared to nVidia]).

[Valmonte]

That is interesting. Which board do you have? BIOS or UEFI?

BIOS, i find that UEFI likes to hide many settings.

[Valmonte]

there boot leg intel's. funny thing is it true.

Intel has stolen and used more of AMD's successful cache techniques than i can count. the last Intel "clone" was the am 5x86. AMD had stomped intel for years until intels big break in 02.

[Soukyuu]

BIOS, i find that UEFI likes to hide many settings.

Depends on the manufacturer, that's why I wanted to know which board (model) you have ^^

[Valmonte]

Depends on the manufacturer, that's why I wanted to know which board (model) you have ^^

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5

[Soukyuu]

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5

Mine is GA-990FXA-UD3 O_O
There is an annoying 5-7 delay of blinking "_" before it finally switches to "Loading OS...", and no amount of turning off additional components gets rid of it... None of the sort on my brother's GA-Z77X-UD3H

[Valmonte]

Mine is GA-990FXA-UD3 O_O
There is an annoying 5-7 delay of blinking "_" before it finally switches to "Loading OS...", and no amount of turning off additional components gets rid of it... None of the sort on my brother's GA-Z77X-UD3H

im not sure what to tell you then, mine blows through the bios the moment i hit the power button i literally have to start pressing it before i turn the pc on. after post there are 2 flashes that aren't even a second in between then i'm on the loading windows screen.

here's what i got.
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
Phenom 2 955 @ 3.8Ghz
16GB OCZ Fatlity Series 2133 DDR3 Clocked @ 1800 due to AM2+ Memory controller limit
2x EVGA Superclocked 460's in SLI.
1 intel 320 SSD for OS and OS aplications
1 WD Cavier Black 2TB drive for Games and Storage.
1 Creative X-FI Fatality Series.
1 Intel PCI-E 1000/100/10 Pro

Due to my setup i have no onboard devices enabled save for USB and the AHCI controller.

[Soukyuu]

Well idk, the only thing I have enabled additionally to yours is eSATA and audio. I tried turning everything off and it gave me about 2 seconds difference, the annoying blinking is still there. I even tried disconnecting everything except for the SSD and it's still there. Messaged Gigabyte about it, let's see what they think, but I'm fairly certain that it's the controller's fault...

Anyway, that's mine:

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
Phenom II 965 @ 3.4Ghz
4GB OCZ 1600 7-7-7-24@1.65V
MSI 260GTX preOC
crucial m4 128GB SSD for OS
WD Cavier Black 500GB for storage
USB WLAN
onboard sound


Oh and after updating my E-350 based HTPC, I now have the "CCC doesn't support this driver version" error again.
Why the hell did you pack this version into the driver package in the first place, AMD?!

Gigabyte's UEFI is fine btw (GA-Z77X-UD3H). There are even more settings in it than in the BIOS version imho.