My New computer build :)
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FuZion
The 47 Ronin
I do now. I always did, but not as much as I do now that I have a good cooler and an unlocked CPU.
Probley buy an h60 cooler for it, buy a small case, Use it as a entertainment center. It's a good CPU for video processesing so ill use it for just that.
mbenson
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nice setup, fusion! i may have to do the same. the AMD FX 6 core I bought earlier this year has already been thru RMA twice. I'm waiting for the 3rd replacement this week. Not sure if I'll by another AMD after this experience. 2 CPUs failing within a year is a bad record! May have to go back to Intel. I still have my Intel Quadcore Q2550(?). It was only 2.5GHz not-overclocked but its still running!
Ghonzo
The 47 Ronin
I don't know if you guys notice but the AMD HD7950 price sky rocket on ebay. Some guys even sold 1 for $500. If anyone here have 2 of the 7950 can be sold for at least $350 each. Isn't that a free upgrade to a GTX780ti?
Bitcoins miners are crazy!!!
Dam I should of bought a couple
They were on sale not too long ago
FuZion
The 47 Ronin
Thanks man! I've been following intel's progression in the CPU market for years now and lately they have done an incredible job on keeping there cpu's blazing fast at a great temperature. However AMD.. Not so much, it ain't about how many cores you got these days, it's about how powerful those cores are! AMD's weren't cutting it for me. My last intel was a e8500 duo core and that was the shit back then! I think I'll stay intel for a whole now. I've learned my AMD lesson the hard way lol. Even if you got a 3560k man those things are sweet too.
Col. Gaspar
The 47 Ronin
You really need to delid that i7 and apply some quality tim.... Haswell has the same problem as ivy bridge and that is shitty tim on the die.... I would hit 98*C on prime 95 on the h100i.... De-lidding my 3770-k got the max temperature down to about 60*C in prime 95
It takes about 10 minutes and you could net a few hundred mhz and seriously cooler temperatures
Congrats on the upgrade!
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It takes about 10 minutes and you could net a few hundred mhz and seriously cooler temperatures
Congrats on the upgrade!
Sent from my Nexus 5
mbenson
Member
Update on my adventures with AMD FX CPU. I finally got my FX 6300 back from RMA. I popped into into my Asus M5A97 LE motherboard and...Nothing! No beeps, no light on my LED monitor, nada. So I decide to get a new Asus M5A97 from Newegg last week. It arrived this week. Put my FX 6300 into it. Nada. Now I throw in my AMD Athlon X3 730 CPU which is my backup CPU. It works fine on both motherboards. WTF?!? Ok it must be this damn RMA'd CPU. I go to Fry's Electronics last night. Buy an FX8120 on sale for $120 (8 core with 16MB cache). I plop it into my new Asus motherboard. Nada. Throw it into my original Asus MB. Nada again! I even flashed both MBs to the latest bios from Asus earlier this week. Can you friggin believe this? So the morale of the story, kiddos, is don't buy any of the FX line of CPUs. After having gone through 2 retail versions and 2 RMA versions, none of them working. The original one worked for about 4 months before it stopped. My next CPU will definitely be Intel. Argh!
Sorry to laugh, Benson, but had a nightmare build for a client that went something along the lines of the crap you are dealing with. Not at all fun dealing retailers, RMA's and all the bullshit that goes along with it. Also, one of the reasons I stopped buying AMD for client builds as I just could not afford the troubles when the came up, just kills the time sink of getting a system up and running. Not saying Intel is perfect and absent troubles, just not nearly as much or often.