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I'm planning on an upgrade for Star citizen, Elite dangerous and other games.. Basically mobo and CPU upgrade.. I got ddr3 ram and 16 gigs of it and a decent nvidia card. I'm looking for cheep quad cores or more and I been looking over AMDs. They still got the issue of not working with Nvida cards? And are they still flunky as shit?

Last time I used an AMD set up it blew out and that was 7 years ago

Also I only got one copy of windows so does that cause shit storm using that one with a different mobo setup?


Edit Also I posted this in the wrong spot please move to off topic?

EDIT2: Done and done - Peoplearestrange

Turns out that amd and intel are both overhyped shit (especially intel). Just get an off-brand one, but get a really sturdy motherboard so that it doesnt get fried.

deathhoof wrote:Turns out that amd and intel are both overhyped shit (especially intel). Just get an off-brand one, but get a really sturdy motherboard so that it doesnt get fried.

Don't listen to this faggot.

Go intel or AMD it really doesn't matter. AMD do a range of cards (used to be ATI) that compliment their processors so look into that, if you want an AMD. Personally I've used both over a decade or so, I haven't seen any real quality difference, both have served me well.

i got a 630 Vid card not going to upgrade for a while but I need to upgrade the mobo and CPU, Any suggestions from any of the parts site. Some thing like this...
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=7718

Comrade Leo wrote:

deathhoof wrote:Turns out that amd and intel are both overhyped shit (especially intel). Just get an off-brand one, but get a really sturdy motherboard so that it doesnt get fried.

Don't listen to this faggot.

Go intel or AMD it really doesn't matter. AMD do a range of cards (used to be ATI) that compliment their processors so look into that, if you want an AMD. Personally I've used both over a decade or so, I haven't seen any real quality difference, both have served me well.

Megacorp shill detected.

deathhoof wrote:

Comrade Leo wrote:

deathhoof wrote:Turns out that amd and intel are both overhyped shit (especially intel). Just get an off-brand one, but get a really sturdy motherboard so that it doesnt get fried.

Don't listen to this faggot.

Go intel or AMD it really doesn't matter. AMD do a range of cards (used to be ATI) that compliment their processors so look into that, if you want an AMD. Personally I've used both over a decade or so, I haven't seen any real quality difference, both have served me well.

Megacorp shill detected.

I would say faggot detected, but everyone knew that already.

FX 6300, FX 6350, FX 8320 are probably the best AMD CPUs for your buck. after you get out of that pricerange (i think the 8320 is $140) i'd start looking at the higher end i5s (4490, 4690K) and even i7s (4790k and 5820K but these are probably overkill). don't get an APU ever. i know you probably weren't even considering an APU but i thought i'd just mention it regardless.

they can work with nvidia cards but it depends on the manufacturer. i had a zotac nvidia card (GTX 660 i think?) and it was shit with an AMD CPU. store let me return it for the same card with a different manufacturer. got the same card from MSI and it was great.

full disclosure: i'm currently on a system with FX 6300 and a 7870 radeon card. still runs games that are coming out without any issue, but if i could do anything differently in retrospect i'd bump the 7870 up to a r9 270x.

I have an i7-4700QM 2.4GHz that can slow down to 1 GHz or boost up to 3 GHz depending on my power plan and resource usage and it's absolutely wonderful. Before that I had an i5 that ran at 2.4-2.7 GHz or something and I never had any issues with that either. Problems with video games always came from my GPU, which in my old laptop was a horrible piece of shit Mobility Radeon. My current laptop has a GeForce GT550M which is about the highest you can go in the 500 series without going with a GTX, and which can run new AAA titles at maximum graphics.

The processor in my first PC was an AMD Athlon with just 1 core that ran at 2.1 GHz, and it was probably the best CPU at its time.

Just stop this is not a debate. I don't have the cash for Intel... maybe if i win the 150 Million lotto i would get an I7 hands down and build the most epic PC i could get. Right now I am poor as fuck wanting to get ready for low graphic setting play of Elite dangerous, star citizen, farcry 4, and so forth

Well, according to the Elite Dangerous site, the MINIMUM you need is 4 cores with 2 GHz, so an i5 with a decent speed should work.

Well an I5 is costly son

give us a pricerange to work with then

ED minimum is not what they say it is. I work it on an dual i3.

no

200-300$ Murican Mostly looking for mobo and CPU

yeah A Monster Dick is pretty good

It's like none of you plebs browse /g/
http://www.logicalincrements.com/

oranges wrote:It's like none of you plebs browse /g/
http://www.logicalincrements.com/

aw yis.

AMD if you want 8 cores for some reason (MULTITHREADING IS A LIE), Intel if you want a driver.