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[The Milkman]

lol dat 6GB Titan
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php...=22756&zenid=1b3a25bbc937298c43d0663f74f50e9a

Daaaaammmmnnn. What the hell would you need that for? Running space stations?

 

[trumpet-205]

Daaaaammmmnnn. What the hell would you need that for? Running space stations?

Running triple monitors, 3D gaming, or very high resolution such as 2560 x 1600.

 

[Originality]

It supports up to 4 monitors. That's like, space age!
No, nobody make a reference to EyeFinite6.

 

[The Milkman]

Running triple monitors, 3D gaming, or very high resolution such as 2560 x 1600.

Huh, well I sure learned something here today.

 

[BMinkie]

its the fx 4130

 

[trumpet-205]

its the fx 4130

FX-4130!? You bought Zambezi instead!?

Do yourself a huge favor and swap it to FX-4300 (Vishera) instead. Zambezi (first gen Bulldozer) is pretty bad performance wise, slower than its predecessor Phenom II (K10).

 

[BMinkie]

I cant afford the 4300 or else I would have bought it lol

with the 4130 8 gigs of ram and my geforce gtx 650 ti boost what do you think my gaming experince will be? Will I run games on ultra? at 1080p

Im going to see if I can scrap up 20 bucks and exhange it for this? what do you think

http://www.microcenter.com/product/...on_42GHz_Quad-Core_Socket_AM3_Boxed_Processor

 

[trumpet-205]

tl

Much better, FX-43xx is much better than FX-41xx. Bulldozer/Zambezi has a lot of problems, and Piledriver/Vishera (2nd gen Bulldozer) improved on it quite a bit. Piledriver/Vishera has competitive raw performance against Intel Sandy Bridge at respective price point (ie: FX 8 cores vs i5 4 cores, FX 6/4 cores vs i3 2 cores).

You will not however, being able to run 1080p at max with those setups. Both AMD FX processor (regardless of which one you bought) and GTX 650 Ti will prevent it from happening (the best you can get is high settings w/ full 60 fps).

To get max settings w/60 fps on 1080p, it will only happen with Intel Core i5 with GTX 660 or HD7870 above.

 

[BMinkie]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1693236/amd-fx4130-good.html

im getting conflicting reports im just going to stick with what I have

 

[trumpet-205]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1693236/amd-fx4130-good.html

im getting conflicting reports im just going to stick with what I have

Unfortunately, 8350rocks and dirtyferret are not telling the truth. For the game (Starcraft 2) you about to play,

FX-4130 is 400 MHz slower than FX-4170 (which itself is slower than Phenom II), so there you have it. Also when someone said you can play BF3 Ultra, he or she meant single player. On multiplayer mode that is not a possibility.

 

[BMinkie]

im soo confused

 

[natkoden]

you'll be fine, don't worry

that cpu won't bottleneck the 650 Ti and you will get much better performance than the benchmark above

but you could - should - OC

 

[trumpet-205]

im soo confused

Here is my thinking. I consider CPU to be a long term investment. A good CPU lasts longer, slower CPU on the other hand does not. Unlike GPU when you replace CPU you also likely need to replace the motherboard as well.

Sure some might argue that fps difference is not huge, but keep in mind this is for current game. The gap will slowly widening for future game.

I do agree with what dirtyferrethave said about overclocking. It certainly is one way to bring out more performance, if you don't mind taking the time to do overclocking.

 

[natkoden]

Here is my thinking. I consider CPU to be a long term investment. A good CPU lasts longer, slower CPU on the other hand does not. Unlike GPU when you replace CPU you also likely need to replace the motherboard as well.

Sure some might argue that fps difference is not huge, but keep in mind this is for current game. The gap will slowly widening for future game.

I do agree with what dirtyferrethave said about overclocking. It certainly is one way to bring out more performance, if you don't mind taking the time to do overclocking.

he bought it for SC2, so when the next SC games comes out, he can change the CPU again (?)

 

[trumpet-205]

he bought it for SC2, so when the next SC games comes out, he can change the CPU again (?)

He could, but he'll likely need a new motherboard as well. Both SC1 and SC2 are highly dependent on CPU (these games don't really care about GPU).

 

[BMinkie]

the game I play aren't going to be graphic intense

Starcraft 2
shadowrun returns
Team fortress
maybe elder scrolls when that comes out
skyrim
deus ex
bioshock infinite

I should be able to play this on high to ultra on 1080p right?

 

[natkoden]

Skyrim and Bioshock infinite, I don't think so.

At least not at more than 30 something FPS.

if you disable AA, tesselation and SSAO, maybe you can achieve 60fps.

 

[BMinkie]

thats ok with me

what rigs are you guys running

 

[natkoden]

for the moment, my old rig from 2009

i5 750 @ 4ghz
4gb ram (8gb soon)
7800 GT (sold my 5850 and I'm using this momentarily until the GTX 760 arrives)

when steamroller hits the market, maybe i'll upgrade the cpu

seeing how haswell was a total dissapointment, I'm in no rush

 

[BMinkie]

does my motherboard support steamroller?