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And here's Tom's test between the Athlon (overclocked) and newly unlocked Pentium (overclocked) showing the Pentium winning easily in a lot, and tying in others: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,3849.html I'm not sure what all you're including in your...

My bad, we're on two completely different subjects. I'm referring to APUs vs CPU and dedicated GPU lol And by the way, you're the only person I've ever seen say that Athlon's are better than the newest FX series. Especially considering a dual-core Pentium (the G3258) beats the 750k pretty well.

But why spend all that money for a poor APU system? Why not by an AM3+ board at half the price of this, RAM that is just 1600, a 6300 and a dedicated GPU and get FAR better performance than any APU will ever give, in both normal computing and gaming? APUs are about the worst price/performance ever.

It's a great PC, don't get me wrong, but you can get the same exact performance for massively cheaper: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Newegg) Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($89.66 @...

Yeah, I would have to agree with the above post. An i3 + 270 will give you noticeably better gaming performance for the money.

The problem with a 4 lane PCIe 2.0 is the amount of information it is able to pass. A 290x would be very noticeably bottlenecked by it, especially considering how the benefits of Crossfire start to rapidly decrease after 2-way. And it'll be hard to cool 3 290x's with air, even in a 900d, no...

There are certainly cases that can provide substantially better cooling and expandability, but judging from what all you've said, probably not worth it.

There are two versions, one with a grille on the side with no mesh (what you linked) as well as a windowed version.

Gotta give you props for linking plenty of information on the case lol Cases are largely just aesthetic, so if you like the look, you're probably good. The only real factor in performance a case can have is having sufficient airflow, but if you're not noticing high temperatures, then that's not...

Yeah, online calculators suck lol 300w is more around what you'll use at full load, that will increase a little based on overclock. Like Blackbird sais above, 550w is perfect for a single i5 and 760. It's also plenty for overclocking as well. I had my 4670k at 4.4GHz with a GTX 760 at 1325MHz in...

Yeah, I meant more the ones that show the FPS in-game, while showing settings/resolution as well lol And the 7750 CAN max out Crysis 3 at 60 FPS ;) Just needs to be at like 120p lol

Do NOT use sites like GPUboss or similar. Go look at actual reviews of the cards that feature real-world benchmarks of the same games, and watch gameplay videos. The 7950 is a bit lower than the 280x, and would actually be right about in the middle between the 280x and 660.

The only way to stop the throttling is to keep it cooler. If you have easy access to the heatsink, you could get some Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste and apply that. You can generally see 5-10c difference between the crappy stock paste and aftermarket. Definitely worth it on laptops.

Yes, Logisys, Diablotek, Raidmax, Apevia, most Thermaltakes, etc need to just not even be sold on Newegg lol