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    have a fx-6300. what graphic card should i buy?

    My processor is amd fx-6300 on 970 chipset. Currently have a hd6670 1GB DDR5 card, fit to full HD display. I can allocate up to US$150-200 (assume card prices in USA). Considering following - CPU bottleneck - chipset is PCI express 2.1 only (again, bottle neck) - ram is DDR3 1333MHz in dual...
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    Opteron vs xeon processors. Does opteron have less performance than advertised?

    We use xeon in our office servers and most deployments (as i know). And opteron processors are used in client deployments. Opteron processors are really cheap. However, opteron uses 8 pile driver modules (8 floating point units, 16 integer units). My home PC's processor, fx-6300 uses 3 pile...
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    no turbo core even when running prime95 in fx-6300

    Hi all, I have a fx-6300 running on msi 970A-g43, not overclocked. In bios, under overclock settings, the turbo core technology is turned on. Standard mode is selected from 3 of the main tabs (eco/standard/OC). Please note that i used the one click overclock once from bios just to check it, and...
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    Do you use : No Antivirus , FREE Antivirus , or PAID Antivirus and why?

    I use Fedora 20 with selinux at enforced, and no unnecessary services allowed. Well, the chance of viruses infecting the system is very low, and hacking the system is very hard as well.
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    Help in solving some Questions about "Newegg.com"

    For your guys information, i'll post the amount i paid to buy certain stuff in SL (last month) We have to pay alnmost twice. And we aren't a rich country either :( To build a gaming PC, you need to sacrifice complete salary of two months (and i have a good salary by sri lankan standards)...
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    Intel vs AMD? (No fanboyism please)

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    Intel vs AMD? (No fanboyism please)

    If your are using this for visualization (VM's) or anywhere raw processing power is needed (ex: Databases, big data processing, web servers) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- get the fx-8350. It...
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    Intel vs AMD? (No fanboyism please)

    I'll reply for your requirements mentioned: "And i'm looking at building this machine mainly for Music Production, Virtualization, (Virtualbox/VMware) A little bit a gaming, and possibly later as a serve Music Production - depends on your software, probably get the FX-8350 Virtualization - get...
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    fx-6300 idle at 64 Celsius. Is it ok for a warm country?

    Hi guys. I used methanol which was with me for my DSLR lens cleaning, and the cloth which came with it. Used the cooler master thermal paste. And used the hyper 212 evo directing air at the newly bought jetflo 120. Other fans in the casing are a 120 cooler master fan (in) and a chinese 120 fan...