Recent content by sapperastro

Buy a console and play the small list of games released for said console or Build a cheap, upgradable PC that can play literally thousands of gaming titles, across tens of different platforms (emulation), many different genres not found on consoles, do other things beside gaming (work, study...

As stated, things have not progressed a great deal in cpu land. The 8350/ 8370 is better, but not by a massive margin. Sort of like going from a Sandy bridge i5 to a Haswell i5; not really worth the money unless that 10-20% is worth it. For that money you won't be able to go Intel unless you...

They promised it would be 'released by christmas'. Never seen Intel have this many issues bringing out a new node chip before. I am not expecting miracles from this one.

I suggest waiting for Broadwell first.

Hmm, no phenom mentioned? Yet it mentions FX.... Have you tried downloading and using Speccy? or CPU-Z? As for the PSU, the power rating is not what I was concerned about, rather the brand of the psu. A 500 psu will easily handle that 470, so long as it is at least a bronze rated psu. Silver...

Suztera has answered your questions.

What soundcard is in the PC?

It sounds to me like your motherboard doesn't support overclocking. It should have the option to increase cpu (fsb) frequency, voltage and memory divider. Also, do you have a Manchester, Toledo, Windsor, Windsor 2 (lower tdp)...Socket 939 or AM2? With that way of overclocking, your ram also...

I would go with the 6350 as well. Get a hyper 212 evo cooler or equivalent. The 6350 will help you with those mult threads you plan on using at the same time. The i3 4160 is stronger (usually, not always) in gaming, without having a ton of other things going on at the same time, which you plan...

It is very hard to answer your question without getting the specs of that motherboard and how high a tdp cpu it will accept. I searched for it and only found asian websites with no english. The best cpu you could get without overclocking would be the Phenom x4 9950. However, that has a tdp of...

Bethesda hasn't progressed much in the programming department in years. I am totally unsurprised at how poor that game runs. I think too many people are blaming the consoles rather than the sloppy programming (more like brute force porting) of these developers. Nobody seems to find it amusing...

Download a program like Speccy, CPU-Z or even both, use them, and either take snapshots to post here, or copy down what CPU, motherboard, RAM, power supply unit you have for starters. Is this a pre built computer? Dell, HP, etc?

These days, I have no idea whether AMD is coming or going. They put one roadmap up, tear it down, put another up, say something else, etc. Since my FX is (currently) doing its job well enough, I am happy to sit and see what happens. Unfortunately, this thread seems to be spiraling into one...

What brand and model is your power supply? While the power usage of the 250x is quite low, it does need an extra cable attached from the power supply.

What video card do you have? The FX 6300 is better than that CPU. Toms seems to have some odd ideas at the top of that list, especially regarding i3 cpus. The Haswell i3 can defeat a 6300 in a number of games (and vice versa), but earlier i3s are bested by the FX. I still find it strange that...