Thinking about switching from AMD to intel?

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Magical_waffle

Magical_waffle

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As right now I'm rockin the AMD fx-6350 six core 3.9 GHz. I've been playing a lot games that are really cpu heavy and my fx-6350 just isn't doing the job. I'm been thinking about trying out a intel cpu. What do you guys think?
 
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For reference:
*Note that it is with a Titan, but it shows how low differences between CPUs can be.
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As you can see, there's not much difference between that CPU and a much more expensive one.
What kind of FPS are you getting?
 
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normally I can average about 40ish frames on a single player mission but when I join a server I average out at 10 to 30 frames. And I've been through guides to help my frames but most the guides only gave me a extra 5 frames boost.
 
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Do you know what kind of temperature's you're getting while playing? A program such as HWMonitor or HWiNFO64 (sensors only mode) should help you identify whether you're overheating or not. Take a screenshot once you've opened the program, leave it open and play a game, then take another screenshot and post them both here.
 
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Here's a solution. You might not need another copy of windows, legally though you do:

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2LFnx
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2LFnx/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2LFnx/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($319.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($114.99 @ Microcenter)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $584.95
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-01 22:09 EST-0500)

If you already have an aftermarket CPU cooler that works well enough you can disregard the one I've added.
I strongly recommend you get another 4GB stick of RAM which is the same model as your current one.
 
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Hmm, your voltages are odd. The temperatures are just within accepted ranges so that wouldn't be causing you to trhtottle.

However your +5V and +12V voltages are odd, there should only be slight variance within a decimal point either side of the associated value, it shouldn't be changing through integers.

It's possible your Power Supply is faulty. What's the brand and model?

Also generally intel is better for gaming. From my experience, at least in this gen, AMD tends to require a little more tweaking to get it to play some games as well as its intel counterparts. Often though they perform very similarly and you can't notice a difference, but in other instances the intels clearly outperform the AMD competition. I think in this case it's worth sorting out this potential power supply problem first.
 
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If his voltages are odd what would you say about mine?...
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(A6-3670K @ 3.1GHz, ASUS EAH5770 CUcore, 2x4GB G.Skill RipjawsZ 2400MHz (but at 1866MHz due to mobo limitations)
You're scaring me.



Hmmmm, is that 1 stick of 4GB or 2 sticks of 2GB? If it's single channel then it's highly likely that's what causing a poor performance. You should get dual channel for AMD CPU's. But even if it's 4GB total in dual-channel, that's still a tad small amount of RAM.
As a comparison, I have 2x4GB of RAM. While playing BF4 at 1366x768 HIGH the RAM usage reaches 60-70%. Not sure about ARMA 3, but I assume it should use about the same or even more, depending on your settings...
 
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Check the total RAM usage while playing. Also, are you running BF4 in x86 or x64?

I'm pretty damn sure you should be getting more frames with your HD7950, ffs! ._.
 
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Yeah, I think yours is odd too. Bear in mind I'm no PSU expert, but I did quite a lot of research following my PSU blowing out my CPU and mobo.

Here's a resource that shows the tolerances: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/insidethepc/a/power-supply-voltage-tolerance.htm I'd have to assume that yours are off too. However, it's possible that software doesn't correctly read the voltages and instead you should use a multimeter to measure it. If you haven't got a quality PSU then I'd definitely take the 'safe-than-sorry' route and get a new one.

+1 to dual channel RAM, I mentioned that earlier too but not in detail.
 
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So you have a 32-bits OS (its RAM limitation should be around the 3.3GB you mentioned)? Them that most likely is the problem, I'm afraid. Games are getting more and more RAM-hungry. Notice how BF4 is already using a x64 executable, if you have a x64 OS.

Your PC supports 64-bits OS's perfectly, so the only problem should only be... do you have a legit or a "legit" Windows?
 
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You need 8gb of ram total, and unpark your cores, and get a better PSU like even a cheapish corsair builder, or xfx core edition 550w or so and your experience should improve, I don't think that motherboard is very good for overclocking at all if I remember right, that's one of those cheap 970 mobos with sucky power phase and no VRM heatsinks
 
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