Recent content by superunknown98

I have two Gigabyte AB350-Gaming-3 Motherboards and had terrible Freezing and BSOD problems because of my memory. The first board I bought when Ryzen 1 first came out and did not bother to buy "compatible" memory because prices were so high at the time. The board would not run my memory at it's...

I agree, an intergrated DRAM controller will always be faster with less latency than off die, all things being equal. Do we have confirmation on the clock rate of the IO hub yet or even the layout? Ring or crossbar?

Looking at Anandtech's review of the i7-8700K/ i5-8400, the 4/8 core 7700K is almost always faster than the 6/6 i5-8400. Granted this is probably because of the 7700K's extra cache and clock speed, not hyperthreading. Although if Intel doesn't keep the clock speeds of this new i7 decently...

Along with what others have suggested, I think we will see quite a bit more investment in different areas of efficiency, like when GPU's were stuck at 28nm for two generations. Chip designers can focus on making the logic more power efficient or provide more IPC for instance. Logic can be more...

Possibly this configuration could be a low end mobile part? 4c/8t?

Like a few other people have said, It would cost AMD more to create a new die that lacked the SMT, than it would to simply salvage defective dies and disable the SMT. The only way we would see an 8/8 layout is if there are enough defective dies to produce such a product or the 8/16 is so...

Off the top of my head, check the bios for usb settings. I know Asus boards have a few options about legacy settings. Did you try moving the soundcard to a different usb port? Also make sure you have drivers for 3rd party usb chipsets if your board has any.

This sounds very strange to me, I do not recall any recent card being able to display 3 HDMI or DVI at the same time. I recommend looking at the cd that came with your card for the manual. I tried to find any 290 card's manual online and came up blank. But according to Wikipedia for eyefinity...

I think what OP is trying to ask in more practical terms: Might the extra threads available in an AMD APU provide higher frame rates or more responsive secondary tasks than a dual core Intel chip while running background tasks. I think it's a valid question.

He should be able to upgrade to windows 10 if he wants the start menu back.

If you weren't under warranty, you could try to trim either heat sinks fins.

I have had an Intel CPU go bad before and it's not very hard to get an RMA. Just a wild shot, check the pins on the motherboard socket. Make sure none of them are bent.

Is this something new with APU's? This used to be possible with motherboard graphics. Most Intel motherboards I setup these days have an option to leave the IGP enabled even with a discrete card for Desktop triple monitor support.

Yeah, but I was thinking along the lines of a 20nm shrink, and maybe some other improvements. Kind of a, where would AMD be now if they had never designed the bulldozer cores type thing. I would like to see faster cat cores because they are most likely the future of AMD.

Hmm, If it could be anything in AMD's portfolio maybe a die shrunk stars core but with some improvements, just to see what it would perform like. If it has to be derived from an actual product, I would go for a much higher clocked Kabini. Say 3.5Ghz or more, power usage be damned! Mainly...