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    Question Upgrade to Ryzen 5 5600?

    Man, you can do a 7th gen for not a ton more money. I would try to stretch the extra 100$. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vvzZ6r Will last way longer, much newer platform.
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    Overclocking the i7 2600K - Voltage opinions

    absolutely safe / fine. I'd be concerned with 1.45-1.5 volts if temps were going over 90, but you are easily fine there.
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    X99 PC works ONLY when underclocked

    Power supply issue? Do you have a spare to test? those CPU's @ 2500Mhz consume drastically less power than they do at full speed. Just a thought.
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    Need advice: buy 1080 Ti now?

    Right now i'd snag a deal on a 1070 or 1070ti. (get one for 400$ or less) that will hold you over until volta, and you can resell w/out losing massively on it. It will still be leaps and bounds ahead of the r9 290.
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    Coffee Lake Overclocking Thread, Why Not - Sharing is Caring

    and here I had just decided that my 6700k @ 4.6Ghz delidded @ 65c max temps was more than enough (on air). Silly me.
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    Any one upgraded from i7-4790k to 1800x?

    I have found on my wife's pshop machine (Lightroom and photoshop) that the programs heavily favor faster cores over slower cores. For your purposes, an 1800x would be a downgrade. I initially didn't do my research when building the machine, and went with a i7 5820k and x99 setup, when I could...
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    295x2 Thermal Throttling & Shutdowns

    First check to see if radiator is clean, if not clean it and the card out with compressed air. Check to see if pump is working. Then check thermal paste application. THEN sell on ebay for 900$, buy a 1080ti, win.
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    I7-4610M running very hot

    Very normal for laptops. They design them to run up to about 85-90c, so as to keep fan noise lower.
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    Can someone shed some light between these CPUs?

    If i'm understanding that horrifically done video correctly, from reading the description that's posted on you-tube with the video, the 3770k is @ stock speeds. So a 600Mhz bump would easily put it on pace or ahead of the ryzen in that case with all of those games, except possibly BF1. Ugh, and...
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    RX 480 PC Crash issue (*Headache*)

    you mean that thin layer of plastic film that is on the surface of the heatsink assembly? No, thats never been a problem for me. I often leave it on and when I resell a card later down the road, it looks brand new (I don't have a case window so I could care less about how it looks)
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    Your first dedicated GPU?

    32mb geforce 256 DDR. The first 3d accelerator with hardware T&L. Made quake 3 look amazing compared to my buddies that had voodoo 3's. I still have the card! The stock cooler died, and its AGP and I have no agp cards, but I'm sure it would still work, they were so simple back then...
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    FX-8370 beats i5-2500k in new games due to multithreading

    So, testing an intel CPU from 2011, that is at stock speeds, versus a 1Ghz higher chip, with faster ram. Seems legit. Take a 2500k @ 4.5Ghz (I have yet to find or hear of a single 2500k that doesn't do so) stick it with 1866 c9 ram, and re-do the test. If the 8370 still wins, then I will concede...
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    A thank you to AMD

    You are joking, correct? that processor still sells for 800$. While an 1800x at stock may beat the 5960x at stock, once OC'd the game changes significantly. Plus he is getting the processor, motherboard, and ram for that price? that is approximately 1200$ worth of kit new. There is no way he...
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    Trade a 3770 for mildly OC'd 2600K?

    I would not. If you have a board that is capable of o/c, a p67, z68, z77, you can go up to 4 bins higher, so you'd have 4200Mhz on all cores on your 3770. I'd do that, for the free 400Mhz gain.
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    Anandtech Holiday Giveaway!

    Might as well toss my name in the hat! Very generous of you sir.
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    So I got Intel Core i3-6300 LGA1151 Skylake

    I'd go z170 just so you can select ddr4 2400Mhz and higher. the difference in price from 2133 to 3000 is pretty low, but it does make noticeable differences speed wise. Plus you can get z170 boards for like 90$
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    Motherboard and broadwell-e dead again

    Just went through a failed PSU of my own. Thought it was CPU or board. Was a corsair hx 850, high quality expensive PSU. Bought an EVGA 650 platinum, no issues since. Very bizarre as the hx powered my 2700k for a long time with no issues.
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    A10-7850k to RX 480 performance DROP(?!?)

    Completely remove drivers, re-install. Use the AMD Uninstall utility found: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx Thing has saved me more than once when I was rockin AMD cards (Up until quite recently!)
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    i7 2600 vs. i5 3570k

    You should be able to go to I believe 4.2 as a maximum for 1 core, and 3.9 for all. Even without that, I would do the 2600. Its so hard to use sub 4 threads anymore, at least for me in gaming. Pulled from another forum: "400Mhz is a decent overclock. Certainly worth doing. Nothing to it...
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    eVGA Gtx 1070 FTW: First impressions:

    By far, this is the most well built videocard that I have ever purchased, and I have had many. The 10+2 phase power delivery is probably un-necessary, but it is nice that its there for if / when I go for some hefty overclocking. The fans hardly spool up, even when playing the witcher 3, (I...
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    i5-650 Overclocking (Worth it for me?)

    your problem will be the motherboards. 1156 boards are fetching a premium right now. I'd say save one in case of a failure, and e-bay or craigslist or whatever the rest of them. Performance wise, take Sandy bridge, and minus 10% (roughly), and you'd have Clarksdale level of performance. Not...
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    Would you buy 6850k, if you already have 980x?

    I think based on his needs a 6700k would do him quite well. Get it clocked up to 4.4-4.6Ghz, and it will be a HUGE improvement gaming wise. If he does this now, he may actually be able to do it w/out spending money, if he can get top $ for his current board and processor, which seem to be...
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    How does I7-4790k overlock work?

    You can do the same thing, have it set to 4.4 all the time. the i5 2500k had a turbo as well, you just bypassed it by setting the core @ 44x100 (4.4Ghz)
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    FX 8300 vs Intel

    6400t? Likely not in everything, but in some yes. 6500 on the other hand ? Likely a win in 99% of scenarios. Plus... overclocks on a production machine... never a good idea. Look at total machine cost, not individual chip. And as the saying goes, you get what you pay for.
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    FX 8300 vs Intel

    The upgrade period end date is 7/29/16. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/upgrade-to-windows-10-faq There is no extra cost, other than maybe 5-10$? I fail to see your logic, but it is your money and you can buy what you want. Just realize that performance wise, fiscally, and for the...
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    FX 8300 vs Intel

    So, you are not aware that windows 7 upgrades to 10 pro for free? hence... 20$ windows 10pro? You already have a GPU as well? well there you go, 63$ and another 50, as you said you can go to 550$, gets you the ssd as a boot drive, and a WD black 2+tb drive. Plus it comes with a HSF that will...
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    Question about Police Lidar Standard Deviations

    First: will admit, didn't read whole thread (shame on me) To what another poster said... The machines are not "Calibrated" daily, they are checked for calibration. This is a process that is well documented, easily reproducible, and low likelihood of error. If the officer finds that the machine...
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    FX 8300 vs Intel

    http://pcpartpicker.com/list/jfYscc If you go with anything AM3+ at this point, you are just punishing yourself. thats a sub 500$ intel skylake rig, fully upgradeable to i7's from current, and karby lake generation. AND if you buy one of those windows 7 pro keys for 20$ on the forums, you can...
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    2500k/2600k users - any long term overclock/overvolting issues?

    So i'm 99% sure that the IMC on my 2700k isn't that great, do I still get a decent benefit from running 1866 on my RAM @ 9-9-9-24-1t timings? I figure thats PRETTY close to 21xxMhz at cl11 or so timings, but I know its still not quite there. I love this samsung 30nm ram, but I don't think i'm...
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    2500k/2600k users - any long term overclock/overvolting issues?

    1.28v and 4600Mhz for 5 years now on my 2700k, no signs of instability or degradation. That voltage btw, is the stock VID. That's insane.
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    6700K OC vs 5820K OC vs 5960x OC

    Not going to lie, this benchmark did surprise me a little bit. I was hoping that the 6 and 8 cores would crush the 4cores, so I'd have a reason to justify a huge overhaul. Maybe i'll just get a case upgrade and rewire / clean everything to tide me over for awhile.
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    i3-4160 vs i7-2600 (non-K) for gaming

    If you are able to source a decent: p67, z68, z77 board, I'd take the 2600 non k. You can go 4 bins above the max turbo, which I think is 3800Mhz, so that would give you 4200Mhz (? I'm not 100% sure on this, this is from memory). That would be 4c8t @ 4200Mhz, which should stomp anything that i3...
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    What CPU do you use for your primary gaming PC?

    Still the 2700k @ 4.6Ghz @ 1.28v's, since day one of acquisition, nearly 5 years ago.
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    i3-6100 or FX-8320E for budget gaming PC?

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Z420-Workstation-Xeon-E5-1620-3-6GHz-4GB-2x-500GB-NVS-300-E4L54UP-/141916912092?hash=item210ae839dc:g:SeMAAOSwFqJWoQo2 add a 200$ video card, and boom, you have an incredible PC for the money. the thing is upgrade able to 64 gigabytes of ram.
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    Looking to upgrade from a 7950

    Depending on what you are willing to do, you could try your hand at overclocking your current card a little bit. I have had plenty of 7950s, and 7970s, and most if not all of them hit 1050-1100Mhz at stock volts, sometimes less than stock. The cards that you are currently looking at, may be...
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    [Tom's] Undervolting the R9 Fury

    I just dug an old 7870myst (Tahiti xt) out of storage, was my brother's old card I think? I think I may re purpose it as a light gaming / htpc card, and edit the bios to 800Mhz core and .95v, that should make it absolutely sip power.
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    [gamegpu.ru] CPU scaling in 2015 release Games

    its posts such as this, that make me so extremely glad I actually plunked down on a high end chip for once. This 2700k has treated me quite well, going on year 5. Prior to this, I would only buy the mid - tier chips, and OC the hell out of them. Now I've had arguably a high end chip for going on...
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    Am I alone in thinking AMD's Hawaii GPU has aged really well?

    You aren't wrong. Its too bad they didn't release them with just a touch lower power consumption, like 20w even, would have made a huge difference for some people that were so on the fence about them. I'm still using an r9 290 for my main gaming rig, holds up just great.
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    You don't know slow... (C-70 APU, Win10 64-bit)

    Say hello to my 2009 MacBook pro. Still with original battery, lasts 4-5 hours. Still with original everything, aside form a samsung ssd (120gb?). Run quickly, great, and going on 7 years now. You really do get what you pay for. You could buy one of the higher end dell metal laptops, and...
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    Sort of in a conundrum

    If you sold both processors, boards, and ram, you'd be able to buy a brand new either skylake setup, or x99 with a 5820k. That could be a viable option as well ;)