Kaveri release drivers were more than fine, i really dont know what you are talking about here.
I wasn't the one crying about the AMD drivers being used, you were:
Thirdly, no driver version to be found anywhere. That is because they used the original
February 2014 A8-7600 review results in the
Core i7 6700K review posted on September 2015.
Links have been posted before, but here once again with the actual game (WOT) the OPs wife is playing.
She plays one game, and it's about as far from WoT as you can get.
My wife is wanting me to build her a tower that does Facebook/Netflix and Youtube.She does play Wizard 101 and that should certainly be fine for the 8400.
Oh and all of my latest reviews(see links in my sig) for the last 3-4 years are posted on AT forums not my blog
Kudos. The last I saw, which was nowhere near 4 years ago, you were still inviting people to click on the links in your signature, as "proof" that what you were saying was somehow true.
There are only 6 games released that support Mantle, the rest will use DX-12 which is almost the same.
Yeah, it's nearly identical. That's why Microsoft is calling it Mantle, instead of Direct X, and is also paying AMD for the use of AMD's copyrighted software, huh? Oh, wait...
DX-12 is far better for the future of PC Gaming than DX-11 multithread drivers.
What does the above have to do with the fact that there are thousands of DX-10 & 11 games available to be bought, and a single DX-12 game?
AMD wisely devoted their time and money in to DX-12 both on Hardware (GCN) and Software.
That must be why the Fury X decimates the GTX 980 Ti in DX-12 then, huh?
Oops, looks like they are more or less identical to the performance differences in DX-11, which is almost nil:
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OP, you will get the best performance for your money by buying a CPU, not a GPU, and a dedicated video card. If I were in your predicament, I'd buy an AMD 860k, a cheap motherboard that can overclock it, and an nVidia 2GB GT740 video card. It's the absolute best mixture of performance per dollar. AMD's cards require faster CPUs, because AMD's drivers are single-threaded, and no matter how many cores your CPU happens to have, the rest of them wait on the AMD driver thread, slowing down everything else.
You'll end up with a happier wife with that ~$200 combination than any other, I promise. She will immediately get to raise her gaming resolution as high as her 1440x900 or 1600x1200 monitor can go, and that's always what you want to do. An Intel quad-core would be higher performance, of course, but higher performance costs a lot more. Of all of the different combinations you could choose, using the iGPU of either company will give her by far the lowest possible performance.