What is up with Toms Hardware?!?!?!?!?

[Ika]

Originally posted by: eastvillager
You're ignoring an important fact: Minesweeper was obviously their benchmark application. That rig is a SWEET rig for playing minesweeper.

think they can break 5 seconds?

 

[jbubrisk]

Originally posted by: guoziming

Originally posted by: eastvillager
You're ignoring an important fact: Minesweeper was obviously their benchmark application. That rig is a SWEET rig for playing minesweeper.

think they can break 5 seconds?

I don't know, Intel Integrated 'Extreme' Graphics Processing might beat it... Bet they could get it down to four with that.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: jbubrisk

Originally posted by: Smartazz
Maybe whoever wrote the article thought that gaming is cpu dependant like many do.

Well, it depends on the game. But basically if you don't have a DECENT GFX card, then it doesn't matter what CPU you have, and vice versa. Bottlenecks man.

you are more than likely to be bottlenecked by a gpu than a cpu today.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: jbubrisk

Originally posted by: Smartazz
Maybe whoever wrote the article thought that gaming is cpu dependant like many do.

Well, it depends on the game. But basically if you don't have a DECENT GFX card, then it doesn't matter what CPU you have, and vice versa. Bottlenecks man.

I know about bottlenecks, I have a friend who thinks that gaming is all in the cpu and brags to me because his cpu is a tad faster than mine, but I have a far better video card, some people are ignorant, some people don't know gaming is gpu limited.

 

[zephyrprime]

Originally posted by: guozimingyeah that article was pretty stupid. but, the watercooling wasn't such a bad idea, especially for the 805. If you think about it, if you can get the 805 stable at 4ghz with a WC kit that keeps the CPU + cooling cost under $300, it's an excellent deal. I only trust THG for articles that can't really be wrong, like overclocking the 805.

That's not an excellent deal. For that much, you could just get a 165 opteron and get better formance with less effort.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime

Originally posted by: guozimingyeah that article was pretty stupid. but, the watercooling wasn't such a bad idea, especially for the 805. If you think about it, if you can get the 805 stable at 4ghz with a WC kit that keeps the CPU + cooling cost under $300, it's an excellent deal. I only trust THG for articles that can't really be wrong, like overclocking the 805.

That's not an excellent deal. For that much, you could just get a 165 opteron and get better formance with less effort.

No you can't, an opteron 165 costs $330 almost everywhere but mwave.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: jbubrisk
I used to think Toms Hardware was a reputable place for computer hardware information

That was your first mistake.

- M4H

 

[Looney]

Dumb article. You need to buy a watercooling setup and a good PSU to handle the watercooling and all the power the OCed CPU requires... all for a budget system running a X1300. Bunch of morons. If you want to OC, go with a 930 that you can OC to 4ghz on the stock HSF (and you don't need an extreme PSU), and invest in a better GPU.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: Looney
Dumb article. You need to buy a watercooling setup and a good PSU to handle the watercooling and all the power the OCed CPU requires... all for a budget system running a X1300. Bunch of morons. If you want to OC, go with a 930 that you can OC to 4ghz on the stock HSF (and you don't need an extreme PSU), and invest in a better GPU.

It's Tom's hardware, what did you expect?

 

[Trevelyan]

Yeah that's stupid. You can spend $200 on a video card, $250 on cpu/motherboard and $75 on ram and have a MUCH better gaming rig than that.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Wow that really was awful...

Yikes...

:: Deletes tomshardware bookmark ::

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: zephyrprime

Originally posted by: guozimingyeah that article was pretty stupid. but, the watercooling wasn't such a bad idea, especially for the 805. If you think about it, if you can get the 805 stable at 4ghz with a WC kit that keeps the CPU + cooling cost under $300, it's an excellent deal. I only trust THG for articles that can't really be wrong, like overclocking the 805.

That's not an excellent deal. For that much, you could just get a 165 opteron and get better formance with less effort.

No you can't, an opteron 165 costs $330 almost everywhere but mwave.

You can get OEM 165's from Monarch for $275 with their nearly weekly coupon codes. That is, if you can stand to stomach Monarch.