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Is it worth getting a bulldozer instead of something like a 1055t/1090t?
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
If you want more cores then yes.(8 Core Bulldozer) Otherwise no. There is a 10-15% loss of performance as of right now when you compare Bulldozer to the Phenom II series.
Last edited by Naturn (2012-02-14 15:55:03)
Well I've read some benchmarks that say in single threaded program's the phenom is better but in multithreaded applications the bulldozer has it beat.Naturn wrote:
If you want more cores then yes.(8 Core Bulldozer) Otherwise no. There is a 10-15% loss of performance as of right now when you compare Bulldozer to the Phenom II series.
Theyre also evenly priced.
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
I would think you may not have a choice between the 2 to much longer. They might be phasing out the Phenom II series if they have not already. I personally would get a Phenom II X6 1090T if you can find one. I would assume you would mostly be gaming with it. So look at the benchmarks in games.
Indeed a would be gaming with it. Cheers Nate.Naturn wrote:
I would think you may not have a choice between the 2 to much longer. They might be phasing out the Phenom II series if they have not already. I personally would get a Phenom II X6 1090T if you can find one. I would assume you would mostly be gaming with it. So look at the benchmarks in games.
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Yeah phenom it is.Finally, when it came time to play games the FX range was really no better than the Phenom II. To be completely honest, gaming on these high-end processors is so similar it's hardly worth worrying about. The FX-8150 was never more than a few frames per second slower than the Core i7-2600K at 1920x1200.
Given that today’s latest game releases are only starting to adopt quad-core processors, having six or even eight threads available is of little consequence.
As for performance vs. power efficiency, the AMD FX processors are really not much better than the Phenom II range either, which is disappointing. When compared to Sandy Bridge CPUs, such as the Core i7-2600K and Core i5-2500K, the new FX processors stack up very poorly.
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
To be honest, if you're on a budget you get a Phenom II, and if you want performance you go Intel. Bulldozer doesn't seem to have it's place in the market.
I wouldn't say I'm on a budget, just don't wanna spend a lot more money for intel, for that i would require a new motherboard and a new processor, and I only got my 990fx ud3 on Thursday.Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
To be honest, if you're on a budget you get a Phenom II, and if you want performance you go Intel. Bulldozer doesn't seem to have it's place in the market.
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Yeah I don't mean in your particular case, just the CPU market in general.Camm wrote:
I wouldn't say I'm on a budget, just don't wanna spend a lot more money for intel, for that i would require a new motherboard and a new processor, and I only got my 990fx ud3 on Thursday.Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
To be honest, if you're on a budget you get a Phenom II, and if you want performance you go Intel. Bulldozer doesn't seem to have it's place in the market.
Should mobo makers just drop PCI expansion slots all together? Question for discussion I guess.
... and only 6 internal SATA ports. A bit sad, if you ask me.Beduin wrote:
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I think there is more than that with the two metal connectors near the bottom. Also what form factor is this board?CapnNismo wrote:
... and only 6 internal SATA ports. A bit sad, if you ask me.Beduin wrote:
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Oh, balls. Ye olde power unit, Codegen Dual Switching 550W ATX 2.0 (P4) started to have some noise. Looking at a Corsair TX750W V2 Enthusiast Series for replacement.
My monitor is doing something peculiar. If i'm on a website with a black background (or game) then switch to a white website my monitor has to fade to white. It doesn't go straight to white. It takes it a second to fade from black to white, its not as bad as it sounds tho, it starts at a light grey then goes white.
High Performance Technology Extended, HPTX. dubbed by evga when the sr-2 came out... pretty fabcy stuffComputer_Guy wrote:
.. Also what form factor is this board?CapnNismo wrote:
... and only 6 internal SATA ports. A bit sad, if you ask me.Beduin wrote:
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So I'm looking into buying a second, cheap GPU so I can drive my 3 monitors and HDTV in the next room at the same time. Goal would be to simply have monitor #2 cloned onto the HDTV so that way I don't have to constantly turn the one monitor off and switch the HDTV on via Windows Control Panel. Looking at the GT430 (I have a GTX460), but the odd thing is that I don't see any way that I can SLI these cards, nor do I see any power connectors of any kind on the board... The card in the link is a passive Zotac and I was looking at an EVGA, too, but didn't see anything on that one, either.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814500222
Anyone know how I would connect my SLI bridge?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814500222
Anyone know how I would connect my SLI bridge?
You don't need to SLi a second card to run a monitor off of it. If you're just needing to output HD res, you won't need a massive card. Something old will do. I'm pretty sure an 8400gs would be fine. I was running a 1600x1200 CRT off of one aloneCapnNismo wrote:
So I'm looking into buying a second, cheap GPU so I can drive my 3 monitors and HDTV in the next room at the same time. Goal would be to simply have monitor #2 cloned onto the HDTV so that way I don't have to constantly turn the one monitor off and switch the HDTV on via Windows Control Panel. Looking at the GT430 (I have a GTX460), but the odd thing is that I don't see any way that I can SLI these cards, nor do I see any power connectors of any kind on the board... The card in the link is a passive Zotac and I was looking at an EVGA, too, but didn't see anything on that one, either.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814500222
Anyone know how I would connect my SLI bridge?
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
Even if you did go down the SLi route, you can't SLi 2 different cards. You would need another GTX460.
You may be confused with AMD crossfire where you can use two cards from the same series eg 69xx - a 6970 and a 6950 would work together.
You may be confused with AMD crossfire where you can use two cards from the same series eg 69xx - a 6970 and a 6950 would work together.
Yeah, any card will do.
Ah OK. Well the GT430/GT440 I am looking at from EVGA or Zotac both run about €40. Maybe I can get a 2xx series that is even cheaper than that...Camm wrote:
You don't need to SLi a second card to run a monitor off of it. If you're just needing to output HD res, you won't need a massive card. Something old will do. I'm pretty sure an 8400gs would be fine. I was running a 1600x1200 CRT off of one aloneCapnNismo wrote:
So I'm looking into buying a second, cheap GPU so I can drive my 3 monitors and HDTV in the next room at the same time. Goal would be to simply have monitor #2 cloned onto the HDTV so that way I don't have to constantly turn the one monitor off and switch the HDTV on via Windows Control Panel. Looking at the GT430 (I have a GTX460), but the odd thing is that I don't see any way that I can SLI these cards, nor do I see any power connectors of any kind on the board... The card in the link is a passive Zotac and I was looking at an EVGA, too, but didn't see anything on that one, either.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814500222
Anyone know how I would connect my SLI bridge?
I thought with Nvidia you could do that and have one card be a PhysX card while the other did the grunt work.Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
Even if you did go down the SLi route, you can't SLi 2 different cards. You would need another GTX460.
You may be confused with AMD crossfire where you can use two cards from the same series eg 69xx - a 6970 and a 6950 would work together.
Cheers for the confirmation.FFLink wrote:
Yeah, any card will do.
But actually just one quick other question: what about the power connector? On none of these cards have I seen a connector to hook it up to the PSU anywhere... is that possible that it gets all the juice from the PCIe slot?
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Yes the GT430 (and similarly low end cards) do not need a power connector as they can gain sufficient power from the pcie slot.
And yes you can have a dedicated Physx card. However, this is not SLi, it is just having a dedicated Physx card (as such you don't need an SLi bridge, you just have to enable the card as Physx). You can certainly run monitors off a Physx capable card, however I'm not sure what impact that would have on your in-game physx performance. Also, there aren't a huge amount of games that support physx so unless you play these games regularly it's not such a big deal and you can just run pretty much any card normally for your extra monitors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX#PhysX_in_video_games
And yes you can have a dedicated Physx card. However, this is not SLi, it is just having a dedicated Physx card (as such you don't need an SLi bridge, you just have to enable the card as Physx). You can certainly run monitors off a Physx capable card, however I'm not sure what impact that would have on your in-game physx performance. Also, there aren't a huge amount of games that support physx so unless you play these games regularly it's not such a big deal and you can just run pretty much any card normally for your extra monitors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX#PhysX_in_video_games