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You must have tons of money laying around. You remind me of this rich dude I know who bought a 980x, 12GB of memory, a 5870, and a $300 mobo...and hasn't yet put it together (it's been a year).
You must have tons of money laying around. You remind me of this rich dude I know who bought a 980x, 12GB of memory, a 5870, and a $300 mobo...and hasn't yet put it together (it's been a year).
Wow so much angry posts
Funny how i'm not [H] for blowing up processors through overclocks
Wow so much angry posts
Funny how i'm not [H] for blowing up processors through overclocks
And yet I bought another one
AMD forever!
And yet I bought another one
AMD forever!
I went from a Athlon X2 to a Athlon II X3 to a Phenom II X2 to my current Phenom II X6 over the last 3 years.
I overclocked every single one of them the instant they were installed with voltages up to 1.6, speeds up to 4 gig and countless hours of Prime95. Not to mention countless hours of gaming. Even used the stock cooler on the first 2 Athlons. Never had any problems at all.
So yeah, Intel spanks AMD in terms of performance but Ill go to the mat with AMD procs on durability anyday.
There is a video out there which I used to reference sometimes during the Pentium 4 / Athlon days. Toms Hardware tested catastrophic cooling system failure by removing the cooling from Pentium III, IV, and Athlon based systems. The Pentium III locked up but was undamaged. The Pentium IV throttled and continued to operate without cooling. Once the cooling was placed back on the CPU, it ramped the clocks back up and ran normally. The Athlon smoked reaching temperatures around 500F or higher.
First off, CPUs are one of the hardest components to actually kill whether you are overclocking or not. I've run insane amounts of voltages through AMD and Intel CPUs, in fact enough to seriously damage motherboards (and sometimes have) and yet, I've never killed a CPU overclocking it.
With all the 1100T's you've bought, you could have bought a much faster Core i7 970 by now.
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Hard to argue with that.
You guys are swaying me over to the Intel side of the force one thread at a time. Hopefully Bulldozer comes out before I finally convert. May be too late. Have caught myself browsing the Z68 motherboards at Newegg a couple times lately.
I left AMD almost 3 years ago. It was so hard to resist C2d and C2Q . And now the i5-i7 line-up. Are you kidding me? These things are amazing chips.
I loved my years with AMD in the late 90s till mid 2000s, but Intel has blown things away for what they have been doing the last 5-6 years.
Come to the DARK side....... comeeeeeeeeeee....
Still rather have an Intel LGA cpu. I have never bent the pins on one. Different story with amd (and intel)'s regular ZIF socket.
Hard to argue with that.
You guys are swaying me over to the Intel side of the force one thread at a time. Hopefully Bulldozer comes out before I finally convert. May be too late. Have caught myself browsing the Z68 motherboards at Newegg a couple times lately.
That's hilarious, by the time he puts it together mid range components will be just as good.