Upgrade time for my kid brother 7950 vs 7970

[marco]

Originally Posted by leathart123

surely the am3 board can be upgraded to support a 8350 with a bios update

Its called "microcode updation" its in the bios settings for all/most boards.

[marco]

Originally Posted by Charliew87

Valid points, all of em.

And yes, I think that the review I showed was nvidia-angled but I think Linus's was very AMD-angled.

LOL yes Linus is very AMD angled, Ive been watching his vids for years now and can safely say hes a AMD fanboy through & through.

[Charliew87]

Originally Posted by marco

LOL yes Linus is very AMD angled, Ive been watching his vids for years now and can safely say hes a AMD fanboy through & through.

Yes, but today 2x 7950s (selling the games for €50) costs less than another 670 ftw. Im hoping nVidia understands this soon and lowers their prices too.

I have been kind of bothered in his reviews when its too obvious tho. I really liked the guy when I only watched case-reviews but as soon as performance came into the picture all you heard was "intel this" and "amd that".

All in all I have the unique opportunity to compare intel+nvidia vs amd+amd since my brother and I build rigs of different brands.



And strangely,. even tho Im an Intel sorta guy, I have actually felt his computer has an overall better feel to it. I know its a shitty explanation, but if the FX-8350 works as well as his 965 has, Im probaby going to have to try their new releases .

[Rich_]

I'd take 120hz over triple any day tbh.

Never noticed linus as an amd fan, always kinda figured he was an nvidia guy especially considering when he did his personal build video series, it contained Intel CPU and gtx 480 sli, and he was kind enough to put them under water. That was a couple years back though.

that ''better feel'' on ur bro's pc, does he have an SSD and you use a regular hard drive? Cuz i went from 1055t phenom 6 core to i73770k early january, and man what a difference, and not in favor of the amd chip lol.

[Charliew87]

Originally Posted by Rich_

I'd take 120hz over triple any day tbh.

Never noticed linus as an amd fan, always kinda figured he was an nvidia guy especially considering when he did his personal build video series, it contained Intel CPU and gtx 480 sli, and he was kind enough to put them under water. That was a couple years back though.

that ''better feel'' on ur bro's pc, does he have an SSD and you use a regular hard drive? Cuz i went from 1055t phenom 6 core to i73770k early january, and man what a difference, and not in favor of the amd chip lol.

But the 3770k is twice the price :P So thats not very strange.

We use SSDs both of us ofcourse, same brand (intel 330). Same RAM at the same(ish) frequency, I use a 2500k@4.4ghz and he uses a phenom965@3.9ghz. I try to keep our rigs as much alike as possible to be able to make fair comparisons. Atm hes stuck at older cpu+mobo tech tho, but most like Ill be going Haswell and he'll be going steamroller on release, which will once again make benchmarking pretty interesting.


Im using a 120hz monitor atm, but thinking of going 21x9. In short because tripple monitor play at 2gb vram wont be great, but 21x9 shouldnt matter much. And when I do he'll be granted my 120hz, so we can have a nice comparison too .


He got one of his friends interested in building too, yesterday he linked the build he'd gone with... a 660ti that cost 10% more than a 7950ghz edition... an intel i5-2320 (about €10 less than 3570k), an ASRock FATALITY mobo (because overclocking is important on i5s -.-), 900W psu, 1333mhz RAM and no SSD... Some people need to learn to read forums.

[son of spanner]

i have to say amd is very good for the money i just got a hd 7950 for my new build got mine for 200 pounds the last card i got was a hd6970 and my new card is cheaper and blows 6970,s doors off dont get me worng i like nvidia cards but thay just cost too much money