The motherboard that never was?

[barnsley]

Meh. People underestimate the 83xx alot of the time.These aren't bulldozer cpus. Gaming you don't notice much (unless if said game doesn't have any form of cpu optimisation) and in streaming the 8 cores actually keep with the quad core i7s. TLDR for the price I'd go 8320 and a aftermarket cooler over a crappy low end i5 any day (heck thats what I did and seeing how crap the i5 3340 alternative was...).
AMD on a budget still makes sense. The 8350 is the most powerful AMD chip you should consider though.

The 9xxx are such a pain it usually costs more than it'd be worth to go down the intel route.

When I finally get my Pentium rig and my i7 rig running I'm going to be squirting out benchmarks left, right and centre. I'm even going to do a write up on performance in popular multi-player games .

 

[RamboOC]

Meh. People underestimate the 83xx alot of the time.These aren't bulldozer cpus. Gaming you don't notice much (unless if said game doesn't have any form of cpu optimisation) and in streaming the 8 cores actually keep with the quad core i7s. TLDR for the price I'd go 8320 and a aftermarket cooler over a crappy low end i5 any day (heck thats what I did and seeing how crap the i5 3340 alternative was...).
AMD on a budget still makes sense. The 8350 is the most powerful AMD chip you should consider though.

The 9xxx are such a pain it usually costs more than it'd be worth to go down the intel route.

When I finally get my Pentium rig and my i7 rig running I'm going to be squirting out benchmarks left, right and centre. I'm even going to do a write up on performance in popular multi-player games .

It would be funny if some of the games actually ran better with pentium k and 6 less cores. games like battlefield 3, 4 love multiple cores but at the same time some games dont utalize multiple cores proply and also like strong cores which intel has

 

[barnsley]

It would be funny if some of the games actually ran better with pentium k and 6 less cores. Multiplayer games love multiple cores but at the same time most games also like strong cores which intel has

Not going to lie I pretty much already know which games favour intel's stronger cores. DayZ and ARMA II really love a few strong cores for an example, as do pretty much all older games. Most games these days use atleast 4 cores now so my 8320 never struggled on any game. DayZ standalone was different however, but I think thats mainly down to it running a crap version of an engine that is poorly optimised at best.

-edit- Oh yeah, and according to other benchmarks out there, an overclocked pentium k beats/keeps up with an i7.

 

[SUPERFLY013]

Not going to lie I pretty much already know which games favour intel's stronger cores. DayZ and ARMA II really love a few strong cores for an example, as do pretty much all older games. Most games these days use atleast 4 cores now so my 8320 never struggled on any game. DayZ standalone was different however, but I think thats mainly down to it running a crap version of an engine that is poorly optimised at best.

-edit- Oh yeah, and according to other benchmarks out there, an overclocked pentium k beats/keeps up with an i7.

It goes to show that you don't have to spend loads of money to have a good computer.But it really does depend on what you are doing with it.

 

[Dicehunter]

-edit- Oh yeah, and according to other benchmarks out there, an overclocked pentium k beats/keeps up with an i7.

Links ?

 

[TPC]

A Pentium K is in single thread EXACTLY the same as an i7,i5 since its the same architecture

 

[barnsley]

Links ?

Here is scan's 'evidence'. I'll try and find the other reviews. they were all smaller sites though so I guess that is a factor. My theory is that if you're running a medium gpu (such as a 760/270x) the fps isn't that different as the gpu runs out of grunt before the CPU. I'll get benchmarks with my 780ti and my ol' 7870 as comparisons.

 

[Dicehunter]

A Pentium K is in single thread EXACTLY the same as an i7,i5 since its the same architecture

The Anniversary K is outdone when any of the other chips are overclocked, Every benchmark shows this.

The only bench it does well in vs a 4770K was PiFast but the 4770K is at stock and the K is at 4.40GHZ - http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/70977-intel-pentium-anniversary-edition-g3258/?page=3

Here is scan's 'evidence'. I'll try and find the other reviews. they were all smaller sites though so I guess that is a factor. My theory is that if you're running a medium gpu (such as a 760/270x) the fps isn't that different as the gpu runs out of grunt before the CPU. I'll get benchmarks with my 780ti and my ol' 7870 as comparisons.

Seems a tad odd to me, They all get the exact results.

But it seems like a good little chip for the money, I might swap out my heat and power draw monster of an 8350 for this 1 in my file server.

 

[barnsley]

All I'm hoping is that I can get decent clocks with my Pentium. I've never won the silicon lottery

 

[Dicehunter]

All I'm hoping is that I can get decent clocks with my Pentium. I've never won the silicon lottery

I shall pray to the Silicon and PC Gaming Master Race gods for you !!! ^_^

 

[TPC]

If you dont care about the lifespan of a chip you can do anything!

 

[shambles1980]

Oo
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1.53v?? can any 1 smell burning?

 

[Dicehunter]

If you dont care about the lifespan of a chip you can do anything!

You sir have huge ballls, I would never put that many volts through any chip

 

[TPC]

well I didnt do it its from a german pc site, they also made it just for the lols, they had also veeery bad temps like 45°c in idle and prime95 couldnt even get stsrted

 

[shambles1980]

my i5 only wants 1.48v to get to 5ghz 100% stable and can get there at lower volts but not 100% stable "asseto corsa will crash, benches and ibt run fine though"
Suffice to say however I do not run at 5ghz lol.

id maybe think of 1.4v for 2/47 but i prefer 1.35v
1.5v id be waiting for the magic smoke.

 

[RamboOC]

You sir have huge ballls, I would never put that many volts through any chip

I have done that mannny times the last time was 2 days ago when overclocking a pentium d 930 with a huge salon fan blowing onto the whole motherboard