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post #31 of 105
11/11/11 at 9:34am
Aside from the SB vs BD stuff, I would really reconsider that Creative Fatal1ty. Go for the Titanium HD instead, as it seems to miss a lot of the drivers problems of the per-W7 cards that Creative made.
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11/11/11 at 5:39pm
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Aside from the SB vs BD stuff, I would really reconsider that Creative Fatal1ty. Go for the Titanium HD instead, as it seems to miss a lot of the drivers problems of the per-W7 cards that Creative made.

noted, thankyou

ok ive decided to go for this lot


Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z Z68 Socket 1155 8 Channel

2500k

Corsair 8GB (2X4GB) DDR3 1866Mhz Red Vengeance

2x 6990s


thanks everyone you have all been very helpfull

jprovido plus 1 mate, thanks alot
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post #33 of 105
11/14/11 at 3:51pm
I have the FX-8120 with the ASUS Crosshair V Formula and they are great together. I would recommend that if you are going to go with the BD then get the 8120 seeing that the 8150 cant be OC'ed much more if at all then the 8120. I have had mine to 4.94GHz. Stable at 4.8GHz and even then the BD heats up like mad. I usually keep mine at 4.0Ghz for everyday use and 4.6Ghz for gaming sometime 4.8GHz. I haven't seen any 8150's run stable above 4.9Ghz. It gets way too hot after that. The Crosshair board is amazing and has tons of features. I love the BD personally but I admit that it should have been better. I have two 6790's paired with the 8120 and with the eyefinity I run BF3 on 1080p at around 60-70fps. Even though the BD should perform better than it does, it handles the games that I play great.

I used to have the MSI 990FXA GD-80 mobo with the 8120 and had a lot of problems with the chipset and drivers. I would not recommend that. Ever since I got the ASUS board its been running great and they just released a new BIOS update that has established better stability for the BD.

I dont know about the bottlenecking with two high end cards but I know with two 6790's it works great.

Hope I could have been of some help here.
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post #34 of 105
11/15/11 at 3:14pm
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After alot of reading to the point of having to put drops in my eye's, ive decided not to jump ship, ive been an AMD fan boi for 15 years 1 more won't hurt. Ive seen that driver's and updates could fix some of BD's problems and rev 2 could hopefully fix the high end GPU problem.

what is piledrive update?



mikezachlowe2004 thank you very much you alone changed my mind


so the plan from here is to build a high end, high budget AMD rig using 1100t & 1x 6970, better GPU's in the future, if AMD fixes current problems i will upgrade in the future.

also what sort of max stable oc can I expect from the 1100t these days, when they first came out I had 3 to test from 3 different batches, and the max stable oc i got was 1 @ 3.7, another @ 3.9 and the other @ 4.11, is it still about the same?


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post #35 of 105
11/15/11 at 3:36pm
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ok then lets say my budget for cpu, board and ram is around 1000 what should i get?

If you get an i5 2500k (215$), a high end board (250-300$), and about 8-16 gigs of decent 1.5v performance RAM (90-200$), you really shouldn't need to spend more than 700 maximum. After that, I would spend the remaining 300$ on awesome peripherals because you're gonna want those for a high end rig. I'd get a decent mechanical keyboard, a nice gaming mouse, a mouse pad and some decent speakers.

Really, for gaming, the i5 2500k is more than sufficient. Buy other stuff that will enhance your entire gaming experience instead of just dumping cash in one area.
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post #36 of 105
11/15/11 at 3:44pm
While bulldozer may be getting revised next year, you could get a awesome system now if you went with Intel. You don't need all those cores. You need speed. With watercooling even a closed loop system and a i5 2500k you will easily hit 5Ghz if you get a mainboard and ram that can handle it. The last build for a customer I did was with an i5 and H100. It was rocking 5Ghz like it was nobody's business and paried with a GTX 580 it just flew through games.

I'm trying to convince you to go ditch AMD but in the long run you will just be behind the curve especially if you are running 6990's if you go AMD for the CPU. It will bottleneck it. The reviews show that, real usage shows that and SB is clock for clock much faster then BD.

Just my 2 cents.
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post #37 of 105
11/15/11 at 3:57pm
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Im finding it realy hard to break away from AMD, its in the blood. i no that a 2500k will kick butt, my love for AMD is hard shed........ no no no im going to give AMD one more year.




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11/15/11 at 4:10pm
on an 1100t you should be able to get more of an overclock . the farthest i have taken my 1055t was 4.125 stable for 12 hours of prime @1.455v,again not my every day speed but was able to get there but was very hot close to 60c on air could do better on water but meh i like teh giant air coolers.
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11/15/11 at 4:23pm
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Im finding it realy hard to break away from AMD, its in the blood. i no that a 2500k will kick butt, my love for AMD is hard shed........ no no no im going to give AMD one more year.




Help me out here AMD fan boy's



They can't help you out unless they lie to you. The simple fact is that Bulldozer was a huge failure and you're making a big mistake by purchasing one.
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11/15/11 at 4:48pm
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They can't help you out unless they lie to you. The simple fact is that Bulldozer was a huge failure and you're making a big mistake by purchasing one.

i'm not going to get one right now, as i said i'm going to get a 1xx0t chip and upgrade in the future if amd sort it out.
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