Well crap, I apparently forgot to hit submit last night.
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p4inkill3r
It really depends on what you want to spend and what you want to accomplish.
If you want to spend a couple hundred dollars, you could upgrade mobo/cpu and get a little more performance.
If you want to spend <$100, buy a nice big air cooler and overclock your chip some.
There's nothing out now that would be a transcendent move upwards from your 1090; wait for Zen or Skylake next year.
I'd rather not spend anything if I don't have to as I need to get a new car for my wife, were having a baby in June, and I have a number of house projects to finish by then. But I have also accepted the fact that I will need to spend the money to get a better performing computer either now or in the near future. Given what you have to say about having a transcendant move in performance, I suspect that spending will come more towards next year rather than this year and instead OC the current chip and leave it running the OC.
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Redwoodz
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Originally Posted by
p4inkill3r
It really depends on what you want to spend and what you want to accomplish.
If you want to spend a couple hundred dollars, you could upgrade mobo/cpu and get a little more performance.
If you want to spend <$100, buy a nice big air cooler and overclock your chip some.
There's nothing out now that would be a transcendent move upwards from your 1090; wait for Zen or Skylake next year.
His sig rig states a Megahelems,if that is current it should do the job. To be honest the new instruction sets in current cpu's can make a big difference. i just came from a 960X6 Phenom II to a dual core APU on a ssd boot drive. The quickness is very good with just a $40 APU. kind of depends on what the PC is used for specifacally. I also had an X6 on the Asus 880 chipset that would black screen often. Changed basic systen to a new $45 CU has shwne remarkeable gains in productivity.
I would suspect, and this is nothing against the APUs as they definitely have a place in the market, that the speediness is more about the SSD. I have been using SSD boot drives in every PC I build for family ever since my first one in 08/09. My wife has a very plain desktop with a little LGA1155 Celeron in it that has an SSD and it performs much nicer than her mobile i5 without SSD. That all said, when I finally get around to a media center PC its going to be an APU.
Sorry to hear about your black screen issues, the X6s are nice. I have had a few peculiar issues with mine but nothing that has caused real problems like that, just about 4 unwanted manual restarts in 5 years.
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PontiacGTX
Whats your budget?
Are you going to. Buy a dual gpu setup?
What games do you play?
Is this for working aswell?
Budget is flexible. It all depends what the best performance gain per dollar is. Whether that means just a CPU, a CPU+Motherboard, or even CPU+Motherboard+RAM.
I unfortunately have not been intrgued by many games lately so most of what I have my 280X handles just fine as it is. But to list the main games: WoW, GTA, Supreme Commander 2, ME Series, Battlefield series (not 4), CoD series (up to MW2), Far Cry, Tomb Raider, etc... Oh and the obligatory....Crysis.
I do work on this as well. I have 5 different VMs that I use from time to time but have 1 or 2 that I would like to leave run 24/7 and not feel an impact from if possible.
If/When I upgrade next I will likely get a second (and possibly third) 280X depending on what is out at that point.
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p4inkill3r
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Redwoodz
His sig rig states a Megahelems,if that is current it should do the job. To be honest the new instruction sets in current cpu's can make a big difference. i just came from a 960X6 Phenom II to a dual core APU on a ssd boot drive. The quickness is very good with just a $40 APU. kind of depends on what the PC is used for specifacally. I also had an X6 on the Asus 880 chipset that would black screen often. Changed basic systen to a new $45 CU has shwne remarkeable gains in productivity.
Megahelems should work, yes.
I ran a 1065t on 890FX for a few months and it was a solid performer, I think he could still enhance what he has not and sandbag for 2016.
The Megahalems is current. And the two delta fans that are on it are server fans that push 150CFM each. Back when I was benching it I was at 48C on air at 4.0. Just never had a need to run it at its OC back then. I guess times have changed enough that I need to run it with an OC now.