linksith wrote:the AMD FX 8150 is easily overclockable to about 4.2 GHz but one group had successfully overclocked it to 8 GHZ making it the fastest single CPU in the world for the general consumer.
[citation needed]
mh what's funny is any processor can be overclocked to any frequency (that the mainboard supports anyway) as long as the power supply can power it and the cooling system can cool it sufficiently enough. (Whoo! Liquid nitrogen!)
Having a processor with that high of a frequency clock is pretty redundant considering the fact that most consumer-level north/south bridges, memory, hard drives, and graphics cards (maybe) are not even close to being able to meet that power level (9001) and will thus bottleneck the processor. Either way, it's typically better to have more cores than more per-core processing power, unless, well, you have a lot of cores
and a lot of per-core processing power.
linksith wrote:additionally intel uses hyper threading on its i7 which means it is only a quad core physically but is a virtual 8 core; it acts like an 8 core but in reality is a 4 core. I think that if AMD used hyper threading on any of their CPU's then they could easily beat intel at anything. additionally i cant wait to see the results of their next generation of FX processors.
So what you're basically saying, or rather confirming here is that Intel's tech does indeed surpass that of AMD?
linksith wrote:I found it ironic in computer history that Intel and AMD actually worked together to beat the other CPU companies
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but in fact later became their own worst enemies.
Heh, just like Microsoft and Apple! @8o()
Marth8880 wrote:The graphics card works absolutely perfectly with star wars force unleashed 1 and 2 at their highest graphics and it plays battlefield 3 very nicely too. so dont say my card isnt fast enough
Your card isn't fast enough.
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In terms of benchmarks, your graphics card is the lesser of almost every other one of its kind. (Every one of its kind being every one in its "family" of GT 520s.)
Heh, by the way, don't ever attempt arguing that AMD is better than Intel with someone from a place such as Tom's Hardware (for example); you'll be vacuumed away, if that's a good enough way to put it.
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