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March 29, 2017 at 8:43 pm #5652
Wheels-Of-Fire
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I just replaced the ageing 2X HD5770 graphics card setup in my PC with a single ASUS RX 480 Dual OC and thought i’d share my experiance. First off its between 4 and 5 times faster on everything ! My PC is now faster than 70%+ of systems in 3DMark. I was worried the i7 930@4 GHZ may hold it back but the steam VR test shows no restrictions and zero dropped frames making my score “good”. Doom now plays at blistering speed with the Vulkan patch at 1080 in Ultra detail. All in all amazing for the reduced price of £169+VAT. The X58 mobo soldiers on !
March 29, 2017 at 10:42 pm #5657
Dave Rice
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Steve still has his i7 9XX running games just fine.

I recently inherited one from an ex CAD user who’d donated it to his student daughter. When the HDDs died they decided it was time to move to a laptop.

As expected it deals with decoding 16 x 1080P CCTV cameras without breaking sweat, so it’s sat as a hot spare at one of my customers.
March 29, 2017 at 10:56 pm #5659
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Yep my i7 920 is just remarkable, I put a gtx 970 in it about 2 years ago, but thought a cpu overhaul would be needed, but alas the old girl just keeps trucking at 3.8GHz. I could never get a stable 4GHz on air out of it. Also the i5 750 is just as good and I gan get a solid 4.2 out of that.

Intel made a somthing really special with the first gen ‘core i’ chips.

That RX480 is a great card, so much performance for the money. I bought one, never installed it and returned it when it eventually turned up as the courier really took the pee, and i between that shipping and arriving I bought the gtx 970. So had to return it, as I have her The 480 was £260 and the 970 £300, so one had to go back before the wife seen the almost £600 gaming hole in the bank account.

I’ll be sad the day the i7 dies. Though in city building games it does show its age as they grow large.

I think PM still has a 920 too.
March 30, 2017 at 12:48 pm #5666
Louis
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I have a Q9550 with an HD7870… Still on the original Asus P5 mobo. Waiting for Ryzen 5, and that R480 does look like a sorely tempting buy…
March 30, 2017 at 2:53 pm #5672
keith with the teef
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The er big gaming update comes to windows 10 and is being rolled out on April the 11th + other good stuff.

On the face of it it does nothing for a modern powerful system but I’m open hearted and cannot wait to find out and see if some titles are receptive. :good:
April 1, 2017 at 12:24 pm #5722
Wheels-Of-Fire
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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Intel touted the i7 930 as a direct replacement for the i7 920 with just a few manufacturing improvements. They sold it at an advertised speed of 2.9 GHz but in reality they will all hit at least 4 GHz. My example will run at 4.2 GHz with a large air cooler just buy selecting the performance profile in the Gigabyte BIOS and then upping the base clock. Unfortunatly my memory will not go above its rated speed of 1800 so if I raise the base clock above 180 then I have to drop the memory mltiplyer from X10 to X8 which is not ideal. As a compromise I run the CPU at 3.9 GHz but leave turbo boost enabled so it boosts to 4.1 GHz under load. On a side note if I enable the XMP memory profile it assumes the default base clock and so tries to run the memory at silly speeds causing the system to hang during boot.</p>
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