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One other thing I dont get. I was checking AMD/Intel CPU info and in the info AMD got beat Intel on every side. But yet why in the performance wise Intel win in the real world work. I mean Intel shouldn't win even in one core operation but it does. Btw I have no Idea what L2 & L3 cache is.


AMD:


Frequency: around 4


Total L2 Cache: 8MB(1MB per core)


L3 Cache:8MB (shared L3)


Memory:Up to DDR3 1866


Intel:


Frequency: around 3.50 GHz


L3 Cache:6MB (shared L3)


Memory:Up to DDR3 1600


 




Oh if you're planning on quad Crossfire or SLI then get a 1500W PSU!




I don't have any intention of CF or SLI.


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You're making the mistake of comparing CPUs by frequency and cache size. Put simply (and therefore a little incorrectly), the amount of "work" that can be done in a single "core" in a single CPU cycle is not the same if you have 2 cores with different architecture. Easy example, AMD uses something called CPU modules. Each module they claim is 2 CPUs because most of the work it does is done as 2 CPUs. However, during certain workloads (specifically floating point work) that 2 CPU module will only work as 1 CPU because the two cores share some components. Intel doesn't do this at all which makes it hard to compare the 2 CPUs by frequency alone. As for cache size there's pros and cons to larger caches. The larger the cache the more likely it will be that the data you want is in there. However, it will also take longer to search the cache. If your data isn't in the cache, you'll have to wait for the whole cache to be searched before going to main memory to fetch the instructions you need. As for maximum memory speed... meh. Most people use 1333MHz DDR3 (as in non-enthusiast-buy-a-dell people). High frequency memory gives you a very small performance boost and shouldn't be your first priority.

All of this is covered in the guide.

Go with the recommendations you received earlier in the thread, they're good.

As for PSU, 650W sounds good. If you're planning to upgrade the graphics card and/or overclock maybe 750W. If you're going for Intel, note that Devil's Canyon CPUs have been getting pretty good reviews. I haven't put these in the guide yet so you'll have to find them yourself. I don't know how much extra they cost over their Haswell counterparts though.

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You're making the mistake of comparing CPUs by frequency and cache size. Put simply (and therefore a little incorrectly), the amount of "work" that can be done in a single "core" in a single CPU cycle is not the same if you have 2 cores with different architecture. Easy example, AMD uses something called CPU modules. Each module they claim is 2 CPUs because most of the work it does is done as 2 CPUs. However, during certain workloads (specifically floating point work) that 2 CPU module will only work as 1 CPU because the two cores share some components. Intel doesn't do this at all which makes it hard to compare the 2 CPUs by frequency alone. As for cache size there's pros and cons to larger caches. The larger the cache the more likely it will be that the data you want is in there. However, it will also take longer to search the cache. If your data isn't in the cache, you'll have to wait for the whole cache to be searched before going to main memory to fetch the instructions you need. As for maximum memory speed... meh. Most people use 1333MHz DDR3 (as in non-enthusiast-buy-a-dell people). High frequency memory gives you a very small performance boost and shouldn't be your first priority.

All of this is covered in the guide.

Go with the recommendations you received earlier in the thread, they're good.

As for PSU, 650W sounds good. If you're planning to upgrade the graphics card and/or overclock maybe 750W. If you're going for Intel, note that Devil's Canyon CPUs have been getting pretty good reviews. I haven't put these in the guide yet so you'll have to find them yourself. I don't know how much extra they cost over their Haswell counterparts though.

 

 

 

 

 

Thnx . I almost missed Devil's Canyon & it would have been sad if I did. Since i7-4790k is just an awesome processor & the price is about the same as the i7-4770k . But the i5-4690k is not much of an improvement over the Last one. But do u need z97 boards to support Devil's Canyon?? All I know about z97 board is that its for 5th Gen & I used to think Extreme Eddition is 5th Gen now I am not so sure. Since In Extreme Eddition there is also Ivy Bridge-E , Sandy Bridge-E & the one named Haswell-E suppose to be coming soon. So, Do u need 97 boards to support Devil's Canyon which Intel has labelled as 4th gen.

 


 

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yeah it does but it depends on if the bios/efi will support the devils canyon chips and also if it does i know someone on youtube took a gigabyte board that was z87 and it cooked the devils canyon chip to 1.5volts which is a no no on a evga z97 its like 1.3 which is normal. i built an amd fx 6300 which is piledriver which is an redone bulldozer chip and it works better than bulldozer


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i know someone on youtube took a gigabyte board that was z87 and it cooked the devils canyon chip to 1.5volts which is a no no on a evga z97 its like 1.3 which is normal

 

 

Maybe my Eng is terrible but I quite didnt get what u meant. did u mean even if I use z87 board which do support Devil's Canyon it still cant take full advantages of Devil's Canyon.

 

i built an amd fx 6300 which is piledriver which is an redone bulldozer chip and it works better than bulldozer

 

 

what is piledriver. AFAIK there is no such CPU named bulldozer anymore there is only FX series CPU which uses modified bulldozer  architecture.

 

 

Without avisynth filtering, while using multithreading to utilize all 8 cores my AMD FX-8150 encodes at up to 400fps; that means it encoded an anime episode in less than 40 seconds.

 

 

Koby I know your CPU is much better than mine. But it shouldn't be 100x better,should it!! I mean when I encode a video the max its getting 10fps & 100% CPU usage. I also tried using MT filter(dont know if it worked or not.).http://minus.com/i/EhxEuWq0L2gK

 

 

 

BTW is 2011 socket only for intel Extreme edition??  Also is Extreme edition is a separate CPU category of intel which focuses on maximum performance & Xeon for server ??

 

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Well what Koby said was kinda misleading about FPS. Depends on what type of encoder, what filters, what plugins, etc etc etc


 


For example I can brag I can encode over 500FPS as well using my GPU. As I last recall, Nvidia has dedicated x264 hardware encoder so it should be blazing fast on paper...


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I normally average >1fps over 6 cores because fuck progress.

Also is Extreme edition is a separate CPU category of intel which focuses on maximum performance & Xeon for server ??

Intel Extreme is aimed at high end desktop users that need something to throw money at. It's the final step before going to the more expensive Xeon processors. The Xeon processors are normally reserved for high-end workstations and servers.

Keep in mind that AMD also has a server line called Opteron (which I know nothing about because I'm an intel fanboy~).

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the fx chips like the 6100 are bulldozer architecture the fx 6300 is is a evolution upgrade of the bulldozer is called piledriver. depending on the motherboard and the manufacture the z87 maybe able to support the devils canyon intel haswell chips but it can put to much voltage through the chip if they screw something in the bios. so its better to get a z97 board so u can support the devils canyon chip you can put in the z87 based haswels in the z97 and the future broadwells also in the z97


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depending on the motherboard and the manufacture the z87 maybe able to support the devils canyon intel haswell chips but it can put to much voltage through the chip if they screw something in the bios. so its better to get a z97 board so u can support the devils canyon chip you can put in the z87 based haswels in the z97 and the future broadwells also in the z97

...The fact that some guy on YouTube fried his CPU by overvolting just happened to have a z87 board means nothing. Any motherboard can overvolt like that; it's a key part of overclocking.

I don't know why anyone would be going with the 8 series at this point. If you're buying new, the only option should be the 9 series.

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Well what Koby said was kinda misleading about FPS. Depends on what type of encoder, what filters, what plugins, etc etc etc

 

For example I can brag I can encode over 500FPS as well using my GPU. As I last recall, Nvidia has dedicated x264 hardware encoder so it should be blazing fast on paper...

Eh, with MeGUI and multithreading with no filters or with handbrake which can multithread by default...

 

Anyhow; with a fully scripted avisynth script full of slow filters and multithreading I get around 35fps.

While without multithreading with the same filter script I'd get around 2-4 fps. So it's still a big difference between multithreading and not.

 

There is likely to be faster filters available now then what I use though because I haven't updated stuff in a few years.

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depending on the motherboard and the manufacture the z87 maybe able to support the devils canyon intel haswell chips but it can put to much voltage through the chip if they screw something in the bios. so its better to get a z97 board so u can support the devils canyon chip you can put in the z87 based haswels in the z97 and the future broadwells also in the z97

...The fact that some guy on YouTube fried his CPU by overvolting just happened to have a z87 board means nothing. Any motherboard can overvolt like that; it's a key part of overclocking.

I don't know why anyone would be going with the 8 series at this point. If you're buying new, the only option should be the 9 series.

 

 

he was testing the f9 bios that added support to that gigabyte board and for some reason it put the voltage and 1.5 and he did not touch anything else it was running all stock settings

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depending on the motherboard and the manufacture the z87 maybe able to support the devils canyon intel haswell chips but it can put to much voltage through the chip if they screw something in the bios. so its better to get a z97 board so u can support the devils canyon chip you can put in the z87 based haswels in the z97 and the future broadwells also in the z97

...The fact that some guy on YouTube fried his CPU by overvolting just happened to have a z87 board means nothing. Any motherboard can overvolt like that; it's a key part of overclocking.

I don't know why anyone would be going with the 8 series at this point. If you're buying new, the only option should be the 9 series.

 

I am just clarifying some of the things that was bothering me for sometimes now & which didn't understand just from Manufactured Web Info. If I do manage to buy Devil's Canyon or Haswell I probably will buy MSI Gaming 3 it has only 2 PCI-E but I dont have any plans of Crossfire so... Is there any other MoBoard good other than this within price??

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