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Indeed. I really like my i3, but the next system will return to AMD, from whence I have built my systems since the early 2000s.
I'll keep the chip, just was wondering if it would be worth it to use for a little while.
if I had a 4300 and was given a 6300 then the 4300 would be on its way to a secondary machine, the 6300 is a much better chip.
The last Intel machine I build myself was a Pentium III 450, at that time a wonderful chip, fast, cool and with a late era Biostar mainboard rock solid, the machine after that was an AMD Duron 700, I still have that one, later on I was able to get a Duron 750 and the 850, that last chip was my fastest Duron and i never went back to Intel, Athlon, Athlon 64x2 Phenom II and FX 8350, that last one is my gaming machine, desktop machine is a AM1 Athlon 5350.
I never looked for the fastest machine, always looked at what I could get for a fixed budget, intel never was able to offer me anything which outperformed the AMD chip of the same price, mainboards even worse, the game rig has a Asus Sabertooth which is a high end board, and the Intel board equivalent would have been 100 Euro more expensive...
Was the 8350 the fastest chip when I bought it? Nope, it wasn't, was it faster than my previous machine by a large enough margin? YES, was and is it still capable of doing everything I need it to do and then some? YES, its been running for three years now and it is still everything I want and need from a machine, the bragging rights are too expensive for me, I rather go for sanity and with the extra money buy a huge ass graphics card.
The last Intel machine I build myself was a Pentium III 450, at that time a wonderful chip, fast, cool and with a late era Biostar mainboard rock solid, the machine after that was an AMD Duron 700, I still have that one, later on I was able to get a Duron 750 and the 850, that last chip was my fastest Duron and i never went back to Intel, Athlon, Athlon 64x2 Phenom II and FX 8350, that last one is my gaming machine, desktop machine is a AM1 Athlon 5350.
I never looked for the fastest machine, always looked at what I could get for a fixed budget, intel never was able to offer me anything which outperformed the AMD chip of the same price, mainboards even worse, the game rig has a Asus Sabertooth which is a high end board, and the Intel board equivalent would have been 100 Euro more expensive...
Was the 8350 the fastest chip when I bought it? Nope, it wasn't, was it faster than my previous machine by a large enough margin? YES, was and is it still capable of doing everything I need it to do and then some? YES, its been running for three years now and it is still everything I want and need from a machine, the bragging rights are too expensive for me, I rather go for sanity and with the extra money buy a huge ass graphics card.
if I had a 4300 and was given a 6300 then the 4300 would be on its way to a secondary machine, the 6300 is a much better chip.
The last Intel machine I build myself was a Pentium III 450, at that time a wonderful chip, fast, cool and with a late era Biostar mainboard rock solid, the machine after that was an AMD Duron 700, I still have that one, later on I was able to get a Duron 750 and the 850, that last chip was my fastest Duron and i never went back to Intel, Athlon, Athlon 64x2 Phenom II and FX 8350, that last one is my gaming machine, desktop machine is a AM1 Athlon 5350.
I never looked for the fastest machine, always looked at what I could get for a fixed budget, intel never was able to offer me anything which outperformed the AMD chip of the same price, mainboards even worse, the game rig has a Asus Sabertooth which is a high end board, and the Intel board equivalent would have been 100 Euro more expensive...
Was the 8350 the fastest chip when I bought it? Nope, it wasn't, was it faster than my previous machine by a large enough margin? YES, was and is it still capable of doing everything I need it to do and then some? YES, its been running for three years now and it is still everything I want and need from a machine, the bragging rights are too expensive for me, I rather go for sanity and with the extra money buy a huge ass graphics card.
OK I'll admit I didn't know that. I was judging by clock speed and was worried that the 3.5ghz clock speed of the 6300 would push my machine back a little.
Current graphics card is an R9 380 with 4 gig onboard ram
Was the 8350 the fastest chip when I bought it? Nope, it wasn't, was it faster than my previous machine by a large enough margin? YES, was and is it still capable of doing everything I need it to do and then some? YES, its been running for three years now and it is still everything I want and need from a machine, the bragging rights are too expensive for me, I rather go for sanity and with the extra money buy a huge ass graphics card.
Yeah, that sounds familiar. I've leaned towards AMD mostly for cpu's for a while. I think the last Intel chip I had was a blade style Pentium 2 233 back in the day. I upgraded to the FX8350 because I'd bought some software and didn't realise I only had a dual core back at the time. As long as it runs what I want adequately, that's fine for me
For the gpu's, I've varied a lot, but for the moment am using a R9-290. First card was a Trident, but I've had various Nvidias, a pair of Voodoo 2s, a Matrox G400. I think only one of the nvidia cards actually died on me though.
For my laptop, it's always been amd and it's currently an A8-4500 (with AMD HD7640).
One of the earliest cards i've used was a WD Paradise 8 bit VGA and it still sits inside the Philips NMS 9100 XT which is still working, the next machine was a 486 DX2 66Mhz and it had a Trident 9440 VESA card, later on a Pentium 100 with a S3 Virge graphics decelerator.. 
then a K6 233 with a Voodoo Rush card, which is a Tseng Labs 2d card with a Voodoo I board on top, then of course the Voodoo 2 and also Voodoo 3 after that I got the first Nvidia card a Geforce 2MX made by Hercules, beautiful little blue card, after that loads of other Nvidia's and then a HD 5770 Saphire VaporX then the 5870 Saphire vaporX, Asus 6970 ENORMOUS 3 slot card and now a Inno 3D GTX 780.
then a K6 233 with a Voodoo Rush card, which is a Tseng Labs 2d card with a Voodoo I board on top, then of course the Voodoo 2 and also Voodoo 3 after that I got the first Nvidia card a Geforce 2MX made by Hercules, beautiful little blue card, after that loads of other Nvidia's and then a HD 5770 Saphire VaporX then the 5870 Saphire vaporX, Asus 6970 ENORMOUS 3 slot card and now a Inno 3D GTX 780.
My first real PC was the 486dx2-66 (Later swapped out for a Pentium 83mhz overdrive). That is still sometimes in use as a win3.11/dos combination machine. I can't remember precisely which Trident it had, but it was a one meg video card.
As I recall, the pentium 233 was hooked up with the Matrox G400 for Direct 3d coupled with a two voodoo2 sli for the 3dfx side. Bit of a strange combination but it worked. After that, all AMDs, some K7s and K8s.
As for other GPUs, one of our Aldi PCs had an MX400. The Nvidia that failed on me was a GT9800. After that (and before my current card), I had a Sapphire AMD 5850. I think there's a list somewhere of the processors and graphics cards I've had, but I didn't particularly keep track of which motherboards I had.
As I recall, the pentium 233 was hooked up with the Matrox G400 for Direct 3d coupled with a two voodoo2 sli for the 3dfx side. Bit of a strange combination but it worked. After that, all AMDs, some K7s and K8s.
As for other GPUs, one of our Aldi PCs had an MX400. The Nvidia that failed on me was a GT9800. After that (and before my current card), I had a Sapphire AMD 5850. I think there's a list somewhere of the processors and graphics cards I've had, but I didn't particularly keep track of which motherboards I had.
Oh ffs Firefox.
I don't know if any of you use Firefox but it just auto updated on me and I lost all my customiztions and layout. I've just been farting around with that now and resetting things to how I used to have it.
Not happy Mozilla.
I don't know if any of you use Firefox but it just auto updated on me and I lost all my customiztions and layout. I've just been farting around with that now and resetting things to how I used to have it.
Not happy Mozilla.
its computer software, it happens, it's not the end of the world.
I know.. All sorted though now.. Mozbackup is a blessing.
Voodoo SLI, wanted that, was not able to afford that back then.. time does move on.. when we had the 486 it was a real WOW machine, it was so damn fast and smooth running and so on, I still have it and I have to say, it is still a fast machine as long you run the programs of that particular era on it..
Crusader No Remorse was one of my all time go to games. For the time it was such a fun game, and full of cheese. it ran really well on a DX2 66
But it also had the most awesome soundtrack.
I didn't get that back in the day (only the demo) but when it came up as a freebie on Origin, I grabbed it. - Yet to get around to playing it though
I didn't get that back in the day (only the demo) but when it came up as a freebie on Origin, I grabbed it. - Yet to get around to playing it though
The soundtrack is amazing.
I found a copy of the full soundtrack online.
Well, that's a different error message
A friend's old Dell kicked the bucket few days ago and he wanted something to replace it fast and preferably very cheap, the thing he wanted was something which was about as fast as the old Dell, quite easy the old Dell was a Q6600 socket 775 machine so old and not that fast..
After some messing around it became a AMD FM2+ machine with a cheap and cheerful Athlon x4 860K, an Asrock FM2+ board 8Gb RAM and the GTX 670 which someone had given him.
Also bought a new casing for that, a Bitfenix Neo, cheap and with enough room to fit it all, he had an okay PSU already, a 750 watt Coolermaster, build the machine, fitted the old DVD drive and the old HDD, Win7 booted up (Dell OEM) aaaand.. it just worked, didn't even nag about the computer not being a Dell, it just worked, installed drivers and so on and well, he's got a working machine, total cost including BeQuit heatsink around 260Euro.
After some messing around it became a AMD FM2+ machine with a cheap and cheerful Athlon x4 860K, an Asrock FM2+ board 8Gb RAM and the GTX 670 which someone had given him.
Also bought a new casing for that, a Bitfenix Neo, cheap and with enough room to fit it all, he had an okay PSU already, a 750 watt Coolermaster, build the machine, fitted the old DVD drive and the old HDD, Win7 booted up (Dell OEM) aaaand.. it just worked, didn't even nag about the computer not being a Dell, it just worked, installed drivers and so on and well, he's got a working machine, total cost including BeQuit heatsink around 260Euro.
Well done.....
I thought Dell would be sneaky SOBs and have some part of the OS tied to hardware like a TPM module or something.
