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Vulpesveritas, on 30 May 2012 - 06:35 AM, said:
If you're asking me to either stop giving people advice or stop telling the truth or stop recommending products of superior value, then no.
When I recommend someone an upgrade path, then another individual points out AMD has been having trouble competing in recent years as well as it used to, and I point out theres a chance AMD could strongly compete later this year, withot a motherboard upgrade, until haswell comes out next year, and may still compete on a price basis, that's 'going on about how great they are?' The math shows the possibility and it will largely come down to pricong and availability.
And the benchmarks show AMD GPUs to be faster at nearly every price point. Unless you didnt look at any in the last few months. Lol. Sadly Nvidia doesn't have supply on their hand and seem to be pushing advertising to push profit margins higher, but thats an assumption on my part based on what ive seen.
When I recommend someone an upgrade path, then another individual points out AMD has been having trouble competing in recent years as well as it used to, and I point out theres a chance AMD could strongly compete later this year, withot a motherboard upgrade, until haswell comes out next year, and may still compete on a price basis, that's 'going on about how great they are?' The math shows the possibility and it will largely come down to pricong and availability.
And the benchmarks show AMD GPUs to be faster at nearly every price point. Unless you didnt look at any in the last few months. Lol. Sadly Nvidia doesn't have supply on their hand and seem to be pushing advertising to push profit margins higher, but thats an assumption on my part based on what ive seen.
It isn't really an upgrade path if you have to change out your board continuously, even if it the same socket pin out. Over the last four year I've had to buy an AM2, AM2+, AM3 and AM3+ boards during AMD upgrades, and this wasn't even for my main rig. On the Intel side I've only had to buy one X58 board in the same time period.
Black Mamba, on 30 May 2012 - 06:58 AM, said:
AMD have a great mid-range set of graphic cards, however I have had some terrible driver problems with them in the past so i changed to Nvidia. But that's just me, others may be in good favour with AMD.
I made the opposite switch a little while ago and I'm happier on this side of the fence. AMD has really helped ATI's driver support, especially in the Linux department.
What struck me about AMD GPUs was their overall build quality, even down to the small stuff like selection of parts for the power supply in the cards.
Black Mamba, on 30 May 2012 - 06:58 AM, said:
CPU wise, most games these days don't take full advantage of quad cores, i blame consoles (but thats for another time, if ever). So either a mid-tier Bulldozer or a Sandy Bridge will do for gaming, and to make sure buy an aftermarket air-cooler and over clock it, cheapest way to increase performance. No need to spend on high end CPU's, they're just a waste of money for a gamer.
You can't blame that on consoles. If anything, it is PC's to blame. Check out console specs, they basically have all CPU and no GPU. The 360 has a triple core PPC clocked at 3.2GHz with a GPU similar to an ATI x1800; the PS3 has an eight core Cell processor clocked @ 3.2GHz and a GPU similar to a 7800GT.
