Evetech AMD upgrade Kit, wotth while?

CataclysmZA said:
^^ For perspective, a Tegra X1, Nvidia's latest low-power SoC, outruns or at best matches the graphical performance of a GTX 280.
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I'll believe it when I see it. The Tegra X1 will have vastly lower memory bandwidth than a GTX 280. It also depends on how they configure the Tegra X1 - I imagine there are variants designed to be used in lower and higher power scenarios.

EDIT: Go with Takealot. Free shipping, low prices and good service. You know you will have to assemble the components yourself right?
 
Ancalagon said:
I'll believe it when I see it. The Tegra X1 will have vastly lower memory bandwidth than a GTX 280. It also depends on how they configure the Tegra X1 - I imagine there are variants designed to be used in lower and higher power scenarios.

EDIT: Go with Takealot. Free shipping, low prices and good service. You know you will have to assemble the components yourself right?
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Jip Ive done that a few times before. I know enough to be dangerous :D im sure theres plenty of youtube videos that can help.

I cant find any real difference, other than cpu support, between H87 and H97. Am I missing something?
 
jouda said:
Jip Ive done that a few times before. I know enough to be dangerous :D im sure theres plenty of youtube videos that can help.

I cant find any real difference, other than cpu support, between H87 and H97. Am I missing something?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150

Not much difference, but they do have support for Haswell CPUs out the box, and might be upgradeable to Broadwell CPUs (although this is not definite).
 
jouda said:
Jip Ive done that a few times before. I know enough to be dangerous :D im sure theres plenty of youtube videos that can help.

I cant find any real difference, other than cpu support, between H87 and H97. Am I missing something?
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A baseline H81 mobo will kick butt if you are jammed for cash. My good ol' MSI H61 mobo is going strong for 3 years now and the board with my Core i5 2400 can handle all the latest games. The cash I saved on not going high-end was put towards a console for those other games we don't get on PC.
 
Fox1 said:
A baseline H81 mobo will kick butt if you are jammed for cash. My good ol' MSI H61 mobo is going strong for 3 years now and the board with my Core i5 2400 can handle all the latest games. The cash I saved on not going high-end was put towards a console for those other games we don't get on PC.
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Go for B85 at minimum, because of the greater upgradeability.
 
Ancalagon said:
I'll believe it when I see it. The Tegra X1 will have vastly lower memory bandwidth than a GTX 280. It also depends on how they configure the Tegra X1 - I imagine there are variants designed to be used in lower and higher power scenarios.
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You're correct about memory bandwidth, that's not going to be improved in X1 anytime soon. Still, floating-point performance is very slightly higher, though there's no benchmark out there to compare the two properly. I shouldn't have confused that with GPU performance.

jouda said:
I cant find any real difference, other than cpu support, between H87 and H97. Am I missing something?
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Mainly the fact that many more H97 boards come with M.2 ports and Intel networking chips. Other than that, there's not much to differentiate them.

Ancalagon said:
and might be upgradeable to Broadwell CPUs (although this is not definite).
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Broadwell for socketed systems on the desktop was cancelled last year. The next Intel CPU launch will be Skylake with DDR4 for the mainstream consumer.
 
Sorry for keeping this thread alive with questions but I need one last bit of advice. RAM!

DDR3 1333 vs DDR3 1600 vs DDR3 1866? From what Ive seen 1600 should be more than adequate, am I right?

Looking at Corsair Value Select A - 8GB DDR3 DRAM Desktop Memory - 1600Mhz for R 942 vs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer DDR3 1600 Gaming Memory - 8GB - Red & Green LED at R 1268, why would I pay R300 more (just for lights???)? I know the Croshair value select RAM is not on the list of supported RAM on the ASUS website, is that a problem?

http://www.takealot.com/corsair-value-select-a-8gb-ddr3-dram-desktop-memory-1600mhz/PLID32582995
http://www.takealot.com/crucial-bal...r-ddr3-1600-gaming-memory-8gb-re/PLID30709141

EDIT: I miss the days where I just had to choose how much Hynix RAM chips I needd
 
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CataclysmZA said:
Broadwell for socketed systems on the desktop was cancelled last year. The next Intel CPU launch will be Skylake with DDR4 for the mainstream consumer.
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Where do you see that? As far as I can see, Broadwell K is on track for later this year, with Skylake following shortly afterwards.
 
DDR3 1600 is fine, so is value RAM unless you intend overclocking schite.

The other f-up is the R/$ has gone to schite so your money does not get you much these days. Was looking at some diy bundles on newegg earlier and I wanted to cry.
 
Ancalagon said:
Where do you see that? As far as I can see, Broadwell K is on track for later this year, with Skylake following shortly afterwards.
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This upcoming features list pretty much says it all:

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Originates from: http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-we-learned-about-intel-this-week/

The first two products mentioned are Broadwell at 14nm. They include Core M, Broadwell-U and Broadwell-Y, all mobile parts. Braswell is the Haswell architecture at 14nm. Skylake production is ramping up for the 2015 launch. So really, there's no reason for anyone to buy H97/Z97 boards assuming Broadwell compatibility, we're going straight to a Tock and DDR4 this year.
 
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CataclysmZA said:
This upcoming features list pretty much says it all:

roadmap_large.png

Originates from: http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-we-learned-about-intel-this-week/

The first two products mentioned are Broadwell at 14nm. They include Core M, Broadwell-U and Broadwell-Y, all mobile parts. Braswell is the Haswell architecture at 14nm. Skylake production is ramping up for the 2015 launch. So really, there's no reason for anyone to buy H97/Z97 boards assuming Broadwell compatibility, we're going straight to a Tock and DDR4 this year.
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http://wccftech.com/intel-launching-skylakes-unlocked-broadwell-q2-2015/

Note Broadwell K on the roadmap on the top.

Look, even if it is coming, I would probably not bother with buying a Broadwell motherboard because Skylake is so close behind.
 
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