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So AMD have released their own list of VR-ready CPUs...

r00x
Adventurer
Thoughts? This doesn't come from Oculus, it comes from AMD themselves:

FX-9590
FX-9370
FX-8370
FX-8350
FX-6350
A10-7890K
A10-7870K
Athlon X4 880K
Athlon X4 870K

Link (can't seem to find direct AMD link though) : http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2016/02/10/these-are-the-cpus-amd-suggests-for-building-v...
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Percy1983
Superstar
You know overclocking done right gives speed and stability.

I still remember my intel e4300, clocked from 1.8ghz to 3.24Ghz, I haven't beat such an increase on anything else since.
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H4TE
Expert Protege
"cybereality" wrote:
"hatec0re" wrote:
5GHZ, do it.

I've played with overclocking before, but I think I'm done with it. Right now, I much rather prefer stability than anything, and I don't have a problem with performance for most any game so there is not a real need.


It was meant as a joke. 😉

But sadly thats the price for more cores...

Im pumped for the new 6950x, but i doubt it will be offer any decent OC potential due to even more cores.

Trytiped
Adventurer
"EliteSPA" wrote:
Everybody is using that "VR Ready" logo on their hardware, is just marketing.... I dont like AMD, never did, and never will.

Its more drivers compability then hardware, lot of videos showing AMD hardware against nVidia and almost 80% of the benchmarks wins the nVidia or Intel.

Nvidia and Intel are the kings.

AMD & ATI had good times in the past, but for own exp I think they lost the boat.


Tell some legitimate benchmarks are released along with being tested by users, I would have to say this statement is absolutely correct.

r00x
Adventurer
"hatec0re" wrote:
"cybereality" wrote:
"hatec0re" wrote:
5GHZ, do it.

I've played with overclocking before, but I think I'm done with it. Right now, I much rather prefer stability than anything, and I don't have a problem with performance for most any game so there is not a real need.


It was meant as a joke. 😉

But sadly thats the price for more cores...

Im pumped for the new 6950x, but i doubt it will be offer any decent OC potential due to even more cores.


It probably will be less than "smaller" chips, but worth a go in my opinion. I do get more mileage out of my 5820K by overclocking it - some apps/games are still bound to just one or two threads and overall the single-thread performance of this chip isn't stratospherically greater than much cheaper processors. It runs rock solid at 4GHz (stock was 3.3 nominal, 3.6 turbo) which I'm happy with. I don't believe I'm doing anything with voltages either; honestly can't remember for sure, once I got it all set up I've hardly been into the BIOS since.

They also don't seem to get as hot (anywhere near as hot) for a given workload. Running Elite:Dangerous in VR on my old 3570K (also circa 4GHz) is a far toastier experience than on this machine. In fact doing just about anything is a far toastier experience on the old hardware.

FokkerFace
Explorer
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7603224

AMD R9 Fury X + AMD FX-9590 + 16GB DDR4 1600MHz running 64-bit Windows 10 Pro on a GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 4.0) beats Oculus Rift recommended spec Gaming PC on a Futuremark benchmark score: 10568 vs 9271.

I actually should reinstall fresh win10 after swapping GPU, since I can see a lot of nvidia processes still run in a background, though NVIDIA card is removed.
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Anonymous
Not applicable
"Mike1" wrote:
I dropped AMD with the Athlon 64 back in 2004, and have not looked backed since. The i5,i7 CPU's absolutely destroy anything AMD has by a long shot for gaming. Zen could change things but i wouldnt hold my breathe for it, AMD also has shady marketing practices imo.. at least for their GPU's


I had one of these too. Suffice to say, I've never bought an AMD processor since...

FokkerFace
Explorer
And I've dropped Intel in 2002, last CPU was FC-PGA Celeron 800MHz. What exactly have we learned from this?
I know that AMD have failed with K5, and Intel failed with their NetBurst+RDRAM Pentium 4, and I know both companies made good things as well. Why the fanboyism? Intel has some good CPUs, AMD has some good CPUs, ARM has some good CPUs, as well as NVIDIA, Apple, Samsung, Cyrix, Motorola, Qualcomm etc.
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