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General Category => Off the Record => Computer Affairs => Topic started by: DontSayBanana on June 28, 2016, 07:48:34 PM

Title: DSB's Computer Gets a New Lease on Life (And a New Thread)!
Post by: DontSayBanana on June 28, 2016, 07:48:34 PM
New CPU time!  Just upped from an AMD Phenom II X4 945T to an AMD FX-8350 Black Edition.  8 cores at 4 GHz, it's glorious.  But it's also been done for a reason.  I haven't been super-talkative about it, but I'm kinda into the VR thing that's been going on with the techies, have a Rift DK2, and the CPU was becoming the bottleneck- Oculus put out firmware that wouldn't let you install the runtime software without a CPU that supported SSE 4.2, so I had to go with a Bulldozer CPU or my Rift would basically be a $500 paperweight.

Today's episode brought to you by the knowledge that you shouldn't go cheap on a motherboard because you never know when you'll want to upgrade; I got lucky that there was still some life left in the selection of processors for an AM3+ socket.
Title: Re: DSB's Computer Gets a New Lease on Life (And a New Thread)!
Post by: viper37 on June 29, 2016, 02:12:12 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on June 28, 2016, 07:48:34 PM
Today's episode brought to you by the knowledge that you shouldn't go cheap on a motherboard because you never know when you'll want to upgrade;
and people laugh at my hardware choices! ha! :D