MetalLobster
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Here ya go! A video on steps on determining whether you need more RAM or not, and RAM speeds.
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Khârn the Betrayer
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Alright so I talked to my friend.. he asked me to dxdiag and screen some shit and he said:
8gb of ram is in no way bad (as you guys said)
decent pagefile
your cpu is a dual by the looks of it
not a bad gfx card either
so yeah
cpu would be the most benificial upgrade
After proceeding to take screens of his dxdiag and we exchange PC porn he says the Athlon 2 x4 I have uses a AM3+ socket and to search for socket AM3+ CPU's. After annoying him with my stupidity and aspergers as I usually do, he did the search for me: http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Processors/AMD CPUs/FX (Piledriver) - Socket AM3+
Some 8 cores here, some are cheap too for 8 core CPU's. Apparently.
Edit: He says if it's AM3+ socket it should be fine, but it's also good to check if it's compatible with my motherboard (760GM-P21(FX) (MS-7641)) just to be sure.
8gb of ram is in no way bad (as you guys said)
decent pagefile
your cpu is a dual by the looks of it
not a bad gfx card either
so yeah
cpu would be the most benificial upgrade
After proceeding to take screens of his dxdiag and we exchange PC porn he says the Athlon 2 x4 I have uses a AM3+ socket and to search for socket AM3+ CPU's. After annoying him with my stupidity and aspergers as I usually do, he did the search for me: http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Processors/AMD CPUs/FX (Piledriver) - Socket AM3+
Some 8 cores here, some are cheap too for 8 core CPU's. Apparently.
Edit: He says if it's AM3+ socket it should be fine, but it's also good to check if it's compatible with my motherboard (760GM-P21(FX) (MS-7641)) just to be sure.
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http://ca.msi.com/support/mb/760GMP21_FX.html#support-cpu <- compatibility (zambezi = bulldozer, vishera = piledriver)
a CPU upgrade is definitely a good idea but I can't think of any reason you would need an 8-core CPU. more physical cores are definitely beneficial for many server, HPC and niche workstation applications (eg. video encoding) because those applications are developed for concurrency (to run in parallel). most of the applications/games we use are single-process so even though they use multithreading, they are not developed specifically for concurrency so a lot of the code is old-school serial and what matters for serial processing is clock speed.
Having said that, there is still a benefit to buying a 6 or 8 core CPU, and the benefit is that you are able to stress-test to isolate the performance of each individual core, shut down the laggards and run just the four fastest. It's basically like binning your own CPU. You could of course leave the cores running, but because of the stuff mentioned in the previous paragraph there's really no point because more active cores = more heat added and that means less clock speed, which you will want more of rather than less.
So, taking all that into consideration, the best value would be buying the most expensive FX you can afford, restricting it to the four fastest cores and bumping up the clock multiplier until you max out the cooler's potential.
a CPU upgrade is definitely a good idea but I can't think of any reason you would need an 8-core CPU. more physical cores are definitely beneficial for many server, HPC and niche workstation applications (eg. video encoding) because those applications are developed for concurrency (to run in parallel). most of the applications/games we use are single-process so even though they use multithreading, they are not developed specifically for concurrency so a lot of the code is old-school serial and what matters for serial processing is clock speed.
Having said that, there is still a benefit to buying a 6 or 8 core CPU, and the benefit is that you are able to stress-test to isolate the performance of each individual core, shut down the laggards and run just the four fastest. It's basically like binning your own CPU. You could of course leave the cores running, but because of the stuff mentioned in the previous paragraph there's really no point because more active cores = more heat added and that means less clock speed, which you will want more of rather than less.
So, taking all that into consideration, the best value would be buying the most expensive FX you can afford, restricting it to the four fastest cores and bumping up the clock multiplier until you max out the cooler's potential.