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scarabking117

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The other day I purchased my motherboard as well as the gpu(which should both get here on friday or later today) and just a while ago i noticed the price of the entire fx series cpu's go down and saw that i could get an AMD fx-8320 for the same price of the fx-6300 i was originally planning on getting and I'd like some thoughts on if the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P is alright if I wanna get the 8320 and OC instead of the 6300 plus OC.
 
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It's an r9-280, wasn't aware it'd be a factor. I just stated it because I ordered them together.
 
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and yes, you know, what every single person on the planet has; 212 evo. considering water cooling down the line just so i can have experience. but maybe that'll happen on a future build.
 
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The premise of an arbitrary "sweet spot" combination of CPU/GPU without specific workloads up for consideration is absolute malarkey. Performance and visual quality are separate issues. Any CPU can bottleneck any GPU under the right conditions, and any CPU can saturate any GPU under the right conditions.

Most hardware enthusiasts placate to a heap of mysticism regarding the relationship between CPU's and GPU's. You should match your CPU to your performance goals, and match your GPU to your visual quality goals. Any attempt to match them to each-other based on any area of consideration other than differences in driver/API workload is fundamentally flawed. Ironically, when we do consider the differences in driver/API workload, AMD GPU's should not be paired with AMD CPU's. It is in fact, Nvidia's drivers that scale better into the many-core architecture of AMD CPUs.
 
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My goals are a rig that will blow me and my really old tower away when I get it and last me a decent amount of time, and I don't really mind if Nvidia can do the job better because amd is a little cheaper and it's not like these are bad items or anything, I hope AMD really wow's us in the coming quarter. Also i never really assumed he was talkking about an actual defined sweetspot, and more so stating that these two components are fairly good matches and that they are more complimenting parts then say a 750ti and this AMD CPU. It's not all so literal. I'm all for learning things(that involve computers usually), thank you for sharing.
 
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