I had AAAAAALMOST converted, but you'll never be able to taint me. Last Intel I had was a slot style (what the hell did we call these) PIII 733. From there to the mobile athlon units that you could o/c by over 100%. That NF7-S and 2400M build I was rocking back when I met you and we did those couple raptors in raid 0!!!!!! Had 12 Smart Case Fan II in that tower. When I push the dial to 10 for overclock benching it was ACTUALLY louder than my vacuum cleaner lmao. Then the Phenom into the Phenom II where I sat for like 6 years lol. So upgrading to this chip... win10 doesn't feel slow at all.
Next up while we're still running through infant bios updates is to clean out the old mid tower and move my server hardware out of the 18'' deep 4U box and into this one. Room for more drives and basically everything else too. Never build in a short rack mount before, but they are NOT what you use for storage servers lmao. Know anyone in LA that needs a 4u case?
LOL I have no loyalty to the chips! I started on intel 286, went AMD, back to intel, back to AMD then last one was a FX60, back to intel and I will stay here until AMD is faster. Then AMD again! LOL
These chips do look good you can build a nice system for the price of a top end intel CPU!
What are you using to encode? I use Nero, CyberLink & free Handbrake. All the encoders move my CPU to 4,000 MHZ
Handbrake being the fastest all 20 CPU's at 65 to 85% 2 pass stays around 700 fps encoding.
CyberLink Power Director 15 80 to 100% all CPU's and ramps the 1080 (1900) up higher then any game I play. 700 to 1100 FPS encoding (on the 2nd pass).
Nero 2 pass all 20 CPU's 100% but still the slowest :( about 300 to 400 FPS 2nd pass all the first passes are super fast.
Most of my games don't even move my CPU it stay's between 1200 MHZ & 2400 MHZ LOL at around 5 to 8% per CPU. Only one even moves the video card BorderLand 2 will move the vid card 1500 to 1550 but the CPU's stay low. Defiance depending on the event will move the vid card to 1500-1600 (but only for a few seconds) and CPU's to around 8 to 10%. All the COD's vid card stays at the lowest 1250 CPU's 1 to 5% Battlefield vid card 1400-1450, CPU's 2 to 4%.
My encoding uses way more CPU and way more video in cyberlink then any of my games and they are all set to the highest settings.
I did notice a huge performance boost in Windows 10 RS2 it's as fast as my Windows 8 Pro on drive speed & memory speed and not near as glitchy! Prior to RS2 Win 10 was about 20 to 25% SLOWER then my Windows 8 Pro (8.1 about the same speed as 10 why I never kept it)
lol I love Handbrake did you ever get your Linux going? You should try it Linux ZOOOOOM twice as fast as windows! Almost the same setting but man it fly's in Linux and by far is the fastest in Windows.
I only buy Corsair for 100% stock everyday computers. So I haven't ever had any go bad or need an RMA.
For my systems I only use Crucial I tried some garbage Gskill ONCE! That crap can only run at it's speed and nothing else not even lower! And it needs FULL power to be stable(will only run on XMP power settings)! My Crucial 3000 will run 2000 - 4400 and ONLY needs 1.280v to run 4000+ everything else 1.165 to 1.268v