(August 2, 2014 at 8:20 pm)Insanity Wrote: I'm surprised the RAM is an issue with 16gig. Is it the speed of it that's the issue?
I don't have 16g in my gaming unit. I was speaking in general terms - i.e. all else being equal, you're better off throwing more money at RAM and video hardware than at CPU.
Quote:Mostly I'm going for the i5 because of how much I've hated my AMD 6200. It's not awful but whenever I play anything processor heavy I have a nightmare. I'd like to have something I know is more than enough. Plus the idea of overclocking it sounds like fun to me.
Yeah, the AMD 6200 is not exactly a fast proc. Even an i3 would run circles around it.
I haven't bothered overclocking anything since.... probably the P100. Playing the "how fast can I make it go" is kinda fun, but pushing to random reboots and BSOD isn't.