That's it, I'm fucking done with AMD
>Early adopter of 8320
>Underwhelming performance
>Buy 6850/7950
>Cards run hotter and buggy drivers, including mouse clipping, flash corruption
>Buy 7700K
>Attempt to use Dual Graphics
>Finnicky setup and underwhelming performance
Now I find out that my 7700K is throttling because of incorrect readings, and the same thing has happened across two different motherboard brands.
Stop defending them, they're a shit company. I'd rather pay the Intel/nVidia premium and actually have hardware that works, than play the AMD crap-shoot.
>>53600326
My 390 is pretty great and my buddy with a 970 has his drivers constantly crash
it's been pretty comfy so far
currently using an fx8320 and hd7850
they werk great here
>>53600326
>Now I find out that my 7700K is throttling because of incorrect readings
Actually, it's throttling to stay within it's power budget. If you disable the integrated graphics you'll probably get better CPU performance without too much of a hit on the GPU side. Then again, these issues were well known very soon after launch and hybrid crossfire was never worth it. You would have been better served by an athlon and a slightly better GPU but it sounds like you completely neglected to do any research at all.
I'm afraid you can't blame AMD for your own stupidity anon.
>>53600398
FX8320 and HD7970
No problems in Arch with open-source driver and lts kernel. Starting fresh—probably going to switch to a newer kernel
>>53600403
Right now, I'm using just the 7700K, and despite 'accurate' readings within UEFI, within the OS, it picks up ass-backwards readings that cause the processor to throttle.
Reason I know this is because when I was playing around with encoding/transcoding, the fans would periodically spin up as the 'package' temps hit 100C, while the actual CPU temps were at acceptable levels.
>falling for the APU meme
>>53600403
The Dual Graphics was just an experiment, the only thing I loss from that was the dissapointment that it was that the performance was underwhelming.
>>53600463
What are you using to look at the temps within the OS? Kaveri in general is very eager to throttle to stay within its power budget, especially when you have the power saving feature turned on in the UEFI and when the IGP is enabled. It still sounds like you've completely misunderstood what's actually happening.
>>53600362
>>53600398
>lying on the internet
>>53600491
Welcome to every hybrid crossfire or hybrid SLI implementation every. NVidia did something similar back in the days of motherboard IGPs and they lost performance in some use cases. Dual graphics with IGPs on one side have never, ever been a good idea and are essentially just included to prevent people from complaining when they don't exist.
>>53600491
It make suck ass for games. But for computing parallel applications, I enjoy doubling teraflops for double the price, rather than quadruple the price.
sure bud : ^ )
>>53600513
Yes. Op is lying, what of it?
>>53600513
they just pulled nvidia drivers due to how fucked they were...
meanwhile amd has been putting out fantastic ones for a while, sans if you used a 3rd party program to oc, and the initial glitch with fallout 4, neither of which caused the system to crash, throttle to hell and back till you stopped ocing or waiting for the hotfix... sure, but nothing constituting more then a minor annoyance, however nvidia has been pushing game ready drivers for a while that break more shit then fix.
>>53600522
this could change if something like hbm is on die for the cpu, but baring that, no, never a better option then just getting a slightly more powerful gpu.
>>53603280
>tfw drivers for my 290X crash every time there's a flash/html5 video on a webpage
I'd love to know where you get these great drivers.
>>53600326
the 8320 is shit, you should have gone for 8350.
Dual graphics is dumb and and you should learn to build a proper computer, i bet you are using some shady 20$ PSU and a shitty asrock mobo
>>53603326
what's wrong with asrock?
>>53603320
never seen that happen once, did you batch the install... seriously, amd driver removal tool then reinstall the newest non beta drivers if thats the issue.
>>53600451
How's AMDGPU compared to fglrx?
Really want to jump onto Ubuntu 16.04 but I'm not sure since fglrx won't be an option.
>>53603326
>buy 8320
>enter bios
>overclock by 300 mhz
>save and reboot
Wow that was hard.
>>53603356
Asrock is the worst brand out there, even biostar is better, i've seen so many asrock die and bottlenecking or killing the hardware attached to them. just avoid it.
>>53603380
it's the silicon lottery all over again
it's not really that easy, you should know that 8320 are 8350 who haven't passed the performance test and gets downclocked for fucking stability reasons, overclock a cpu like 8320 is like playing russian roulette.
>>53603424
Asrock is better than asus.
Gigabyte is best.
>>53603433
ill second the asrock over asus, had an asus motherboard, it refused to make it to post, got shafted on the warranty.
cant speak for gigabyte
>>53603424
Well they often just rebrand good ones because of higher demand.
My 8320 easily goes to 4.2 GHz. Haven't tried going higher because it's already fast enough at 3.5.
>>53603424
>Asrock is the worst brand out there
Whatever you're smoking, I want some of that, seems like really good shit
>>53603424
>overclock a cpu like 8320 is like playing russian roulette.
Not him but you're an idiot. 300 MHz is so small that the vast majority of those chips will do it without a voltage bump. The difference in overclocking headroom between the two is virtually non existent and it's not unheard of to get an 8320 that overclocks better than most 8350s.
>>53603455
>Whatever you're smoking, I want some of that, seems like really good shit
This.
>>53603433
>>53603447
Huh? I've never had problems with Asus boards.
Using a M5A97 R2.0 right now.
>>53603433
do you have any experience to affirm that?
Asus>MSI>Biostar>Gigabyte>>>>Asrock
Asus never gave me a single problem till now
Msi is the best stability you can wish but poor tweaking options
Biostar mobo fails at random but they work pretty good
Gigabyte shit themself with random bios brick otherwise would be god tier
Asrock... they ship broken mobo, bottleneck other components, poor resistance to bad power input, everything under 150$ is dogshit
>>53603472
Shut up you Israeli fuck go back to Africa
>>53600326
I've never had any problems with AMD or Nvidia drivers.
Just take care of your computers, kids.
>>53603424
my last mobo was a gigabyte and i had all kinds of trouble with it
my current one is an asrock i've been using since 2012, and i've been pushing it harder than i ever did the gigabyte board
>>53603495
Almost all mobos have a lower than 2% return rate. There are very few components left on the motherboard, it doesn't make as much of a difference any more. With the SATA controller, memory controller, northbridge and IGP on the CPU there won't be any meaningful performance difference if you're not overclocking.
>>53603554
I had asrock mobo on my last build and all half of the usb ports died within a month. Otherwise it was pretty good and lasted me 4 years.
>>53603629
I run a pc repair shop. Least returns we get are asrocks because most people buying those just use a pentium and 4GB ram so there's very little wear on the board.
Most returns we get are msi and asus because they try to act high end but end up with shit quality boards. Asus used to be good up till lga1156. Same with MSI.
Gigabyte is my personal favorite, I've got an i7 870 clocked at 4.2GHz@ 1.4v and it's been stable without any issues for the last 4 years. I use it a couple of hours most nights for video games. Everything else I do on my laptop.
If an asus or msi board offer better value for you, then go for it, but don't expect gigabyte levels of durability.
Can't really speak for high end asrocks personally.
>>53604485
How about ASUS stock no OC? Been using that for a few years, no issues.
>>53604485
msi is shit in terms of power management on their am3+ boards. I went through 2 msi boards before switching to asus.
The only problem is that the platform is old as fuck and modern features on am3+ motherboards are practically non existent, let alone mATX ones.
