[QUOTE="Spike1988"][QUOTE="evildead6789"][ Trimmed evildead6789

6950s are more expensive in every country.

You know regarding this "you could have done this or that different", not everyone wants to completely rebuild their machine every single time they upgrade, also dropping in a new CPU doesn't require any effort. If he would have switched from AMD to intel he would have also had to reinstall windows.

So your suggestion costs 200 dollars more and requires an entire day of reinstalling everything on his computer vs 2 minutes to open the case, take out the old processor, put in new processor, close case, install done.

Your advice is bad, stop giving it.

EDIT: Furthermore, this wasn't a thread asking for advice, this guy upgraded and then wanted to share. Never at any point did he ask for your opinion and the fact that you are giving it is incredibly rude and disrespectful to the TC.

you should have bought the i5-2500 or i5-2400, it's faster, whoops...evildead6789

You obviously didn't take into account that:

1)He had the motherboard

2)Your "solution" costs much more for `10% performance gain.

[QUOTE="oldskooler79"]

Is it best to use VirtualBox or to Dual Boot? I already have 8 gigs of ram for Win 7 64-bit now so I'm thinking running XP 32-bit in VirtualBox should be no sweat? Even for light gaming?

digitalboy1990

except for the fact that games you'd need to vbox on aren't demanding at all.

http://dfbrigade.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2448

BF3 outright refuses to run on a 2900XT whereas it runs just fine on a first generation 8800GTS. Both cards had similar performance. With AMD you need atleast a 3xxx series card to run BF3. Now yes the 8800 was a huge success and the 2900XT was a failure but still why doesnt AMD do something to support the game? There is no reason why the 2900XT cant when the 8800GTS can.

The ATI DX9 cards dont have official windows 7 support whereas nvidia DX9 cards do.

I am really not trying to be a fanboy here but it's just pretty obvious that nvidia has so much better legacy support. I cant imagine how pissed off I would be if my GTS 250 outright refused to run BF3.

For people who dont regularly upgrade it has to be said that nvidia seems the better option.

Gambler_3

I know several people with 8800s who are having a really hard time to get bf3 working properly.

also lol

[QUOTE="Tezcatlipoca666"]

This might help sales a little bit but AMD have really dropped the ball. They have put off a TON of potential buyers when they blew it with Bulldozer. I was planning on upgrading my Athlon II X2 to a bulldozer CPU but I bought a used Phenom II X4 955 with a Xigmatek (sp?) heatsink all for $80 from a classmate. Why would I spend money on a new mobo and then spend $150+ to get a Bulldozer CPU which hardly performs any better?

Some budget minded, new rig builders might show some interest in the FX-6100 at that price but I have doubts. The i5 SB family isn't all that much more expensive and offers better performance on average.

AMD needs to bring it. Intel keeps on turning up the heat and AMD is sitting around immobile. AMD won't die as a consequence of their current desktop CPU failure but it is going to hamper their ability to gain market share. Even if the Fusion chips are really great laptop APUs the image of failure and incompetence surrounding AMD right now is enough to make people ignore AMD based laptops entirely.

AMD, you need to do something in the next year or so. The Bulldozer architecture itself is innovative and has great potential but you need to iron out some of the issues. Refine it, optimize it, and then sell it at a highly competitve price.

/rant

hofuldig

That doesn't make any sense. The a6 and a8s wipe the floor with the intel counterparts. they are by far the best laptops you can get without a discrete gpu.

Drop AA to 4x and see what happens.

run chkdsk

I don't know what motherboard I have, but I have a dual core processor 2.8 ghzInternetSwag

Download speccy and run it and tell us everything it tells you.

Yeah guys Skyrim is really a great game, but so many threads about it it's sick. This is PC Gaming threads.. talk about L.A. Noire, Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Batman: Arkham City... jeez.

tjricardo089

But those are just console ports.

Windows 7 does have an option to run programs in "compatability" mode for Vista and XP. So for those particular games just right click- properties and then run in compatability mode of the platform.

SickStench

This is a big one.

Also you can download something like virtualbox and install the older operating systems on it. Currently on my vbox I am running ubuntu 11.04/11.10, windows XP/2000/98/95 (for nostalga's sake)