with AMD putting in some shekels with Vulkan and DX12 adoption as well as being the only GPU for consoles

I'll say it'll take 2-3 years before AMD outperforms Nvidia

when everyone moves to new architectures

Intel chips don't scale well with single threading. The only reason they seem to is because more threads relieve the workload of the one. You're just barely skating by with an ip, though. Since a lot of games are becoming quad core minimum. And the hyperthreading gets counted as such.

i got a i3 6100 cause the i5 6600 is overpriced

and intel's next gen chips use the same sockets anyways

so I can easily drop a new CPU in

Basically, your i3 is way faster single threaded. As long as it's not bogged down with a shit load of tasks.

and I've read nonstop that the i3 6100 is amazing and outpeforms it's price class

and it wont be a bottleneck for years

Haha, well.. I'd find out if yours is locked. Bclk over clocking is pretty easy with skyline I heard.

Skylake

yeah

im gonna probably get a noctua

and drop it on

Since the memory and pcie controllers are on a separate bus now.

Check eBay, I picked up 2 different noctuas for less than 50$ shipped. Last I checked all the cheap ones were gone though.

tbh if you don't mess around with extreme CPU heavy emulators there is no need to care about CPUs

If it isn't an Intel pentium 3 or something

Lol

Good thing I have a 9370

Oh lawd.

What's the voltage on that beast?

Can't believe you can't find Nu Males Sky for under 50€

Supposedly the dude I got that 290 off of dropped it off today. Alas, I don't think usps moves packages on Sundays.

If the bastid shipped it yesterday, I'd have it tomorrow to tinker with.

I heard nu males sky doesn't have multiplayer

It's "essentially" single player. Whatever that means. I didn't read the article.

is there a difference between DDR4 speeds now

I got a 2666 mhz

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10560/samsung-at-flash-memory-summit-64layer-vnand-bigger-ssds-zssd

Yeah but only tiny bit

What do you mean? Like between different speed ddr4 dimms?

yeah

different speeds

for DDR4 dimms

Depends on the game, some have little to no gains, some have huge gains.

You have to go 3000+ for small increase in performance

hmm I should have splurged for the 3000 then

Doesn't matter much if your minimum framerate is around 60 tho

Fallout 4 is running an old engine, optimized for systems with unified memory pools, so it seems to hit system memory harder than it should.