I have to ask: why the Intel CPU and AMD GPU? I went with an AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU for my build which is basically a different route to the same thing (good specs for less money). I don't particularly trust ATI graphics, though. Games get less testing coverage on them in general, so they tend to be associated with rendering bugs and other issues. The same is true of AMD CPUs, but to a lesser extent as far as I know.
I'm going to be playing Battlefield 1 on PC real soon so anybody else got an Origin account? Playing Battlefield alone is nowhere near as fun with friends. My Origin ID is 'Jeeeeeeebus' if you guys want to add me.
Also, I'll finally be getting around to posting pics of my build soonish.
Including myself, I believe adderrson, SteelGreen, and ♥ Sky also run Intel CPUs alongside AMD GPUs. My reason, personally, for choosing an Intel CPU (specifically an i5-6600k) is after Addy basically persuaded me to. Intel Core CPUs are generally better than AMD CPUs in terms of single core performance which is preferred for gaming as many games generally do not utilize more than a single core/thread (although DX12 and Vulkan APIs fix this slightly). Specifically, I wanted a CPU that will allow me to play all modern AAA titles at 1080p Ultra/Max settings at or over 60 fps (excluding GTA V) and I'm not sure any AMD processor can do that at stock speeds. Hopefully AMD will finally compete against Intel again with the new Vega CPUs in high performance, for the sake of the consumers.I have to ask: why the Intel CPU and AMD GPU? I went with an AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU for my build which is basically a different route to the same thing (good specs for less money). I don't particularly trust ATI graphics, though. Games get less testing coverage on them in general, so they tend to be associated with rendering bugs and other issues. The same is true of AMD CPUs, but to a lesser extent as far as I know.
Still a sweet build, I'm just curious more than anything.
Including myself, I believe adderrson, SteelGreen, and ♥ Sky also run Intel CPUs alongside AMD GPUs. My reason, personally, for choosing an Intel CPU (specifically an i5-6600k) is after Addy basically persuaded me to. Intel Core CPUs are generally better than AMD CPUs in terms of single core performance which is preferred for gaming as many games generally do not utilize more than a single core/thread (although DX12 and Vulkan APIs fix this slightly). Specifically, I wanted a CPU that will allow me to play all modern AAA titles at 1080p Ultra/Max settings at or over 60 fps (excluding GTA V) and I'm not sure any AMD processor can do that at stock speeds. Hopefully AMD will finally compete against Intel again with the new Vega CPUs in high performance, for the sake of the consumers.
My reason for choosing an AMD GPU over NVIDIA as NVIDIA seems to use shady tactics and even appear to sabotage the performance of some games against AMD, among many other things. NVIDIA is very anti-consumer to me. My second reason being that my motherboard supports only AMD CrossFire and not NVIDIA SLI, so the case that I ever want to expand to two cards for additional performance in the future, I can do that. My third, most important reason is that AMD cards support the Vulkan API and 'asynchronous compute' in DX12 whereas even the newest NVIDIA cards do not. So far, I haven't had any adverse experiences using an AMD card over an NVIDIA card of similar performance (GTX 980 or GTX 1060) to mine.
I have to ask: why the Intel CPU and AMD GPU? I went with an AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU for my build which is basically a different route to the same thing (good specs for less money). I don't particularly trust ATI graphics, though. Games get less testing coverage on them in general, so they tend to be associated with rendering bugs and other issues. The same is true of AMD CPUs, but to a lesser extent as far as I know.
Still a sweet build, I'm just curious more than anything.
I am The_Psycho_Duck on Origin. Feel free to add me. I'll be getting BF1 before long.
I have to ask: why the Intel CPU and AMD GPU?
Thought this could use an update, The new NVIDIA gpus: GTX 1050, and GTX 1050ti have been released and gpu prices have gone down.Budget GPU's that you guys should check out:
GTX 1060 (3gb) while it may be limited to having only 3 gb of vram but for 200$ it's still a great bang for your buck video card
For those of you on the red team, Amd's RX470 (4gb) is essentially an RX 480 that's a little weaker, The RX 470's benchmarks have shown it does a great job at playing games at 1080p sadly I can't recommend this video card if you're looking for 4k or 1440p gaming, for about 200$ and the useful 4gb of vram id highly suggest taking a look at this card!
The most affordable card on this list but not the best card on this list, if you're really on a budget then this card is for you, for around 140$ that's a really affordable price to pay if you want a Gpu that gets the job done at 1080p! However it should be noted that this Gpu is considerably way weaker then the RX 470, so again buy this card if you're looking for a good 1080p experience.
I could add older cards here but they wouldn't be able to play direct x12 which is what Halo 5 forge needs for you to play it, anyways if you guys have other budget cards you'd like to share feel free to reply to me.
Anyways happy building
Upgraded to an i7 6700, so far it's exceeded my expectations.View attachment 17417
I plan to replace my pentium G4400 for this i5 6400 later this year, it's currently around 180$ on Amazon, I could probably get a higher priced i5, but I don't plan to over clock my cpu.
Are you sure it's from ayymd? the garbage truck isn't on fire.ayyMD lmao