Please, I fricking love my CPU,
It's fast, good multi-tasking, cool, quiet,
I know AMD gets flak,
But they make good CPU's
and I got mine for £60,
second hand ofcourse,
And I oc'd it to 4Ghz,
My PC is only £200 altoghter, so bare that in mind,
I love it to bits.
And I want to know everything about it!
Tell me EVERYTHING!
Please?
http://postimg.org/image/49v0jx6n1/
You know it's a dual core, right?
Im not exactly sure what you want to know.. but it is a very good CPU for the price. Congradulations on a good find.
lol dont be mean.. he is so excited!
Nope, it isn't, it is a quad core and it says in screenshot he sent. ;).
Yes, what you want to know? At least you got it when it was/is cheap lol.
Don't overclock it, those 4GHz are meaningless in real world, it is powerfull enough for any game on the market, it is worse for gaming compared to Piledriver CPU's, but difference is not big at all, while in some task it is faster compared to Piledriver cores, but again, difference is minimal.
It works well paired with AMD GPU's, it's hot as hell on summer with stock cooler, and it should serve you well for next 3 years or maybe more.
That's all you need to know ;).
i have the fx-4170 and it's pretty rad.
You know it's a dual core, right?
no... just no
Don't overclock it, those 4GHz are meaningless in real world
don't let the overclockers hear you say that, they might just throw facts at you
It works well paired with AMD GPU's
no, it will work exactly the same regardless of if it's paired with an amd or nvidia card, there is zero benifit to pairing amd processor and graphics card
Well overclockers can say whatever they want, but there is no such thing as free performance, it always come at cost, and it isn't only heat, power consumption and degradation :).
I don't think so, AMD put much more effort in optimizing their drivers for their own platform, regardless of market share, theya re more familiar with it, and they have more reasons to do so. They are in situation where they can't allow themselves to make mistakes, Intel holds desktop CPU market share by large percent, therefore they have to optimize their GPU's well for those platforms, even if they don't want to. While nVidia don't need to optimize their drivers for AMD platform, and if something doesn't work well, user will blame CPU, when in fact, it is driver, so that is in some sense benefit for them...
And by reading posts around the web, i can see those words confirmed.
i love my 4170. have it overclocked to almost 4.7ghz and it runs stable as all get out and never breaks 30 degrees celcius with a coolmaster hyper 212. motherboard i have is a GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard. runs great.
everyone starts somewhere the fx 4100 is a very respectible gaming cpu for entry level gaming pc.
Im well aware :) with 2 logical cores extra though, but for the money i'm very happy with it :)
I does get very hot, as hot as 70 degrees some days, And I do infact have it paired with a Hd 5570, very weak but I got it for half price!
Thank you, and yeah it's my first hand built pc :)
Actually I've heard a few things about AMD being paired with AMD so maybe, maybe not :) and why you say no to the dual core thing?
No doubt, AMD Fx-4000's really put up a fight for their standard :)
it's a quad core, not a dual core, not a dual core with hyper threading, it's a quad core
and gpu drivers have nothing to do with the particular x86 cpu they are working with, amd/intel makes no difference, an nvidia equivilant will perform exactly the same as it's amd counterpart
So it does :)
It's a Dual core with Two extra logical cores right? that sound right? (i'm new to learning really, this was my first build :)
