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[damon at damtek.com]

Can't respond inline on this app, so bare with me:
Games: currently they only use two cores max.  In real world test of real games measuring FPS it goes head to head with the pre- skybridge i7 at a fraction of the cost. With in PLUS or minus 10% of the i7 depending on the game. Some games you may see a difference depending on the GPU.
Integrated GPU are not good for intensive games, but are for casual games. It just depends on your 
Poison.
That is news to me about GPU and vms but I have been meaning to test it out. My laptop has two GPUs, an Intel chip and a nvidia optarun. I think that r9 card has multiple GPUs, just have not tested it. I hope to move my win onto a VM so I can fire it up to play. With 8 core 4gig procs, I hope it would power the VM fast enough.
I am not a hard core gamer, but the ones I do like require decent video.  The vaper ware from AMD this year is suppose to increase AMD core process about 40%, which would put them on par with Intel. Not that even games require that much from a cpu.
That i7 would beat the pants off of the fx8370 in certain multithreaded applications, and I mean soundly. But most home users don't run this apps. Power is a consideration. I guess I am running 145w when over clocked. I actually turn on the machine on chilly days when I start work in my home office, for heat  ;)
Open up emails, process some doc, look at porn, and I only spent $750 for the CPU! Win! Not!
Iirc I spent $120 for the CPU and the MB and I have a KVM running screaming machine that can play any game on the market.
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Sent from myMail app for Android Friday, 26 February 2016, 05:35PM -05:00 from DJ-Pfulio < DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> :

>On 02/26/16 16:17,  damon at damtek.com wrote:
>> My new system is AMD fx.8370 with a amd radeon r9 380. Why? Bang for
>> your buck.
>> 
>> 8 cores running at 4g.  You can get Intel that does specific jobs
>> better, but not for $149. Good for games and the vms I will run.
>
>$149?!!!  Very nice for almost 9000 passmarks!
>https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+FX-8370+Eight-Core
>Little high on the power use, but power isn't THAT expensive here.
>
>Saw an i7-3770 with similar performance (9300 passmark) (4 cores) and
>77W, but for $100 more.  At that price, Intel Core i5-4590S (7000
>passmark) and i5-4590 (7200 passmark) (non-S)
>
>Thought that fewer cores was better for gaming and that games don't
>"speak" hyperthreading. Is that still true?  The i7 cores are almost 50%
>faster (core-to-core).
>
>I much prefer the onboard IGPs - no need to add more heat + cost to a
>case with a GPU. ;) But that's me ... suspect more people prefer a
>separate GPU.  OTOH, without the IGP, people who want to use VGA
>passthru to a Windows VM for gaming need to get 2 GPUs, since HW
>passthru can only be for 1 OS at a time and the hostOS needs a GPU too.
>
>For VMs - there's no question that more cores is nice.
>
>Sometimes I compare CPUs using CPUBoss and CPU-World.com -
>http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4590-vs-AMD-FX-8370
>Sometimes they have the wrong specs, so look for big mistakes for things
>you think are important. I'd rate these as very similar overall, just
>with different strengths.  Looks like a good choice - plus the AMD
>supports ECC RAM, so get down with ZFS!
>
>And don't forget that newer systems may require DDR4 RAM (not the AMD
>above), which is a premium cost these days. For me, I'd avoid that,
>since there is spare DDR3 RAM around here.  I avoided DDR3 and SATA for
>about 3-4 yrs too. ;)
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