AMD video cards

Dave Stevens geek at uniserve.com
Fri Jul 8 19:03:13 UTC 2016


On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 20:47:48 +0200
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 July 2016 at 20:36, Scott Blair <scott.blair at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It also can handle the CPU I want to get, AMD FX-9590.  
> 
> 
> I may be missing something, but AIUI, if you have an AMD FX, then you
> don't need a graphics card. It has a built-in quite capable GPU.
> 
> If you're not planning to use that GPU, then Intel's Core series CPUs
> offer considerably better performance for the buck. I know some people
> have fierce vendor loyalty, but AMD's processors *only* make sense if
> you want the GPU, from all I've read.

and in my experience AMD is always better bang for the buck, even
before APUs. YMMV

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