CPU Shopping Tips as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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1,012 words · ~5 min read
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first up of course is to figure out which you prefer between AMD or Intel
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right wrong we do not shop by brand we
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shop by what delivers us the best performance features and quality for the
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money we're spending and just to make this Crystal Clear AMD and Intel both
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make extremely high quality microprocessors so let's move on to that
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other stuff step one if you already have your PC and your upgrading is to make
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sure you're shopping for CPUs that actually fit in the fracking motherboard
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that you're planning to use don't feel bad about needing to look it up Intel
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for example maintains current generation products across two different physical
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sockets at any given time and often has a trailing older socket along with more
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complex electrical incompatibilities so go ahead ask a friend next step is to
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look at what delivers more bang for your buck within your target budget
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Performance used to be simple the younger viewers may be surprised to hear
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that not only did AMD and Intel CPUs used to perform the same clock for clock
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but they even fit into the same motherboards at one point comparisons
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were easy whoever had the faster clock speed was faster and the megahertz war
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was born then everything started changing because the megahertz or
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gigahertz or frequency of a CPU became
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no longer any more meaningful than gauging the performance of a car by how
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many RPMs the engine spins at I mean
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yeah it's a it's a useful metric somewhat but only if we have other
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information at the same time so let's talk about this other information number
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one we need to know how much work a CPU
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can perform with each of those Cycles how many instructions per clock it can
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perform if CPU a ran at 2 GHz and did
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one instruction per cycle and CPU B ran at 1 GHz and did two instructions per
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cycle then they actually do the exact same amount of work so the only way to
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measure which one is really better is by running real world tests but just like
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putting a car on a Dyno and measuring Peak horsepower running one test or one
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Benchmark isn't the be all and end all of CPU performance either modern CPUs
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have multiple processing cores inside them and while some benchmarks will
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measure the top speed of a single core with more power redirected to it in a
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turbo mode other benchmarks will tell us more about how that CPU behaves with a
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heavier load that's spread across all the processing course a multi-threaded
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test and other tests will tell us you know if the CPU has enough C to keep up
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with a particular workload in a perfect world you want to find websites that
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test the exact applications you're using most frequently so you know exactly what
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you're getting and that's the only way to figure it out but let's continue the
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car analogy for some people it isn't just about how fast you go what about
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Creature Comforts like air conditioning and cruise control CPU reviews from
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reputable sites like tech report Hardware connects and PC perspective
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will give you a rundown of other important information like power power
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consumption heat output security features maximum supported memory
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expected overclocking limits for Tweakers and so much more and once
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you've got all of that information you are ready to make a non Fanboy tastic
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decision about what gives you the best value for your money before plunking
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down your hard-earned cashola but if all
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that sounded like way too much work and at this point you're just kind of
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sitting here going oh I can't believe I'm watching this not to worry head over
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to linch tips.com and post asking for a recommendation in the CPU section I
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what I thought and I guess there's no excuse guys thank you for checking out
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move fast and wildly for a little bit to wreak havoc on my editors who are trying
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to Green Screen this I think we're done here