I would like a comparison of PCs?

I have been looking around the forums of computer specs but I haven't found but 1 that was close to: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor 4.00GHz
My graphics card is only a: GeForce GTX 680 which I may buy a 780 or something or just skip the BS and go strait for a Titan Black.
My ram is: 16 Gb and I dont really care for much bigger speaking games generally don't take more then 4 Gb.
My hard drive is 2 terabytes, I would really like to get a 1 terabyte solid state (which is the best available as far as I know)

The main reason for this topic is to find out what other people have so I can decide for upgrades, that's why I displayed what I am thinking about for upgrades currently.

 

well, I've have a total crap GPU so don't ask me... I don't have enough money to get a new one, but the products that you mentioned were plenty good for anything IMHO.

 

Your GPU is better than mine: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-680-vs-EVGA-GeForce-GTX-760-SC-w-ACX-Cooler
Your CPU is on par with mine: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4670K-vs-AMD-FX-8350
You don't need any more RAM really
And an SSD is a must in my opinion, even a small one.

The only component that I want to upgrade in my rig is the GPU because I use multiple monitors. I also want to get a watercooling kit for my CPU so I can play around more with overclocking. And I would also want to get a kraken G10 for my new GPU so I can have a quieter, cooler and more overclockable GPU

 

IMHO the Titans are still BS... you're paying over 1k for a card which hardly performs better in gaming than a 780 ti.

The GTX 680 is still a good card. I see no reason to upgrade it if it's still working, unless you're looking for shadowplay. It should handle BeamNG on max settings at 60fps easily on 1080p.

AMD processors are so-so... If you want improved single core performance, I'd upgrade to an i7-4770k if you have the money for it.

At least have an SSD for your boot drive.

 

I see, I thought the 700 series graphics cards were better then the 600 series, was I wrong? and god my process power is insane! its like an i7 but a just a little less 8 times over!

 

Your CPU is great if you use it for multi-threaded tasks like video encoding or stuff like that. Unfortunately for gaming it isn't that great and it falls behind a lot of intels due to the lower IPC in BeamNG.

 

Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom to see the real world benchmarks. Your 600 series card is a high end 600 series card, while my 700 series card is a low spec 700 series card.
Also our CPUs will be about the same in terms of performance if you are running yours at stock clock, as I have overclocked my CPU a lot!

 

I hear an SSD is extremely important, when my brother had this computer assembled by iBUYPOWER I don't think he knew how important a solid state was speaking I find my disk on max performance a lot! However i don't truly know the importance speaking when i play games they never use the disk.

 

An SSD speeds up load times. Since there is no physical head that has to search around the disk, grabbing many small files is much quicker on an SSD. It has no moving parts to fail, and is generally faster and more reliable all around. The only downside is that they 'wear out' eventually, but you shouldn't really encounter that during normal use.

 

For BeamNG, I noticed a difference mainly when loading maps and spawning cars, having an SSD reduced the loading time of the maps and when spawning new cars or changing vehicle the vehicles loaded instantly

 

SSD matters almost negligibly to game performance. beamNG will stall once while it loads the damaged textures from storage after your first crash and then of course there is the actual map load time.



And yeah, AMD is a bit meh compared to intel. At the same clock speed in single threaded tasks intel will hammer AMD. With the same core counts intel will hammer AMD for multithreaded tasks too. But then intel costs alot more so what do you expect?

 

Ok so far I hear my PC is grate except it could use Intel processors in place of these AMD ones and I need to transfer my files/upgrade to a SSD. Is there any severe down sides? Some posted that SSD ware out fast, is that a big issue with SSD? And, how dangerous is overclocking? I heard you could meltdown your processors if you overclock them, is this true?

 

It's safe, and nothing will melt don't worry . Your computer will shut down automatically if it gets too hot to prevent damage.

 

There are no severe downsides. I said they wear out eventually, but you shouldn't see it happen during normal use. Especially if you get a 1tb model. Overclocking isn't dangerous, per se, but there is a risk of causing something to overload, or damaging your processor from heat if you don't have adequate cooling. I've never heard of anything actually melting, though.

 

Well then, I should try overclocking speaking it has a fail safe (shutting down), and will I get a SSD drive (1tb), then i will buy 8 Intel cores, can i have 8 i7's working together? My final question: Is there anymore suggestions/ideas for max gaming?

 

Firstly, before you go ahead with overclocking, watch a few videos of other people overclocking the same CPU as you have to see what speeds are realistic and what voltages you should be comfortable with.

What monitor do you have? or have you considered a multimonitor setup?

 

You didn't build your PC did you? YOu don't buy cores seperately...

 

Alright, I wouldn't overclock without watching a video anyways, but thanks for the heads up, and no i didn't build my PC my self, as i have mentioned before my brother bought it and had it assembled at iBUYPOWER. So I don't know what to buy to have the best 8 cores I can get my hands on.

 

You seem to have a fundemental misunderstanding of what we mean by 'core' and 'processor'. Read this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor

 

You talk about cores as if they were independent or something. You can't go to a store and say: ''Hey, I want 37 cores please''. You buy a CPU that has cores inside, and right now the top intel CPU is a 6-core cpu, that is the best you can get, no amd can compete with that.

As the one above said, you should get some basic knowledge of all pc related stuff before you attempt to build your own pc.