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vikramr Member

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Gaming PCs & Laptops @vikramr 1 week ago

Building a new rig mostly for gaming at 1440p, some streaming on the side. Budget isn't tight but I don't want to pay for cores I'll never use. Torn between AMD and Intel and the benchmarks I find all disagree. What would you go with?

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Gaming PCs & Laptops @katep 1 week ago

Two processors on paper look close in core count and clock speed but reviews show big gaming gaps. What should I actually compare, cache, single-core scores, benchmarks in specific games?

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Gaming PCs & Laptops @vikramr 1 month ago

Spent most of last night trying to check cpu temp and got nowhere. What's the step i'm missing?

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Gaming PCs & Laptops @meerah 1 month ago

I've watched three videos on how to check cpu temperature and they all do it differently. For reference, an i5 with 16gb ram. Is there a proper order to this? Happy to give more detail if it helps.

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