So we are all agreed that the 7970 is the best GPU of all time, what is the best CPU of all time?

So we are all agreed that the 7970 is the best GPU of all time, what is the best CPU of all time?

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i5-2500k

Q6600 or i5 750/2500k

2500k/2600k

2500k

No

The E5-2570v1

Fite me

>E5-2570v
you mean the e5-2670?

5820k

8800GTX for basically rewriting the notion of what a GPU is capable of

or 4870 for phenominal price/$ that took Nvidia down a well needed peg at the height of their power

Fuck.

But yes.
It is a golden chip, twice as nice when you 2P.

i7 920 + 7970 master race

2500k is falling behind. 2600k still stronk

i7 920 @ 4Ghz on air
Sandyfags need to gtfo.

i7-2600/2700k
>Soldered IHS
>5ghz capable on golden samples with conventional cooling
>Still a solid performer going on 7 years later
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i7-2600k

i9-7980XE @ 5GHz

£40 vs £100
I know what I'm buying

The HD7000 series in general were winners

Yep. It's unstoppable with a good cooler, and was able to 1080p with the best of them.
>cpu
2700k maybe

7970 is indeed a fucking animal
just think... it came out in 2012, and then again and again and again, the same chip, and it's still relevant in 2017

I still prefer the original 3dfx.

>The HD7000 series in general were winners
HD 7950's best performance per dollar when oc'd.
I still have my hd7970 it's a little long in the tooth, but It'll still game.

>still rocking a 2600k and 7790 after several years
>feel no need to upgrade but fan on 7790 needs replacing

it's still a hella comfy combo that does everything I need

it's still pretty good right now, though you could get the same performance with much better power consumption today

same or better gayman performance, yes, but in terms of raw bandwidth it's still a killer most of the time
that 384-bit bus helps a lot

My xfx 7970 died 980ti is much better going to buy the titan meme next time

>7970 died
you can fix it

what does the bandwidth give ya? I still have mine from gigabyte, it's OCed to 1ghz. Cons are it's kinda loud(no coil whine though, thank God) and the power usage is pretty huge, it even broke a 500 watt psu I had, so I got a 700w one.

>tfw ocd 7870 and 4690k at 4.5ghz on a 430w psu
Never had problems

I had a XFX 7970 and I hated that fuckin thing. Hot as SHIT. 2500k is solid I still have mine in another build but really like do people REALLY like the 7970 or did I miss that meme?

Sorry chaps but the 8700k has finally thoroughly dethroned the 2600/2700k. 30% faster in single and double the multi-threaded speeds. Guys..it's time.

>Names newest whatever CPU
Sorry mater but you're either too autistic or not autistic enough for this thread. GOAT would mean something so good that it's still around in 2017, many many generations after they were sold in very large numbers. So maybe coffee lake being mainstream six cores will be cool but you can't just name something new GOAT.

Fair enough but if we're really going that hard then I posit either the 486 SX 25, the Celeron 300A, or the original core duo laptop chips that I can't even remember the model number of it's been so long. Those were the ones I remember thoroughly blowing me away when they came out though I imagine most here are too young.

My 7950 is getting pretty old, so I broke down and finally ordered a 1080 since it was $50 cheaper than the current going rate. I hope I'll be as satisfied three years from now as I am now with my venerable AMD.

>GIGABYTE 7970 OC 3GB
>Still plays 99% of modern games 1080p 60fps

I don't know how they did it, but it's still going strong. Nvidia has gone through the 9-series and 10-series graphics cards since then, so when I upgrade in the next couple years I had better see a drastic improvement

Q6600 such a badass workhorse. Loved that furnace.

Did u guys seen bunch of gaming benchmark? 280x 380 and 390 still keeping up with brand new games. 700 series and 900 series are somewhat missing on bench graph now.

>pentium 4 2.4ghz
>opteron 165
>q6600
>fx-8120
>e5-2670 x 2

My 280x shits the bed with Deus Ex MD and anything Assassin's Creed since Unity.

Oh and The Witcher 3. And it gets fairly hot and noisy and an aftercooler market costs probably as much as the fucking GPU itself. Oh and 300W.

i7 7700k @5ghz

>fx
>no phenom in sight
cmon user

>>GIGABYTE 7970 OC 3GB

Using the same card and I've loved it. Bought it in 2013 and had it mining almost non-stop for a couple months back then. Today it still handles some pretty demanding games but it is starting to show it's age somewhat, still it's been my little workhorse for when I've needed it and will genuinely miss it when I upgrade to the EVGA 1080 I've bought. Will most likely keep it as a spare.

Gigabyte Windforce 7970 OC 3GB reporting in.
I was so pleasantly surprised I'm probably not getting nVidia again.
My GTX285 was practically useless a year and a half in.

The 900 is still very much relevant. I remember when people said the 390 would become as fast as a 980 or even 980 ti because of drivers. Fast forward 2 years and it's still not faster than even a 970 oc for oc. (Source: hub)

Overpriced compared to the 2500k/q6600

Top 3 best value CPUs/GPUs of all time?
Q6600,2500K,1600
4870,7970,390

Same, my 7950 still rocks all my games. Including some new titles, NieR Automata for example.

This. Newer drivers for the 390 are buggy af too. If you don't need more VRAM or FreeSync AMD isn't worth it.

HD 7870 Tahiti was the true winner
>Basicly 99% HD7950 but with only 2gb VRAM
>100€ Cheaper
>Mad overclocks 30-40% overclocks on air.

I have an oc'd 7950 and it works well enough. One of the fans is broken, but because of great air flow in my case I get about 50-60°C temps at full load.

my laptop still uses a core duo T4200 and works flawless for shitposting and watching mongolian animations

...

It's kind of funny you'd say that, in threads like this I always want to say the 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 is the best graphics cards of all time.

...but it's not close to the best by today's standards, not even close. At the time, though.. it was pretty darn revolutionary. I got the same wow feeling about the graphics when I got it that I got when I bought my first SSD and saw the loading speeds. All the "graphics cards" I had before it were just 2D cards, though, and they were pretty much just measured by the resolution they could do.

The Athlon XP 2000+ circa 2002/3. DESTROYED the Intel Pentium 4 housefires and paved the way for the Athlon 64 series of CPUS. Had that with a Geforce 4 ti 4200 128MB AGP card. Good times.
Pic Related XP2000 vs P4 both w/ Geforce 3 Ti 500 card

>30% improvement
>after 7 fucking years
Trash CPU. Sandy bridge was the end of Moore's law.

Yeah, that reminds me! Mine was an HP I bought at Costco. Had a 1.66GHz T2600 with a 7600Go Nvidia graphics card. Shit was blazing compared to the Sempron 2800+ I replaced with it. Played the shit out of Doom 3 and Half Life 2 at the time. I loved that laptop then some fuckwad broke into my car and stole it.

HD6870 was a true bang for the buck when it came out