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Fabian Wosar - Current workstation build
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<blockquote data-quote="Fabian Wosar" data-source="post: 790383" data-attributes="member: 24327"><p>I was initially most concerned about the heat and noise as the reference cooling was reported to be quite noisy. However, my non-reference board is quite good. When it comes to drivers: As a driver developer myself, I can tell you that the Radeon drivers are lightyears ahead of Nvidia. The number of driver issues I had with Nvidia in the past (Widevine on Netflix causing BSODs, because Nvidia #####ed up their DRM path and literally didn't fix it for 6 months for example) and that I saw when looking into their drivers because of compatibility issues with EAM was insane.</p><p></p><p>I am sure if you are more into large AAA games and want to play them on release day, you are probably better off with Nvidia. Mostly because they sink a small fortune into helping game developers "optimise" their games for their cards, while AMD owners usually have to wait for the next driver release to fix performance issues. But since I am not interested in the Battlefields and Call of Duties of the world, I don't mind.</p><p></p><p>From what I can tell, it has gotten a lot better there as well with AMD. Probably because most gaming consoles now (and probably also in the future) are based on AMD GPUs.</p><p></p><p></p><p>They are Samsung B-DIEs, yes. I checked that beforehand. I don't run them at 3466 MHz though as the system isn't 100% stable at that configuration. Instead, I am running them with a slight overvolt at 3200 MHz. If I could pick again, I would probably go for a 2-module RAM kit as running 4 modules just adds too much instability when running on high speeds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fabian Wosar, post: 790383, member: 24327"] I was initially most concerned about the heat and noise as the reference cooling was reported to be quite noisy. However, my non-reference board is quite good. When it comes to drivers: As a driver developer myself, I can tell you that the Radeon drivers are lightyears ahead of Nvidia. The number of driver issues I had with Nvidia in the past (Widevine on Netflix causing BSODs, because Nvidia #####ed up their DRM path and literally didn't fix it for 6 months for example) and that I saw when looking into their drivers because of compatibility issues with EAM was insane. I am sure if you are more into large AAA games and want to play them on release day, you are probably better off with Nvidia. Mostly because they sink a small fortune into helping game developers "optimise" their games for their cards, while AMD owners usually have to wait for the next driver release to fix performance issues. But since I am not interested in the Battlefields and Call of Duties of the world, I don't mind. From what I can tell, it has gotten a lot better there as well with AMD. Probably because most gaming consoles now (and probably also in the future) are based on AMD GPUs. They are Samsung B-DIEs, yes. I checked that beforehand. I don't run them at 3466 MHz though as the system isn't 100% stable at that configuration. Instead, I am running them with a slight overvolt at 3200 MHz. If I could pick again, I would probably go for a 2-module RAM kit as running 4 modules just adds too much instability when running on high speeds. [/QUOTE]
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