Shades998

I have a 960 GTX and I have found in to be a little wanting in some of the games I play. The 480 and even 470 have close to twice the theoretical performance then my 960 does. I have also considered freesync as a much more viable solution then gsync, due to outrageous prices here in canada. Either of these cards would be a direct upgrade over my 960 GTX and I have always like the red teams products when they are competitive.

I went and used a Noctua NH-U9S for my mini itx build. Not the biggest cooler but it fits nicely and is super quiet. It doesn't have any clearance issues with my graphics card or ram. I am using a corsair 250D case for my build. I used to like water cooling but after multiple closed loop hardware failures/leaks I stay away from that stuff for the foreseeable future. Last thing I need is a coolant leak on components I can't afford to replace. Lol. Otherwise the Noctua NH-U9S is a really solid air cooler.

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I won't be buying this. 800 USD is kinda steep for a TN panel with Gsync enabled. It wouldn't fit on my desk anyways. If there was something more reasonable on the market at around 400$ I would be interested. At 800 dollars though it's out of the realm of someone with a modest budget, like me. I can wait a couple years, when the technology drops in price.

Alot of things you just said I didn't say. I never said the i5-4690 performed the same as a FX-8350 and I also didn't say both of them were the same price, because they are not. I was just giving my opinion. I also said the AMD part was still valid, even if the I5-4690 outperforms it. It depended on his budget. I obviously see where this is going. I am definitely not pro-intel, I buy what can do the job and what I believe is adequate. If that does go against popular opinion on one website forum, so be it. I will just refrain from posting again.

I tend to disagree. We are in the twilight of computing, meaning future generations of cpus aren't getting all that much better. The technology has matured in it's current state, and until they start producing cpus out of new materials or have a breakthrough in computer technology it's just more of the same. Cpu's may get slightly better over generations and generations but really I have no reason to upgrade any of my existing machines for the foreseeable future. I think the FX-8350 is fine for now and probably for quite awhile longer, but that's my opinion.

I would say the i5-4690 would perform better in some applications, but you are paying a lot of extra money for a 10% or so more performance. If budget isn't an problem go with Intel. If budget is a problem, go with the AMD part. They will both do the job. Also why spend more on the K, if you aren't going to overclock? Sounds like you are building your cousin a machine and you don't want him messing around with that. Lol. I wouldn't if he doesn't know what he is doing.

I have a A10-6800k and use it in my lan party machine. I had a hard time even with water cooling to get the cpu temperatures under control. So what I did was I just turned off the turbo frequency in the computer bios and that fixed everything. It runs stable at 4.1 ghz and never goes above 50 c. I am running this: CPU - A10-6800k @ 4.1ghz MB - GA-F2A85XN-WIFI 8 GB of ram R9 270

I would totally go with the FX-8320 over a i3-Anything. I just went through helping a friend upgrade his i3-3220 to a i5-3570 because the dual core wasn't fast enough for most of the games he was beta testing. It set him back about 350 bucks since he didn't feel comfortable installing a CPU and had a professional do it. 8 cores vs 2 cores there is no comparison. Sure a dual core will run your games but that's it. You won't find it able to multi-task much, like stream games on twitch or watch movies on a second monitor. If you go with a dual core i3, you will be upgrading it right away to a quad core once you figure out your system. New games in the future will take advantage of more cores, I would consider a i3 to be baseline for today's games. BF4 isn't going to run awesome on a i3. It will take full advantage of a FX-8320 8 cores though. Also for your budget, AMD mainboards are generally cheaper and have more features than Intel mainboards. On the high end intel has better offerings, but at 700$ I would go with AMD.

I have 6 PCs i7-2700k (main computer at my home, no reason to upgrade this for gaming and light office work.) FX-8350 (computer I made when I visit at my parents.) A8-5600k (Built a guest computer for my friends when they come over and want to game.) A10-6800k (Lan party computer) FX-8120 (Backup machine in case all my machines decide to die or something catastrophic happens. I have had stuff like that happen before lol.) A crappy Centrino dual core laptop with a dead battery.