AMD upgrade to Intel?

[HippY]

Hey guys

 

I do not intend to make a flame war, so bear with me please

 

At the moment I have an FX 8320 at stock clocks, but on a decent mobo (Asus 970 Evo, I cannot remember the codes, but 8+2 digit powerphase)

It is paired with a HD 7770 at the moment, on a low res monitor

 

My final plan is to get a mulit monitor workstation for a program that needs a light hardware, so no need of i7 ( it runs perfectly now to, and multi monitor can be used at HD 7770 too)

 

I am planning to make my PC beefed up/ buy a new one. I want it to have decent hardware (graphics will be R9 290, probably, RAM 8GB, that is enough at the moment) and to play games in medium settings 3x HD or high on 1 monitor only

 

My question: Is there a large difference at games between an FX 8320 ( I will OC it to 4.something safe) and an i5 4690k/non K (maybe slight OC) that worth the £300 to buy new mobo with CPU?

 

This CPU seems to be good for me under HD and for programs, but I am not sure how it will work at 3x HD medium /highish or 1080p high

I am not planning to play games heavily ( few hours a week or so) , the plans are GTA 5 ( fcuk knows, if its half badly optimised as IV it still horrible) and The Crew, and Project Cars probably, next to programming and designing electronic circuits

[ZacDaMan72]

PLEASE GET THE i5

[dragoon20005]

if you think you are not happy with your AMD platform then upgrade to Intel

 

 

if not i don't see the reason why you need to upgrade

 

just get a 290 and the RAM

 

and OC the hell out of your AMD FX 8 cores

[HippY]

PLEASE GET THE i5

but why?

 

I know, IPC, better cores, lower TDP n stuff, but will it be a better solution with a Z97 board than the FX 8320, or do as I say, OC it the max, and see what happens?

How does FX handles CF/SLI(ofc with a 990 mobo)

I am thinking about 780/290 SLI slowly

[dragoon20005]

but why?

 

I know, IPC, better cores, lower TDP n stuff, but will it be a better solution with a Z97 board than the FX 8320, or do as I say, OC it the max, and see what happens?

How does FX handles CF/SLI(ofc with a 990 mobo)

I am thinking about 780/290 SLI slowly

if you need to go SLi or CrossFire

 

then it make sense to pick the i5

 

the FX8320 will limit multi gpu setups but still ok for single GPU

 

 

fps difference will be like 20-30fps against i5 and FX in most games when you are going multi GPU setups

[Sintezza]

i would say stay with your current FX8320.

Its a great cpu for the tasks you are doing mainaly.

 

The i5 would not be any significant upgrade at all for those tasks.

Just trow a Sapphire 290 TriX in there. and 8 GB ram.

[Sintezza]

if you need to go SLi or CrossFire

 

then it make sense to pick the i5

 

the FX8320 will limit multi gpu setups but still ok for single GPU

 

 

fps difference will be like 20-30fps against i5 and FX in most games when you are going multi GPU setups

 

every cpu limmits multi gpu setups, at a certain point.

 

Also not all games will be significantly improved by the i5, mainly the games that are still relay on single threaded performance.

like skyrim, dayZ,lol,wow and such. mmo´s

But there are also games on which there is not much of a diffrence between amd or intel.

Games like Crysis3,Farcry, tombraider, bioshock, BF4, Need for speed.  and what not.

These games relay more on GPU power rather then single threaded cpu power.

 

Since topic starter does allot of other things, which needs light hardware, there is totaly no point to switch to intel.

In my personal opinnion this would be like trowing money in the sea!

Since topic starter is not a heavy gamer, there is totaly no point of spending over $300 for an intel cpu + mobo.

He can better spend the money on a better GPU, and 8GB ram.

And be happy with this current setup for the upcomming 2/3 years, then you can allways decide to switch to intel, after that, then there will be complete new platforms on the market at that time.

 

[patrickjp93]

As lightweight as you make your work sound, just dump in the 8GB of good, low-latency ram (within any given speed class choose 1 or 2 lower CAS latency than the standards (9 @ 1600, 10 @ 1866 are standards)) and a strong GPU like the R9 290/X.

[harrynowl]

Based on what you're looking to do I think you may be fine with your FX.

 

As you're looking to play games that aren't out yet we don't know how optimized they are for multi-core platforms, so it might be best to wait for now. Rockstar are apparently considering a mantle API implementation for GTA5.

 

I wouldn't do SLI/X-Fire high end cards on an AMD platform personally, generally you'll run into a bottleneck pretty quickly with the low IPC of FX.

 

Regarding overclocking, the M5A97 EVO (R2.0) has a 6+2 phase but it's a pretty decent one. I found it was good for around 1.44v without toasting itself.

[Humbug]

Don't think you should upgrade.

 

All the new generation APIs; Mantle, DX12 + OpenGL Next are talking about lower CPU overhead and spreading the load more effectively across multiple cores. Mantle has already demonstrated that in practice. So if I were you I would hang on to the fx-8320, plus it should overclock past 4Ghz without too much trouble.

[i_build_nanosuits]

The FX will play games perfectly fine with the R9 290 across 3 screens, when you get into really high resolution gameplay like that you are MUCH more likely to be slowed down by your GPU solution so the CPU isn't really a concern anymore

for MOST games...as you seem to expect medium settings you won't be disapointed

 

If you we're to buy a new gaming CPU, then intel i5 would be the better pick but since you already have an FX chip why not use that...if you aren't satisfied with the performance in some games

and you happen to play those a lot then maybe down the road consider an upgrade to an i5 or an i7?

[dragoon20005]

yea i was pointing out the advantage of the FX and the i5

 

he was mentioning about multi GPU setups

 

i did suggest about getting the RAM, 290 and OC the FX to decent speeds provided his VRMs and CPU are cooled well