Why does Tek Syndicate always...

[sk8ermanblue]

Damn that hella sucks bro. I hate frys... Best buy needs to step their shit up when it comes to pc componets

Use newegg.com

[SoftenButterCream]

Not me personally, but people probably have bought stuff solely off of his recommendations. 

 

I wouldn't want to build an AMD rig right now using the AM3+ platform, but that's just me.

Eh, its a matter of preference. I don't really care which brand as long as it gives me over 60 FPS, and gets the job done. 

[SoftenButterCream]

Use newegg.com

I do. I'm just saying Best Buy needs to step it up lol

[hak4fun]

 

That's silly. Intel and AMD both have great options and the better one will often vary with pricing and availability. 

 

 

Hehe, I have my mediaPC in a cardboard box. but its less ghetto. You actually wouldn't notice, until you got up close.

 

I actually started a topic like this. Why go with intel over AMD. I got the answer of, Well because AMD goes with more lower powered coress. And intel goes less cores, more power. And most games aren't omptimized for more than a quadcore anyways. 

 

I have been debating getting a higher core lower price AMD. And going with a lower core, higher price intel. I would go intel, because everyone says too, but more cores should handle my rendering/video editing better. Vs going with intel less cores, and being maybe better with gaming.

[Speedyv]

I do. I'm just saying Best Buy needs to step it up lol

 

Newegg gets good deals on product because they buy large, being pretty much the top hardware seller. And can sell for less.

Best Buy can't give buyers deals and cut a profit if they sell @ Newegg prices.

 

Eh, its a matter of preference. I don't really care which brand as long as it gives me over 60 FPS, and gets the job done. 

 

Well if you buy a 8320 you can't upgrade (9590) and if you get a 6300 you can only upgrade to a 8320 but still won't get a huge leap in multicore performance. If you are at the bottom of the price spectrum and don't care about upgrade paths, a FX is a good deal.

[SoftenButterCream]

Newegg gets good deals on product because they buy large, being pretty much the top hardware seller. And can sell for less.

Best Buy can't give buyers deals and cut a profit if they sell @ Newegg prices.

 

 

Well if you buy a 8320 you can't upgrade (9590) and if you get a 6300 you can only upgrade to a 8320 but still won't get a huge leap in multicore performance. If you are at the bottom of the price spectrum and don't care about upgrade paths, a FX is a good deal.

Eh. I didn't game much. So i went for Intel i5 and R9 270X. Pretty amazing combo i must say. I got my friend a 8320 and 970. Lol

[sk8ermanblue]

Newegg gets good deals on product because they buy large, being pretty much the top hardware seller. And can sell for less.

Best Buy can't give buyers deals and cut a profit if they sell @ Newegg prices.

 

 

Well if you buy a 8320 you can't upgrade (9590) and if you get a 6300 you can only upgrade to a 8320 but still won't get a huge leap in multicore performance. If you are at the bottom of the price spectrum and don't care about upgrade paths, a FX is a good deal.

this is why i have a 6300 that is OC'd. it is cheap. it works and i have room in the budget for a decent graphics card and SSD. if i would have went intel i would have had to either get a lower end gpu or no SSD. This wasn't going to work out for me personally because i much prefer the performance of an SSD over a slightly better processor.

[Dabombinable]

On a side note this is the list of CPUs that have been in my families computers which have been getting passed down to me.

AMD 286

AMD 386 DK-40

Cyrix 486 (was slower than the DK so it was switched back)

Covington and a replacement Mendocino celeron - still have both and they suck

550MHz AMD K6-2 (the processor that started the integration of graphics into the CPU)

Copermine 667MHz pentium 3 (decent CPU-had loads of issues though with the design)

Pentium 4 3.2GHz (in an old Compaq Presario R3000-brilliant laptop and the best quality computer I have ever used, has a 2.5" FDD, DVD burner, wifi, bluetooth and its battery was still charging fully on the 17/11/2014 11 years after it was bought)

Celeron M 1.6GHz

Centrino Duo 2.16GHz

Core 2 Duo E8500 (in my media center PC)

Phenom II P920 1.6GHz

Core i5 4440 (was the only option available without paying more for the Mobo)

[ComradeHX]

Say get a AMD CPU and pair it with a high end GPU? I'm not hating on AMD, i use one as my HTPC nowadays. 

1. Tek Syndicate is a bit of AMD-biased.

2. it's okay to go for a bit underpowered CPU for gaming as long as your saved money on CPU goes onto buying GPU.

[Spev]

I do. I'm just saying Best Buy needs to step it up lol

Yeah I looked at some GPUs one day, they were all overpriced and didn't have the latest models.....

[Mush Brain]

CPU's i have personally used.

 

Intel: Core 2 Duo P7450/ T6600. Pentium D 930/ i5 2500k/ i7 4770k/ i7 3930k/ i7 5930k

 

AMD: Phenom II 840/ 955 BE/ 555 BE/ FX 8320/ Athlon II x4 640/ 

 

From experience.

 

5930k>>3930k>>>>4770k>>>>>>>2500k>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FX 8320>>955 BE>>>>>840>>>>>Athlon 640>555 BE>>>P7450>>T6600>>>>>>>>>PentiumD

[Clyne]

What i used

Intel: Core 2 Duo P8600, i7 840QM, i5 2450M, 2.7GHZ Single Core Celeron, Pentium M 1.8GHZ

AMD: Athlon 64 3200+, Athlon 64 X2 3600+, FX-8320, A10-5745M

[SurvivorNVL]

Tek Syndicate recommends AMD mostly because of it being good bang for your buck, and even though it's using an old platform(Bulldozer) AMD is still somewhat relevant even today and keeping up with gaming performance and all as well as for streaming, so despite it being on an older architecture and running hotter / with more juice - it still is ridiculously good performance for the price and one day we'll get AMD's Zen arch and that may be a real game changer in terms of price, performance, and computing.  I think 2015 / 2016 may be the years that AMD makes a come-back and reaffirms a place as it is definitely needed to push innovation and competition.  ^^

[SoftenButterCream]

Tek Syndicate recommends AMD mostly because of it being good bang for your buck, and even though it's using an old platform(Bulldozer) AMD is still somewhat relevant even today and keeping up with gaming performance and all as well as for streaming, so despite it being on an older architecture and running hotter / with more juice - it still is ridiculously good performance for the price and one day we'll get AMD's Zen arch and that may be a real game changer in terms of price, performance, and computing.  I think 2015 / 2016 may be the years that AMD makes a come-back and reaffirms a place as it is definitely needed to push innovation and competition.  ^^

Hopefully, it might force intel to lower its prices

[SurvivorNVL]

Hopefully, it might force intel to lower its prices

I hope for that!  I am actually hoping the AMD 3xx series of GPU's actually throws nVidia through a loop and they try to push to a newer arch sooner because of possibly the 3xx gpu's having amazing price, performance, -and- beating out both the 980 and possibly their more than likely in existence but secretive Titan II, 980ti(GM200) or 1080(if they'd skip to it in Quarter 1 / 2 of 2015).  So, here's hoping 2015 / 2016 is the year of ridiculous bang for your buck and competition so we the consumers win!

[Yoinkerman]

very few people on these forums have used multiple performance tiers and brands of hardware for each generation cycle. the vast majority probably buy a new cpu or gpu once ever few years, and only have experience with that specific piece of hardware. the rest is just people repeating what they see/hear others saying, true or false it doesn't matter... as long as it confirms their bias they will repeat it.

 

This basically.  People just parrot whatever seems to be the flavour without their own critical thinking, or apply their own needs to someone else's builds.  So many times I see "oh well an intel is better for rendering" when the guy only wants to play games.

[simson0606]

a lot of guys here like intel better, but if you want a cheap but still very powerfull gaming rig AMD is hard to beat... though most enthusiasts don't like to hear that

[SkilledRebuilds]

I've lived with my brother for most of my life (still do) as it's cheaper, we both live our own lives, independent and such... but with cheaper rent

 

I'm a system builder, and I do prefer Intel over AMD, but will build both of course...

He's an EX-system builder and he prefers AMD......................... ^Also this.

 

Due to this, We both have had much access to a lot of varied CPU's in the last 10-12 years (that we've been building) from both sides (we generally upgrade our systems every 12-30 months and have had PC's since before that 12 years too) but we also cater for other peoples builds and get access to parts we don't buy ourselves.

 

Due to that we live together, it's easy to do comparisons and we still both feel justified in our purchases after our own testing and use cases...

 

Willingness to learn, and to find out the truth about certain situations/use cases has helped both our reasoning's behind our logic.

 

There are use cases where AMD is perfect, there are use cases where Intel is perfect.

Depends on what you do with your system, and how much you REALLY research into something without a 'blanket' over your eyes.

[Guest]

Oh yeah, for the battle of the titans see:

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/263646-how-is-the-fx-8350-for-games/

 

Somebody is saying TekSyndicate is also unreliable, and bashing AMD and then others are defending AMD etc.

 

 

It's a bloodbath

[Psykomantis00]

That is true, but the guys over here always say avoid AMD which is why some new forum people are always struggling to choose what to go with.

 

That's because the majority of people here have no idea what they are talking about. They cling to benchmarks yet have no real experience with anything but the mid tier intel cpu they use to play minecraft, yet they watched a video that Linus made so they are now experts. It's like the mac vs pc debate. 90% of the people that throw jabs have never owned a mac or even used one for an extended period of time. It's just idiots being idiots. It's pretty normal around here. 

[SoftenButterCream]

Oh yeah, for the battle of the titans see:

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/263646-how-is-the-fx-8350-for-games/

Somebody is saying TekSyndicate is also unreliable, and bashing AMD and then others are defending AMD etc.

It's a bloodbath

Lmfao i told @Slick and @Linus_tech to close it, but they didnt

[Guest]

Lmfao i told @Slick and @Linus_tech to close it, but they didnt

Yeah, don't know if they even saw it.