Intel or AMD?

[Napussei]

Which one would be a better choice for gaming and future proofing your build, AMD FX 8350 or Intel 4670k? LGA1150 motherboards are much newer and with better features and the Haswell chips are new atleast, but AMD has an 8-core processor which could be better since games are starting to favor multiple cores/threads, and it's a bit cheaper. Please advice, this has been bothering me a while now.

[HirgaLTTki]

Pure gaming wouldnt need all 8 cores though. I would still say that 4670 would be a better choice based on what you are doing

 

Hope this article would help you decide:

http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/446/AMD_FX-Series_FX-8350_vs_Intel_Core_i5_i5-4670K.html

[joelthezombie15]

Mkay, so AMD has more cores but they are weaker cores that intels cores and yes they are clocked higher than intel but again, weaker. So AMD is great but the extra cores and Ghz mean close to nothing. Also gaming is not CPU intensive anymore so it actually wont make much of a difference greater than maybe at most 5fps. So purely for gaming go intel.

 

Now Haswell. I woudnt get haswell personally. It is having problems. All haswells arent even, or even close too each other in terms of well anything. Some are really hot others not so much some OC well others dont some have problems with RAM if you OC them. Its just a crap shoot with haswell and as i said before games arent CPU intensive anymore so you can get away with a 3570k and it will be fine and you can OC it rather well. Imo

[s3ns3]

since games are starting to favor multiple cores/threads

when that will happen the i5 will get the boost too,don`t worry.in todays games not even a sandy i5 is not stressed

[jonasa97]

Some people believe that the 4670K is the only option. If you are purely gaming I would recommend going with AMD in case you are on a budget. However the difference is minimal so if you're not limited by budget go with the i5 4670K.

[qwertywarrior]

Mkay, so AMD has more cores but they are weaker cores that intels cores and yes they are clocked higher than intel but again, weaker. So AMD is great but the extra cores and Ghz mean close to nothing. Also gaming is not CPU intensive anymore so it actually wont make much of a difference greater than maybe at most 5fps. So purely for gaming go intel.

 

Now Haswell. I woudnt get haswell personally. It is having problems. All haswells arent even, or even close too each other in terms of well anything. Some are really hot others not so much some OC well others dont some have problems with RAM if you OC them. Its just a crap shoot with haswell and as i said before games arent CPU intensive anymore so you can get away with a 3570k and it will be fine and you can OC it rather well. Imo

what the hell

where did u get that from i never knew about this and im addicted to tech websites

link me something

[joelthezombie15]

what the hell

where did u get that from i never knew about this and im addicted to tech websites

link me something

On what ? 

[qwertywarrior]

On what ? 

i bolded it out in the quote

[joelthezombie15]

what the hell

where did u get that from i never knew about this and im addicted to tech websites

link me something

There says a bit about the ram problem

 

http://forums.videocardz.com/topic/431-intels-haswell-usb-30-issue-skip-first-round/

There are a few other problems

 

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/382267/intel-haswell-hotter-and-slower-than-expected

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/03/hard-choices-intels-orrible-new-haswell-chips/

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20130606231316_Retail_Versions_of_Intel_Core_i_Haswell_Are_Hotter_and_Slower_Than_Expected_Report.html

 

There ya go.

[qwertywarrior]

There says a bit about the ram problem

 

http://forums.videocardz.com/topic/431-intels-haswell-usb-30-issue-skip-first-round/

There are a few other problems

 

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/382267/intel-haswell-hotter-and-slower-than-expected

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/03/hard-choices-intels-orrible-new-haswell-chips/

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20130606231316_Retail_Versions_of_Intel_Core_i_Haswell_Are_Hotter_and_Slower_Than_Expected_Report.html

 

There ya go.

first link talks about privacy issues

[joelthezombie15]

first link talks about privacy issues

If you watch it it right off the bat talks about the haswell ram problems. It starts around 4:20 btw.