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So I'm planning on building a new PC that would be able would be able to perform games pretty well and also be able to run multiple VMs. From what I've heard is that the physical cores of the AMD perform pretty well. 

 

Right now I'm leaning toward the FX-9590 or any of the 8 core CPUs from AMD

 

What are your thoughts? Are there any better choices?

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Don't buy a 9590. You're wasting your money on both the CPU itself, and motherboard required.

 

How much do you have to spend on both CPU and mobo? Would you be able to get an H97 board and a Xeon E3-1231 V3?

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I would rather go with the lower end xeons like the 1231v3

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Don't buy a 9590. You're wasting your money on both the CPU itself, and motherboard required.

 

How much do you have to spend on both CPU and mobo? Would you be able to get an H97 board and a Xeon E3-1231 V3?I 

I was thinking between $400-600 for the CPU and motherboard

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For the love of everything get the 4790k... Go in the cinebench section and look, the i7 at 4.4-4.9 out right beats the amds @ 5ghz +.

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I was thinking of getting the 4790k from the Intel side. I do plan on overclocking as well but it seems there are those that say to get the Xeon E3-1231V3. So I guess keep feeding me your thoughts.

Since you're planning to do overclocking go for the i7. The Xeon is only for people who don't want to OC, as it gives you a great deal on a locked quad core chip that has HT.

 

BUT if you don't mind the extra cost of going for DDR4, $600 can get you a 5820K which will benefit you even more for running multiple VMs as it's a 6-core chip with HT.

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Since you're planning to do overclocking go for the i7. The Xeon is only for people who don't want to OC, as it gives you a great deal on a locked quad core chip that has HT.

 

BUT if you don't mind the extra cost of going for DDR4, $600 can get you a 5820K which will benefit you even more for running multiple VMs as it's a 6-core chip with HT.

Thanks, I'll definitely keep this in mind.

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So I'm planning on building a new PC that would be able would be able to perform games pretty well and also be able to run multiple VMs. From what I've heard is that the physical cores of the AMD perform pretty well. 

 

Right now I'm leaning toward the FX-9590 or any of the 8 core CPUs from AMD

 

What are your thoughts? Are there any better choices?

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Yea... Considering the 5820k is only 20 dollars more than the 4790k and a msi x99s sli plus is all you'd ever need @200 dollars its hard to justify skipping x99 at such a relatively low premium over comparable z97 featured systems (as in with mid-high end boards like the gaming 7 etc).

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