Upgrade From AMD?

[ferchkc09]

Hey All,

 

I'm currently running a build with an FX-8300 on an ASUS M5A99FX chipset OC'ed to 4.1 Ghz.  I'm not having any stability issues with the OC and the temps are reasonable using a Kraken X61.  My question is, i have an opportunity to potentially upgrade to a skylake based system, most likely the i5 6600k.  

 

Other than the fact that i am going to get better single core performance with the intel platform, am i truly going to see a huge performance gain here?  I'm just trying to think, besides the advantages of going to intel, what would i really be gaining by making this move? Is this upgrade just a no brainer?

 

I most likely will sell the chip, motherboard and RAM to a friend to further offset some of this cost.

 

Let me know your thoughts.

[SLAYR]

There might be a little but of improvement, but there won't be mind shattering results, games are using more cores now, so the extra cores on the fx help out a lot.

[ferchkc09]

thanks for the quick reply, that is something that I was thinking.  I'm running the sapphire rx470 and am hitting 60+ fps on Battlefield 1 beta on ultra and overwatch on ultra.  So I'm leaning towards the side of the fence that this upgrade would not necessarily be worth it, but I kind of want to be part of the intel fam ha

[swordsman247]

10 minutes ago, ferchkc09 said:

Hey All,

 

I'm currently running a build with an FX-8300 on an ASUS M5A99FX chipset OC'ed to 4.1 Ghz.  I'm not having any stability issues with the OC and the temps are reasonable using a Kraken X61.  My question is, i have an opportunity to potentially upgrade to a skylake based system, most likely the i5 6600k.  

 

Other than the fact that i am going to get better single core performance with the intel platform, am i truly going to see a huge performance gain here?  I'm just trying to think, besides the advantages of going to intel, what would i really be gaining by making this move? Is this upgrade just a no brainer?

 

I most likely will sell the chip, motherboard and RAM to a friend to further offset some of this cost.

 

Let me know your thoughts.

Well as you mentioned better single core workloads. otherwise not too much. The new tech and features like m.2 and other pcie based storage are a plus amd doesn't have yet along with thunderbolt and usb type c. If you don't care about these things right now wait a bit for the new amd zen and see how things are then.

[ferchkc09]

Just now, swordsman247 said:

Well as you mentioned better single core workloads. otherwise not too much. The new tech and features like m.2 and other pcie based storage are a plus amd doesn't have yet along wi thunderbolt and usb type c. If you don't care about these things right now wait a bit for the new amd zen and see how things are then.

That's a good call regarding Zen, I suppose at this point it's probably worth waiting to see what happens with the Zen launch.  

[Nena Trinity]

Wait for Zen!

[incarnate]

3 hours ago, ferchkc09 said:

That's a good call regarding Zen, I suppose at this point it's probably worth waiting to see what happens with the Zen launch.  

It is worth waiting. The i5 isn't going anywhere and Zen should be coming out in a few months (hopefully). Definitely worth seeing what will be available for how much.

 

I'm hoping that a 6 core Zen cpu would be around the cost of an i7 or so. i don't personally think that AMD will match Intel's pricing, they need marketshare.