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AMD vs Intel (Mostly for gaming)

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AMD Pros:

Great price/performance ratio

8 cores for future multitasking

Cheaper motherboards

 

Cons:

High TDP

PCI-E 2.0

Dead socket

Lower IPC's (games like WoW get hurt by this)

Terrible temperature sensors

 

Intel Pros:

Top notch performance (i7-4770K does best an FX-8350)

Hyperthreading helps for heavy tasking

Runs cool

Boards support newer features

pretty accurate temperature sensors

 

Intel Cons:

Very pricey

Changes sockets every 1-2 series

Not very focused on the enthusiast platform

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It's best to plan you build as a whole and not part by part with separated budgets.

I am. It's just that $300 is what I'm willing to spend on the CPU. 

The only things that I put anything close to separated budgets on were the GPU and CPU.

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I am. It's just that $300 is what I'm willing to spend on the CPU. 

The only things that I put anything close to separated budgets on were the GPU and CPU.

Not a good idea in general. It's easy to end up with an unbalanced build that way. 

You spend the money on the build in the end anyway so how you specifically spend the money shouldn't matter as long as it adds up less than the budget. 

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Not a good idea in general. It's easy to end up with an unbalanced build that way. 

You spend the money on the build in the end anyway so how you specifically spend the money shouldn't matter as long as it adds up less than the budget. 

So this would be unbalanced?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/22oQE

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So this would be unbalanced?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/22oQE

Not really. It could be cheaper or better though. 

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By replacing the CPU and motherboard?

Nothing is finalized yet, so it's prone to change.

By replacing everything but the os.

Are you planning to buy soon?

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By replacing everything but the os.

Are you planning to buy soon?

Depends on when I figure out what to get.

I haven't bought a lot of what's on the list.

All I have is the case and PSU, because I've had them for a while and wasn't using them.

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Depends on when I figure out what to get.

I haven't bought a lot of what's on the list.

All I have is the case and PSU, because I've had them for a while and wasn't using them.

What psu do you have?

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EVGA SuperNOVA NEX750G 80+ Gold

How's this look? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/22pGn

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Looks great. Will it perform better/the same as the other one?

The $200 price drop is nice.

Pretty similar performance. 

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Looks great. Will it perform better/the same as the other one?

Because this one seems insanely cheap compared to what I had planned

 

In gaming perspective, on-par or even slightly better (R9-280X = factory overclocked HD 7970 GHz Edition).

 

In Rendering work, AMD system should stand out a bit more, due to the extra cores on hand.

 

Aftermarket CPU cooler will allow for overclocking on the FX-8320.

Stock cooler on the i5-4670K, not so much...

 

IMO, Seagate HDD > Hitachi (now part of WD but still kinda seperate) HDD

Seagate = WD

 

 

If you want to push it a bit more to the $1000 - $1100 range:

1) Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 or ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z !!

2) make it a 240GB / 256GB SSD instead of a 120GB / 128GB (I have two 120GB SSD's, wish I had a bit more space)

3) FX-8350 (same as the FX-8320 but clocked higher from factory...and higher binned chip)

AMD Ryzen 9000 Rig

  • AMD R7 9800X3D + Alphacool CORE 1 w/ Performance Mount Kit + Thermal Grizzly AM5 Contact Frame
  • Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro Ice
  • 32GB (16GB X2) G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6400
  • Sapphire NITRO+ 6800 XT Special Edition + EKwb Full Cover Block
  • Custom Loop w/ 2x 360mm Radiators
  • WD SN850X + WD SN750 + Samsung 980
  • EVGA P2 850W + Red/White CableMod Cables
  • Lian-Li O11 Dynamic EVO XL

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  • AMD R7-5800X
  • Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro AC
  • 32GB (16GB X 2) Crucial Ballistix RGB DDR4-3600
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  • EKwb D-RGB 360mm AIO
  • Intel 660p NVMe 1TB + Crucial MX500 1TB + WD Black 1TB HDD
  • EVGA P2 850W + White CableMod cables
  • Lian-Li LanCool II Mesh - White

Intel i7-8086K / Z390 Rig (Decommissioned Q2' 2025)

Intel i7-6800K / X99 Rig (Officially Decommissioned, Dead CPU returned to Intel)
Intel i5-4690K / Z97 Rig (Decommissioned)

AMD FX-8350 / 990FX Rig (Decommissioned)

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T / 890FX Rig (Decommissioned)

 

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I would buy an 8350 and a nice cooler so you can overclock A LOT(like me)

[AMD Athlon 64 Mobile 4000+ Socket 754 | Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro nForce3 | OCZ 2GB DDR PC3200 | Sapphire HD 3850 512MB AGP | 850 Evo | Seasonic 430W | Win XP/10]

 

 

 

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