New AMD gaming system

alrosh7

alrosh7

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I am building an AMD system, with a NVIDIA card, but I have not been into building computers for 4-5 years. I am ditching Intel because of the fact that it changes cpu sockets every 7minutes. I need to build a system that will allow me to upgrade the cpu even after 1-2 years later without changing the motherboard and everything else.

Which AMD socket are you using for gaming? And which motherboard do you suggest for gaming?
 
why not just buy an intel chip that wont need upgrading for 3 years +?

amd are far behind intel and it will be more money efficient to splash out on a good intel chip now than buy a rubbish amd one only to replace it a couple years later with a slightly better one. + AMD do change sockets, id guess in 2 years time there would be a new socket out?

in fact, my dads pc was bought 4 years ago and he has only upgraded his gfx card once and can still play bf3 high settings smoothly. he bought a really good intel chip then.

two friend i know built a new pc from scratch 1half -2years ago and both there machines still arnt on par with my fathers. one of these friends has just gone out and bought an I7 as he has seen how poor the amd chips are and how un future proof they really are.
 
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AMD socket may stay the same but with every generation you will find though the new cpu will fit the motherboard wont always support it anyway.

But as above Fx6300/3570 would be the way to go. But factor in with bulldozer/piledriver you need a quality motherboard to get the most out of them while 1155 socket chips can be clocked pretty hard on cheaper boards.
 
alrosh7 said:
No, I just want to build a PC that will take me as long as possible.
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Well given 4 year old socket 1366 systems are still hammering through, and people have ran 3 iterations of AMD CPU's in that time (Technically, people could have been through 4 chips and 3 different sockets with AMD in that time), I'd have to say it was the Intel rigs that have lasted longest.

Get the best of your budget, regardless of AMD/Intel.
If the best your budget can do is an i5 set up, go for it, if the best you can do is an FX63, go for it.
 
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Martini1991 said:
Well given 4 year old socket 1366 systems are still hammering through, and people have ran 3 iterations of AMD CPU's in that time (Technically, people could have been through 4 chips and 3 different sockets with AMD in that time), I'd have to say it was the Intel rigs that have lasted longest.

Get the best of your budget, regardless of AMD/Intel.
If the best your budget can do is an i5 set up, go for it, if the best you can do is an FX63, go for it.
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^^^ This tbh - I've been on socket 1366 since 2009 and I doubt I'll even upgrade to haswell when it's released. At the end of the day games don't cripple my system whereas I bet most people on a 2009 AMD system will have upgraded or will need to before I do.

Just becuase Intel release more products, doesn't mean that they are necessary :D
 
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^^^ This tbh - I've been on socket 1366 since 2009 and I doubt I'll even upgrade to haswell when it's released. At the end of the day games don't cripple my system whereas I bet most people on a 2009 AMD system will have upgraded or will need to before I do.

Just becuase Intel release more products, doesn't mean that they are necessary :D
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Some people forget socket 1366 is older than AM3 too (Which got replaced last year for AM3+) and Phenom II CPU's (Which landed initially on socket AM2+ Q1 of 2009, whereas Socket 1366 launched Q4 2008)
 
alrosh7 said:
I am ditching Intel because of the fact that it changes cpu sockets every 7minutes.
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LoL, maybe so, but at the end of the day its upto you if you want to upgrade whether it be Intel or AMD.

I'm still using a i7 920:4.2GHz still kicks butt., waiting to see how Haswell performs. :)
 
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