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AMD 8350 or i7 3770

ReliefWithBeef

ReliefWithBeef

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I will be using the system for gaming and video editing. Which would be better? I am aware an i5 is cheaper but I am willing to pay out for the i7. I have a 7850 and I feel my current FX 4100 is bottle necking it on crisis 3 and planet side 2.
Thanks guys
 
Martini1991 said:
I think out of those, the 8350 wins about 3 or 4 times.
Bad way to promote the FX8350 :p


I'd probably take the FX8320 given the OP's current platform and overclock it.
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And it's worth paying £200 more according to some wins, most of which will be unnoticeable? Bad way to to put it :p

FX-8350 is clearly better at multi threaded performance, only software is still behind and doesn't take advantage of the extra cores. So FX 8350 will be cheaper and offer better performance in the future

£150 vs £350 I think I know which one would be wort it ;)
 
dacads said:
And it's worth paying £200 more according to some wins, most of which will be unnoticeable? Bad way to to put it :p

FX-8350 is clearly better at multi threaded performance, only software still are behind and don't take advantage of this. So FX 8350 will be cheaper and offer better performance in the future

£150 vs £350 I think I know which one would be wort it ;)
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Not sure how to reply to this, because it's mainly full of crap.

Never said anything about choosing the i7, merely that suggesting the FX8350, and then given benchmarks with it getting destroyed is a bad way to promote it.

The i7 also isn't 200 quid extra, or 350 quid.

Even with the FX8350 core count, the core per core performance is still pretty poor, so even in situations where 8 threads can be used, it's not an FX8350 wins all the time situation, it's still got very inconsistent performance due to software.

The FMA extension set can help, that's rumoured to be the Crysis 3 performance advantage, but that'll be addressed with Haswell.
But the Crysis 3 thing is weird anyway (And that's not due to the AMD performance)

EDIT : Also, lets not forget, I opted to suggest the FX8320, but I don't feel the need to justify my vendor choice.
 
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I should have made clear I meant £300 more including the new motherboard that would be required

Don't see what else was "mainly crap".

Why would people throw about CPU names without justifying? Pointless really the OP needs to know why it has been recommended, might as well make a poll if no explaining will take place
 
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dacads said:
I should have made clear I meant £300 more including the new motherboard that would be required

Don't see what else was "mainly crap".
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Well there's only 3 lines, and two of those were prices that didn't make sense.
That's 66%, which is the majority.
The 2nd line isn't as black and white as you'd like it to be anyway.
 
dacads said:
And it's worth paying £200 more according to some wins, most of which will be unnoticeable? Bad way to to put it :p

FX-8350 is clearly better at multi threaded performance, only software is still behind and doesn't take advantage of the extra cores. So FX 8350 will be cheaper and offer better performance in the future

£150 vs £350 I think I know which one would be wort it ;)
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I wish this was true... but it isnt. :(
 
In your situation i would most likely go for the 8350, but saying that the 3770 is clearly better and upto you wether you think going intel with the extra mobo cost is worth it.
Personally i would wait for haswell and sell your mobo combo to pay towards it.
 
dacads said:
FX-8350 is clearly better at multi threaded performance, only software is still behind and doesn't take advantage of the extra cores.
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So basically despite having lower clock for clock single threaded performance than a Core 2 Duo, it is a great CPU because when software catches up (which for most software will most likely be sometime after the FX-8350 becomes obsolete) it will really shine? :P
 
Thanks for the reply guys, and the argument :p. I decided to go for the i7 and am installing my new mobo drivers now. Thanks for the input guys. Now my next upgrade will be crossfire 7850's and a new PSU.
 
The 8350 if you want more value for performance.

i7 if you don't mind paying extra for something better (but not GODLY better) as it's not value for performance
 
ReliefWithBeef said:
It's the GIGABYTE Z77-DS3H. I must say the improvement is massive. I'm a happy customer
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Yes definitely the right choice for games :)

You have to watch out for the amd fans boys here they will encourage you to buy an amd processor for gaming even though in 9/10 games intel is the better choice.
 
dacads said:
My vote would be for the FX-8350, it outperforms the 3770k in Crysis and the extra cores will be beneficial for video editing and rendering

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/697?vs=551
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Points:

1. One game should not biased an opinion, when the 3770k will utterly crush the 8320 in the remaining games.

2. Depending on benchmarks the 8320 crysis 3 benchmarks should be taking with a grain of salt.

Tom's hardware have shown the minimum fps to be much slower than the 3550. 20 vs 30 fps.

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I wanted to get a bulldozer when they where released, but the platform is dated as well as the cpu performance beening behind the intel chips.

From a gaming perspective, it's much safer to go 3770k than the 8320. Thats not to say the 8320 is not good. I would LOVE to have 8 cores in my pc, but my brain told me to get a 3570k.

But I doubt you will really regret getting a 8320, depending on what your upgrading from, it's just safer and you get better overall performance accross the board with the 3770k.

(My views are purely from a gaming perspective)
 
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good choice im not a intel fanboy but amds fall short on everything compared to the intel especially the 3570k and the 3770k they are great
 
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