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aranw

aranw

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Wanting to upgrade my rig as some of the hardware I currently have is old and wanting to play the following...

  • Diablo 3
  • BF3
  • Skyrim

Am looking as well to buy a decent motherboard and get a cheaper CPU to start with and later upgrade in a couple of months time for a much higher/faster CPU.

I've seen lots of videos on Bulldozer and it looks good, cheap, eight cores and powerful, but I've heard lots of bad news about performance so its kind of put me off now and am totally unsure of what I should go for now instead...

Is a Bulldozer CPU worth while investment?

If it is am willing to go straight for the 8150 eight core one.
 
For gaming, go i5-2500K with a P67 or Z68 motherboard.

Bulldozer is a waste of time for 99% of people and the HyperThreading found in the i7s are of little use to gamers.
 
As others have said, an i5 is a great choice, a bulldozer is a poor choice. But I'll just mention that a Phenom II quad 3GHz or up isn't going to be a bottleneck for any of those games, and would work out much cheaper. Just a budget option; take the i5 if you have the money :)
 
iBSOD said:
For gaming, you shouldn't need more than 8gb, or even 4gb.
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Yeah I know for gaming, should have mentioned before I may be doing some 4k video editing. Its a possibility and if thats the case I would end up upgrading the RAM to the max that the board can handle...

To begin with am probably going to purchase 4/8gb...

Budget am looking at is about £500-700...

Already have a case sorted, and GPU (9800 GTX+) which should be ok I am thinking? This is something that would get upgrade in about a year or so...
 
Moved from an overclocked AMD 955 BE at 3.8GHz to a 2500k which I've got running at 4.5GHz with turbo boost and it blows the AMD away.

You won't be disappointed.
 
Go for a i5 5200K, & 8gb memory only about £15 difference between 4gb & 8gb prices.

Some of the MSI boards are on promotion at the moment, to claim back your vat.
 
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