benchmarks I3 IVY vs 8150 and 8350

[dunn2010]

A friend of mine owns a rig with an 8150 in it. Other day he was saying how 8150 was better than the I7 and destroyed I5. after i sent him some benchmarks comparing the I7 and I5 to the 8150 for gaming purposes he soon saw it was other way around. (bless him)

his next argument was that the 8150 was so much cheaper than the I5 so wasn't worth paying extra for the I5.

i then put my neck on the line and said i reckon the I3 Ivy could boss the 8150 and keep up with the 8350 but struggling to find any benchmarks to prove this. has anyone got any links to sites with a direct relation and comparison between the 8150/new 8350 and the IVY I3?

cheers

Hes also just forked out for 16 gig of ram and wasn't happy when i told him he should cancel order, and get some faster 8 gig ram. as he only does some light gaming and will struggle to use 8 gig never mind 16. so would ebenfit more from faster ram rather than more...

his mid set seems to be quantity over quality, all he raves on about is 8 cores@ 4.6 ghz and now having 16 gb of ram 1600mhz. wheras id prefer i5 4 cores @ 3.4 and 8 gig of 2400 mhz ram

Anywho , any bench marks appreciated thanks

 

[dunn2010]

Thanks Hono, ill have to bookmark that site.

I never pay attention to site names i usually just google when im looking for something and the same sites tend to pop up.

 

[dunn2010]

It's not just the number of cores it's the architecture of the CPU that matters.

Exactly my mate doesn't seem to get that. as i said hes all about quantity over quality. he see's more cores and assumes its better

I do love to suggest Llano or trinity for laptops but I do struggle to "justify" it for desktop rigs

Yeah, only reason i would suggest for desktop is cheap HTPC build / someone whos on an insanely tight gaming build budget

Stulid did an interesting piledriver spec last night. The CPU and mobo were cheaper which helped pay for a 7950 over a 7850. He was partly joking doing the spec but it was scary how easily you could justify the spec for a gaming rig

gonna look for this now ^^, link would be appreciated in case i can't find (as you can tell i'm hopeless when looking for things)

 

[dunn2010]

Haha, that entire thread was a good read

TBF as stulid mentioned later on if the fella was a die hard AMD fan, was a very viable build, i wouldn't be able to bring myself to click buy on that build but im sure theres many out there who would ^^