Does AMD even cross your mind?

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I've been looking at the forums, and now it's been a long time since anyone's even recommended/Enquired about a High end AMD build. I'm guilty of immediately thinking Intel/Nvidia. AMD graphics/Processor aren't even an after thought. Should the ZEN be competitive again (hopefully), would you consider going down that path?
 
AMD are woefully behind Intel and have been for a while now in everything but APUs (and even there Intel are catching up with their IRIS iGPU). If their new tech shows promise and testing reveals a good competitor for Intel, then yes I'd consider swapping.
 
If competitive of course.

Unfortunately AMD just isn't an option for a high end build at the moment so no they do not cross my mind.
 
I had the 8320, which is 'High end' AMD, as everything above is just an overclocked version...
Switched to my current 5820k at christmas due to their being nothing from AMD... I waited and waited and nothing...
 
Not at present, if they can pull something off in the cpu department I would consider one. Price depends of course. Gpu wise, I think their cards are fine. However as I'm on a gsync monitor I'm tied to NVIDIA for the time being. I tend to keep monitors much longer than the rest of my system.
 
Of course it does. Wouldn't buy anything else.

Still rocking my antiquated 8320 processor and it's ripping through games without pushing the CPU at all. GTA V gives it the best workout but for the most part, it's still more than adequate for what I do with it.

I played with a 5960X at a local PC event with pretty much the same PC configuration I have now bar 32Gig RAM and another motherboard and saw zero difference in game play. I'm sure if I benchmark the crap out of it it'll be 90 times as fast or something but if I'm already running at 100+ FPS on most, if not all of my games, why bother?
 
Until they bring out competitive cpu's and a up to date chipset then no. They badly need to sort out power efficiency too. Up until core 2 duo came out it was the other way around for me and I only had systems built around AMD's socket A, 754 and 939. When core 2 duo came out everything changed and they have been behind ever since and never shown any signs of catching up.
 
pastymuncher said:
Until they bring out competitive cpu's and a up to date chipset then no. They badly need to sort out power efficiency too. Up until core 2 duo came out it was the other way around for me and I only had systems built around AMD's socket A, 754 and 939. When core 2 duo came out everything changed and they have been behind ever since and never shown any signs of catching up.
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It has been 6 years since I last bought an AMD. Nothing on their part has stood out since the 1090t.
 
Sticking with my 8350 until Zen then I'll make a choice between AMD/Intel I have no desire to upgrade at the moment, the 8350 plays everything I throw at it without issue at 1080P high/ultra settings but my next build will be for a higher resolution
 
Yep for both CPU and GPU. Bought both a 8350 and R9 390 this year for various builds.

Very happy to buy AMD CPUs when I want to maximize my bang for buck. Yes for my main rig I'll be sticking Intel CPU unless the AM4 cpus are something special. But I like AMD, I still have 2 rigs with Phenom x4 and x6's in which are performing very nicely thank you very much.
 
Low to mid range budget - yes to both CPUs and GPUs.
Higher budgets - no to the CPUs but still yes to the GPUs.

Does depend a lot on expected usage and requirements, but for high end my recommendation is always going to involve an Intel CPU, and has done since the Core2Quad era, as others have said.
 
yes but only for lower down the cpu line up when you need more multithreading where they're actually pretty good performers beating i5's in most of my use case scenarios at same price point, single core sucks a little compared with i5 though.

GPU's... although they're good gaming cards I normally go nvidia due to the software I use
 
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