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Catsick said:
Just being able to pick any game up and play it without the worry about overclocking, heat, bottlenecking etc whilst staying within a budget.
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Do you want to play games at low, medium or high/ultra graphics is really the question. Also some games are more cpu than gpu intensive. Take Arma 3 for example. So many variables its hard to have a easy answer. End of the day buy the best you can afford / willing to spend and then tweak the graphics to your machine.
 
Randall8686 said:
End of the day buy the best you can afford / willing to spend and then tweak the graphics to your machine.
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This is what it's going to boil down to. The initial question was whether AMD were up to Intel standards now but it sounds like things aren't quite what they seem.
The budget will cover a very good Intel/nvidia system, but might opt more towards replacing items rather than a new full system.
Thanks all for your comments.
 
bru said:
Only if you are willing to overclock, if your not willing to overclock then suddenly a 3820E at only 3.2 GHz kinda sucks, £30 for an extra 800 MHz that the 8350 gives you doesn't seem so bad all of a sudden.:)
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Ok read the applied logic from the posters below:

kaku said:
Why would you buy an AMD processor and not be willing to overclock though?
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ALXAndy said:
Last time I checked this place was called Overclockers.
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You can easily get an 8320 to 4.5Ghz. That enables it to compete with most i5's in the average game - just look at the graph wars people post and look for the 9370 score as this is around the same clockspeed. If people are willing to spend that 'extra £30' then they may as well get an i5 rig.
 
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Threepwood said:
Bazinga!

It's a great chip, and a great platform for future CPU upgrading.

Did you get a second one to test what folk were on about with it? I seem to remember you had a poor clocking one to start with when you first tried it? Or did you overcome a frequency wall with your old?
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I had to set the CPU uncore 400 MHz lower that the overall clock IIRC. Either that or 300mhz lower... I found some settings online. That was all it took really, 67c max in Prime. Sadly the board refuses to output any more than 1.197v actual or 1.2v via bios. Not sure if it clocks any higher on that voltage, may try higher later :)
 
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