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Just out of interest which one of these builds would have better performance? both builds also include a corsair h100

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Total : £1,044.40 (includes shipping : £13.75).



or

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1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £229.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £149.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance C70 Midi Tower Gaming Case - Arctic White £99.95
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow KC300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive w/ Adapter - (SKC300S37A/120G) £85.99
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 750W Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020061-UK) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) £65.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £47.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £943.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
you guys do know that more and more games are going to be optimized for more cores instead of better performance per core
 
nikki5974 said:
The AMD build with a few changes
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The Intel build above will offer more performance than the AMD one. That's a fact, as the only real performance altering difference in the builds is the CPU. Yes of course the AMD build will be better 'with some changes' but then so would the Intel build. That wasn't the question though. And the AMD Piledriver cpus are not true octo-cores at all. They are quad cores with some fancy trickery to make them act like an octo-core
 
Regardless of CPU, this is a better AMD version:

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1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £229.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance C70 Midi Tower Gaming Case - Arctic White £99.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £61.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 520W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £47.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £887.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Which performs better depends on what you're playing. If you're going for next gen games, the developers suggest the AMD 8 core CPUs over an i5. If you're into strategy games, you're best off with Intel.
 
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