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I DONT KNOW what to do

Had a gander at the topic:

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But not been updated in 5 years, sooooooo hm.
 
almighty15 said:
No because the OP doesn't have a Q6600, he has an i7 with a vastly superior IPC compared to anything AMD has on the market so it doesn't need to hit high clocks to beat the FX.
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You're wrong. The i7 920 doesn't have a "vastly" superior IPC to an FX83 CPU. Like I said, if you want a rough comparison on these, check some cinebench R15 benchmarks. They are about the same. In multithreaded score, the overclocked FX83 frankly wipes the floor with the 920.

Also like said, it is all relative and dependent on the instruction sets and overclock achieved on the CPU. Making out that the i7 920 is somehow vastly superior to a well clocked FX83 is just misleading. Why do you love misleading fellow members?
 
The i7 does have vastly better IPC :confused:

From the Cinebench results, a 4.2GHZ Lynnfield core > 5GHZ Piledriver core, that's vastly better IPC.

But unlike Sandy etc, average clocks on i7 920's are anywhere from 4GHZ to 4.2GHZ, as opposed 4.6-4.8GHZ.

Both going 100%, the FX83's better, but no one's disputed that.
The i7 9XX's about 5 years old, coming up 6 years now, it lacks important instruction sets etc.
 
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Martini1991 said:
The i7 does have vastly better IPC :confused:

From the Cinebench results, a 4.2GHZ Lynnfield core > 5GHZ Piledriver core, that's vastly better IPC.

But unlike Sandy etc, average clocks on i7 920's are anywhere from 4GHZ to 4.2GHZ, as opposed 4.6-4.8GHZ.

Both going 100%, the FX83's better, but no one's disputed that.
The i7 9XX's about 5 years old, coming up 6 years now, it lacks important instruction sets etc.
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Let me rephrase this. They are starting at different base clocks and on average are able to achieve different overclocks. Both the 920 and the FX83 CPUs are able to achieve similar IPCs at their average overclocks. Age is not really relevant. We all admit that the i7 920 is a very capable CPU. So is the FX83. Yes AMD lag behind intel but that doesn't make their offering useless, especially given the price/performance.
 
alex_123_fra said:
Let me rephrase this. They are starting at different base clocks and on average are able to achieve different overclocks. Both the 920 and the FX83 CPUs are able to achieve similar IPCs at their average overclocks. Age is not really relevant. We all admit that the i7 920 is a very capable CPU. So is the FX83. Yes AMD lag behind intel but that doesn't make their offering useless, especially given the price/performance.
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Point here is, it would be a bit pointless for OP to change to an 8350 no?
 
I've been uming and arring between upgrading to a 4670k from my i7 950.

Performance wise I just don't think its worth the hassle or money.
 
They don't achieve similar IPC, given what IPC means.

Depending on clocks, and the software, you can get similar out and out core for core (Although as far as averages go, I'm still putting the i7 cores as faster)
The age is relevant, as it ties in with the instruction sets......
 
tbyeah said:
Point here is, it would be a bit pointless for OP to change to an 8350 no?
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I fully agree as mentioned in the first page. I advised him to get a 1366 board. My point around the FX83 was in answer to some who try to rubbish the FX CPUs as being vastly inferior to the i7 920.

Qitarah said:
I've been uming and arring between upgrading to a 4670k from my i7 950.

Performance wise I just don't think its worth the hassle or money.
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I'd agree.
 
Hey wait a min. I been registered over a year and have over 100 posts....... where's my mm? Lol

My goodness this is a great debate guys and gaining an idea on what to do but keep it coming. All good gen especially the 100 posts and 12 month for mm access, or is it 250 posts and 90 days? If so I need to reply to lots of these to get it so keep it coming :-)
 
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