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i dont know why but i somehow feel the need to go back to intel

You certainly won't regret getting the i7 if you decide to do so in the end but the 8320 is and will be very decent for quite some time. Though if you absolutely want the best of the best then sell your current setup, re-use the cooler (just make sure that it has an 1150 compatible mounting plate) and grab that Gaming 7/4790k bundle. AFAIK, there's a nice cashback deal on Gigabyte/Devil's Canyon so you can shave 25 quid off the bill.
 
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this is the bundle i will go for if i go through with it
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1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £351.98
Total : £361.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



also, my ram is 1600mhz, would the 4790k benifit from faster ram? may also replace it with some red sticks :D
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It seems to yes, but many run 1600 ram even now and it works a treat. Will not be massive improvements just milli second improvements and bench-marking of course.
If on a budget keep what you have.
 
Changing from a power hungry AMD FX (especially when overclocked to the 5GHz range) to a 4790k is a good idea, if you still got the i5 in your cupboard then get it out sell it and sell the AMD setup along with it I doubt you'd get less than £150 for the lot as long as they're working, upgrade why not.
 
Well it all depends on how much i can get for my old setups, it works out i need £325 for the bundle (£25 cash back)
 
I would probably stick with what you have especially for BF4. Not only is it a well threaded game without Mantle,but with Mantle I especially not bother at all.

Non-modded Skyrim should not be stuttering though - my mate has an overclocked FX6300 which is fine.

However,with mods even with a Xeon E3 1230 V2(basically a Core i7 3770) I get some stuttering sometimes in towns,since I use DOZENS of mods,which literally have made the game very different from the vanilla version. The problem is though that most of the mods are written by different people,so they won't always play nice,even if you change the load order.
 
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FMExTREME said:
Changing from a power hungry AMD FX (especially when overclocked to the 5GHz range) to a 4790k is a good idea
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FMExTREME said:
Changing from a power hungry AMD FX (especially when overclocked to the 5GHz range) to a 4790k is a good idea
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The amount of power you actually use isn't that much greater. According to my corsair power link thingy, my 4790k while using prime is using 160W @4.5Ghz.

You will see an improvement in single threaded games, but not in multi-threaded ones
 
cwgk91 said:
The amount of power you actually use isn't that much greater. According to my corsair power link thingy, my 4790k while using prime is using 160W @4.5Ghz.

You will see an improvement in single threaded games, but not in multi-threaded ones
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Exactly. Bored of these off the cuff factoids embedding into young peoples minds just because they read it on places like here and think it's a major factor. :rolleyes:

It's one of intels USP's however as soon as you overclock it (check forum name) the two chips are not that far apart - especially if you now look at the E variety.

There is a video made by tek syndicate who bothered to do some calculations, as an example. Realistically when you have these cases involving fans, pumps etc you are kidding yourself if you think the processor is going to save you money in a desktop (I worked for a power engineering company involved in metrology for seven years).

It will take years even to balance out the offset in cost difference, by then you will have upgraded to another era of technology. Why people do not get this is beyond me other than they are sucked in by the adverts or are brand blinkered.
 
People still use AMD CPU's? :confused:

I'm kidding, but I have always wondered how anyone not on an extreme budget can ever go with AMD over Intel when the performance difference is so obvious. Misguided loyalty, perhaps?

GPU's it's another story of course, but for CPU's it seems very clear cut to me.
 
Richdog said:
Misguided loyalty, perhaps?
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For a small number of people this is not the case. I was out of work from moving home to where the wife's from, I simply could not excuse the extra pounds just for the marginal gain.

Luckily I was mining with my older rig and used any trading to fund the new rig. Should I have been in the position I am in now I would have just saved for the i7 which is way more expensive.

Either way I am happy with the purchase, and AMD certainly has a place it's just not in the enthusiast desktop CPU market any more. :cool:
 
cwgk91 said:
The amount of power you actually use isn't that much greater. According to my corsair power link thingy, my 4790k while using prime is using 160W @4.5Ghz.

You will see an improvement in single threaded games, but not in multi-threaded ones
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Except this is a completely inaccurate blanket statement.

Multi is more than 1, AMD don't suddenly become parity when more than 1 thread is involved.

If you got a CPU bound game that utilised 4 cores (Multi-threaded). Going from an AMD to an Intel (Say FX83 to an i5 46) would be an upgrade, as the core for core performance improvement would yield gains.

People over use the term single threaded and Multi-threaded without actually thinking.
 
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