In WoW if you raid at a high resolutions AMD's are far more susceptible to drops in frame-rate in my experience, Intel's tend to offer a much better minimum frame-rate which is key when gaming.
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Piledriver or Intel i5?
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In WoW if you raid at a high resolutions AMD's are far more susceptible to drops in frame-rate in my experience, Intel's tend to offer a much better minimum frame-rate which is key when gaming.
Soldato
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People need to stop thinking that they can just take their FPS gaming experience and apply directly to mmos, cause most mmos are poor threaded, and is usually much more CPU demanding than their generic FPS games.
Agreed. When I read the post saying something along the line of "PD will do WOW at over 60fps" I just thought he was a jutjob. WOW is extremely single core heavy as well as EVE which for me at ultra on 1080P ramps up to over 60% usage on the latest i5's, and thats overclocked.
i was going to wait for PD but i went i5 3570k instead and didn't cost that much at all £150 on CPU and £80 on mobo was able to reuse all my other parts, and i am glad i did go intel, even though i am normally an AMD fan boy, my previous system was a phenom 2 955BE
In the end i am glad i didn't go PD
In the end i am glad i didn't go PD
I guess it depends on what games you play, if you play games like WOW and want the extra 10 / 15 FPS, and that's worth £300 to you then yes you should go with the i5.
Other than that there is no reason to get Intel over AMD.
Other than that there is no reason to get Intel over AMD.
