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Thinking of switching from Intel to AMD

ALXAndy said:
Holy miss the point Batman.

FX 8320 - £113
4670k - £170.

By price alone the AMD shouldn't be able to touch the 4670k in anything, yet it does. As for Intel "ruling" (another one of your silly comments) I should hope so. They cost enough to warrant it. Note for every one else back in reality though, they certainly don't rule when it comes to price.
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Now compare the price of RAM+Mobo+CPU and you'll see they're not far apart and the slight extra cost of the Intel will far far out weigh the extra performance you gain.

Anyway, I've called out people to run benchmarks and no one wants to know....

All bark and no bite...
 
almighty15 said:
Now compare the price of RAM+Mobo+CPU and you'll see they're not far apart and the slight extra cost of the Intel will far far out weigh the extra performance you gain.

Anyway, I've called out people to run benchmarks and no one wants to know....

All bark and no bite...
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ill have a go but as theres no z68 boards or 2500k on sale anymore on OCUK can i use z77 and ivy ?
 
teppic said:
So which is better, 2500K or 8320? :)
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That's an unanswerable question, as it's both better and worse at the same time.

Application/Game depending.

But as like 8 threaded games are firmly in the minority (Because, factually, well, they are), well, draw your own conclusion.

nikki5974 said:
we have decided that its the FX thats better than the 2500k in 99% of situations oh and cheaper aswell
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Well that's me convinced.
 
Martini1991 said:
That's an unanswerable question, as it's both better and worse at the same time.

Application/Game depending.

But as like 8 threaded games are firmly in the minority (Because, factually, well, they are), well, draw your own conclusion.
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It was not a serious question :p
 
almighty15 said:
Now compare the price of RAM+Mobo+CPU and you'll see they're not far apart and the slight extra cost of the Intel will far far out weigh the extra performance you gain.

Anyway, I've called out people to run benchmarks and no one wants to know....

All bark and no bite...
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FX 8320 with a board capable of 4.3ghz is the same price as the 4670k. 6300 with a board and the ram is the same price as the 4670k. That extra £80 you save on going 8320 or £100+ you save on the 6300 set up will get you a £100 better GPU. Which is clearly, factually the better option given that the GPU is the most important part of any gaming rig.

You're allowing the mist in front of your eyes to cloud your judgement and in turn are handing out some seriously, terribly bad advice.

You've seen my rigs, both of them. Both are running multiple GPUs and both offer enormous amounts of gaming power because they are set up for gaming, IE - have very expensive powerful GPU arrangements.

Until you bring any proof whatsoever to back up your claims that an Intel CPU will offer real world gains over the Vishera line up, with proof, and benchmarks to show these wild figures you make claim to (battering, raping, ruling) then you are just digging your hole deeper and deeper. Every time some one asks you to back your claims up and another post comes out with no proof it's just getting worse. Can't you see that? or am I wasting my time trying to show reason to some one clearly devoid of the capability to see it?

So far throughout this thread you have constantly rattled on with your so called facts. Now you're trying to prove a point with your 2600k.

I think you're rather confused. TBH? you shouldn't have bothered getting involved in this thread because when it comes to actual fact you've offered up pretty much nothing. Just the odd outrageous statement here and there.

Proof. Show us proof. We've had pages upon pages of your claims, now show the evidence.
 
ALXAndy said:
FX 8320 with a board capable of 4.3ghz is the same price as the 4670k. 6300 with a board and the ram is the same price as the 4670k. That extra £80 you save on going 8320 or £100+ you save on the 6300 set up will get you a £100 better GPU. Which is clearly, factually the better option given that the GPU is the most important part of any gaming rig.

You're allowing the mist in front of your eyes to cloud your judgement and in turn are handing out some seriously, terribly bad advice.

You've seen my rigs, both of them. Both are running multiple GPUs and both offer enormous amounts of gaming power because they are set up for gaming, IE - have very expensive powerful GPU arrangements.

Until you bring any proof whatsoever to back up your claims that an Intel CPU will offer real world gains over the Vishera line up, with proof, and benchmarks to show these wild figures you make claim to (battering, raping, ruling) then you are just digging your hole deeper and deeper. Every time some one asks you to back your claims up and another post comes out with no proof it's just getting worse. Can't you see that? or am I wasting my time trying to show reason to some one clearly devoid of the capability to see it?

So far throughout this thread you have constantly rattled on with your so called facts. Now you're trying to prove a point with your 2600k.

I think you're rather confused. TBH? you shouldn't have bothered getting involved in this thread because when it comes to actual fact you've offered up pretty much nothing. Just the odd outrageous statement here and there.

Proof. Show us proof. We've had pages upon pages of your claims, now show the evidence.
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I did that earlier in this thread...
 
INTEL

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Z77 Maximus V Extreme Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £274.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
Total : £460.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).



AMD

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Crosshair V Formula Z AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £178.8
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £143.99
Total : £333.59 (includes shipping : £9.00).



I used asus rog boards to try keep it as near as poss and also used the 8350 to also try keep the cost as close as poss
 
 
There's no topic anymore.
The OP had a 2500K and board, he wouldn't be buying one :p

EDIT : I'm loving the component choosing to skew the pricing, it's really classy.

Any tool can see that the FX83 set up is cheaper, and the 8320 is especially cheaper.
 
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Why are you using high end Intel boards? Unlike AMD CPU's Intel CPU's are very power efficient and can be maxed out on a cheap board, unlike AMD CPU's which can only be maxed out and nothing but the highest end.

You can have a 4770k with a good Gigabyte board for £332 which is faster, will use less power and best of all you can max out the CPU on the board.

Try maxing out an 8 'Core' FX CPU on a low to mid-range board.... Popped VRM's anyone :)
 
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