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Thinking of switching from Intel to AMD

I wish i had just put in an i7 when i replaced my i5 instead of getting this so sucky FX 8350

Back to playing pac-man cause thats all its good for and then an i5 would own it in that game aswell
 
In this thread there are two of us who moved from 2500k to fx and one who moved has sandy-e to fx... And yet the Intel proponents continue to dismiss us...

Maybe if you finish school you'll be able to read your own comment and identify the meaning of it. For instance if I say "Martini loves Intel", it's meaning is easily deduced to be "Martini is a fanboy".

There are some courses available to help you with language difficulties, maybe if you spend less cash on Intel chips you could afford them.
 
nikki5974 said:
I wish i had just put in an i7 when i replaced my i5 instead of getting this so sucky FX 8350

Back to playing pac-man cause thats all its good for and then an i5 would own it in that game aswell
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/Facepalm.

And anyone who thinks I'm an Intel fanboy couldn't be further from the truth.

Burnt, if you want to start insulting people, calling out their English, I suggest you brush up on your sentence structure.
 
Anyway back to the OP's spec for possible changes he asking about,

I wouldnt get that CPU with that Mobo

If you are too buy that CPU then get the sabretooth,or the CHF-Z but tbh i would just settle for the 8320 or 8350,i spent a few weeks debating on which to get in the end i went for 8350 only £20 difference for me
 
I probably would have just plonked in a Core i7 just for convenients sake TBH. OTH,I wish I had an overclocked Core i5 myself.

However,I suppose an FX8320 and a decent 990X motherboard would actually cost less than a Core i7 3770K,and they seem more fun to overclock.

Edit!!

I would probably look at the Asus M5A99X EVO or Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX if the OP is making the change.
 
If you were buying brand new, up from a socket 775 or AM3/AM2+, the FX83 is a stupidly good contender, but that's not the case here due to OP's current components.
 
I had a good home for the i5 so was buying from scratch

OP i guess would be selling his i5 and mobo and ram cause hes also thinking of new ram if that is the case hes gonna save ****loads upgrading to an fx 83** so money saved and better performance with fx over his CURRENT i5 must be worth it
 
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RAM's expensive these days.
I bought 16GB for 40 quid, one of the 8GB kits now is 65 quid.

Probably going to cost nigh on the same it would be to sell an i5 and buy an i7.

It'd cost about 140 to get an i7 3770K OEM after selling the i5, it'd cost 70 if he was getting the FX9 (So he's obviously budgeted for it)

And the lets say it costs him 50 quid for new RAM and Board after selling old stuff (And tbf, that's being generous) so he's maybe saving 20 quid and he's only going to be faster than the i5 in situations he can use his extra cores (So it's not an upgrade in every situation, a clocked i7 Ivy would be, while being less hassle and having better overall performance, but who needs logic? AMIRITE)
 
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Think you'd struggle to sell the board that price, I sold a Maximus IV Extreme for less than that.
And you're leaving the RAM pricing (Not that it's necessary, but it's obviously budgeted for)
I never said he couldn't do it cheaper, but he's obviously budgeted for it, so he can obviously get the higher performing part, factually that is the i7.
 
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we all have our own opinions and thats all OP is asking for not a amd v intel war

how many of you have made the change from either i5 to 83xx or 83xx to i5

oh yea think its 2 and SB-e to 83xx
 
He wants something new, he's interested in next gen performance with Mantle - there are perfectly good reasons for this change.

The tone of this thread you'd think he was replacing a 2500K with a 486.
 
so a new mobo and new cpu (retail) for only £60-80 with 3 yrs warranty on each,that alone is worth it

he upgrades and gets an i7 2 weeks later his mobo dies and assuming he had it for a few years and no warranty

his i7 upgrade has just gone up even more
 
Bottomline is, for OP to go from 1155 to AMD, assume "if" he "can" sell his Asrock Extreme4 Gen3 for around £50 (if he's lucky), he's still spend around £50 extra on the new AM3+ board alone (£60-£70 extra if he can only get £30-£40 back from selling his board).

Seriously how is it "good value" to migrate from 1155 to AM3+?
nikki5974 said:
so a new mobo and new cpu (retail) for only £60-80 with 3 yrs warranty on each,that alone is worth it
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So trading better performance (in sub 8-threaded games) at a cost for extra warranty? Interesting.
 
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