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Haswell probably won't even make much of a difference for the OP. Simple OC will level out the speed/clock anyway.
Intel.
Unless you are budgeting for a very low cost build AMD are just not worth it.
With a GTX570 would I see much difference in gaming, between a 8320 @ 4.5 and a i5 Ivybridge @ 4.4?
sorry for thread hijack OP....I'm pondering similar change to you too.
No you would not see a difference with your eyes or gameplay experience. These CPU's are overkill for gaming as you can game on an i3 or Bulldozer chip perfectly fine and not really feel the FPS difference in game.
No you would not see a difference with your eyes or gameplay experience. These CPU's are overkill for gaming as you can game on an i3 or Bulldozer chip perfectly fine and not really feel the FPS difference in game.
On topic.
Intel are faster, No one doubt's that. Benchmarks are in intel's favor in gaming.
AMD are cheaper, Price to performance ratio goes to AMD (imo). If your on a budget then AMD is the way to go.
I've just changed from the i7 920 I've had for years to an AMD 8350 with an Asus Sabertooth mb and Samsung green RAM - my frame rates have gone up, and everything is running really smoothly.
For an upgrade price of about £350 I'm very happy - I know everyone says go Intel, but I've no regrets with the current setup and can upgrade using the existing MB when the new AMD chips come out.
Unless you care about benchmarking more than playing games and doing work I doubt you'd be disappointed with an 8350 or 8320.
Ridiculous. A 3570k is definitely not overkill. An i3 will have trouble running crisis 3.
Why? And at what settings?
My old E8500 along with the 7950 had me up all night playing Crysis 3 at medium + settings with no glitches? I certainly could get better frame rates and higher settings with a better set up. But I doubt a 3570K is the bare minimum you need. An i3 3220 or FX6300 is perfectly adequate for most average users gaming needs on single monitors at 1080p.
I still have doubts about all the negative views on AMD. For the price of an Intel 3770K processor alone you can pick up an FX-8 Eight Core 8320, Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0, and 8GB of 1866Mhz ram for goodness sake! That is a considerable saving.
And yet both CPU's will rarely if ever see their maximum potential in average UK users homes. A good number of Sandybridge users will have probably bought them for work that the FX 8320would have been acceptable for too!