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What's up with CPU prices?

If you only buy what is necessary Intel will work out the same or cheaper.

AMD FX8350 needs a Sabertooth class board due to the power requirements and heat the VRM's will produce, whereas a 3570K you can clock them to 4.5ghz+ on an £80 board without any power/heat related issues. It's a similar story with PSU, you can clock the 3570K to 4.5ghz with a 430W Corsair Builder and still have 300W+ left over for a high end GPU, whereas with an FX8350 you'd want something beefier and undoubtedly more expensive.

You could buy a 3770K and motherboard for £380 and have no trouble with overclocking, choice of motherboard simply isn't as vital on the Intel side. Most of the cost of the Z77 Sabertooth is probably down to the gimmicky/completely unnecessary full coverage armour suit that the 990FX (which needs it more if it actually works) doesn't have.
 
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mmj_uk said:
If you only buy what is necessary Intel will work out the same or cheaper.

AMD FX8350 needs a Sabertooth class board due to the power requirements and heat the VRM's will produce, whereas a 3570K you can clock them to 4.5ghz+ on an £80 board without any power/heat related issues. It's a similar story with PSU, you can clock the 3570K to 4.5ghz with a 430W Corsair Builder and still have 300W+ left over for a high end GPU, whereas with an FX8350 you'd want something beefier and undoubtedly more expensive.
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This is basically what I was trying to convey with the crappy analogy :) sadly the only person who seemed to get it was somebody who already understood it lol.
 
mmj_uk said:
Most of the cost of the Z77 Sabertooth is probably down to the gimmicky/completely unnecessary full coverage armour suit that the 990FX (which needs it more if it actually works) doesn't have.
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This is so true that i had to quote it, so that people read this twice. Good board with one very bad feature, which not only makes the board worse but increases its cost. It was so popular because of the look.

If the 990fx Sabertooth had that same plastic armour, i bet you would see some deformation around the VRM area after a few hours of prime with a well clocked 8350.


There are £80-£90 boards which can handle an 8350 with a moderate overclock, unfortunately only a small handful.
 
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