Will this do for a few years?

Baker2013 · 10 May 2013 at 15:14

So I've been here twice already with questions about a PC and have raised my budget from £400 to £670. I wanna know if this PC, (i'm not looking to change anything) will do me for a long time.

Specs:

ASRock Extreme 4 Z77 Motherboard

i5 3570k Ivybridge Processor

Blue Corsair Vengeance 8GB Ram

Asus HD 7870 2GB DirectCUII Graphics Card

Zalman Z9 Plus Case

Corsair CX500 80+ Bronze Power Supply

Corsair H60 Liquid Cooling

Games I play:
Battlefield
Arma
etc

DaleTheWhale · 10 May 2013 at 15:17

The PC will serve you quite well for a couple years, but i'd still change a couple things and take into consideration that Haswell will be released soon and can add that extra bit of future proofing on a new socket!

Admiral Huddy · 10 May 2013 at 15:22

Since when have intel future proofed sockets

That's a decent set up. I would invest also in an SSD if you don't already have one.

Baker2013 · 10 May 2013 at 15:23

I honestly don't have the money to buy an i7 haha, otherwise I would

I also have a harddrive already, so it's all good

DaleTheWhale · 10 May 2013 at 15:45

Baker2013 said:
I honestly don't have the money to buy an i7 haha, otherwise I would

I also have a harddrive already, so it's all good

I think your a little muddled up, Haswell is the new 1150 socket (4xxx) chipset compared to the current 1155 Ivybridge (3xxx) chipset. It's released in June and will open your options to that socket instead of buying straight into a about to be dead socket.

Intel don't future proof, but i'd rather go 1150 at this stage!

Admiral Huddy · 10 May 2013 at 15:56

I would personally go for an AMD 8350..
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-336-AM

Special offer for under £150.. Good performing CPU and overclockable.

There's hard drives and then there's SSDs You can run your OS from the SSD for some decent performance.

Doomedspeed · 10 May 2013 at 16:17

Admiral Huddy said:
I would personally go for an AMD 8350..
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-336-AM

Special offer for under £150.. Good performing CPU and overclockable.

There's hard drives and then there's SSDs You can run your OS from the SSD for some decent performance.

Great pricing, considering the current price of the 3570k it's a good option.

Baker2013 · 10 May 2013 at 18:50

I was planning on buying the AMD but I read/watched a lot of benchmarks etc and Intel seems to do better. I'd rather have intel anyway because it's literally what I've used since I got my first PC. The PC I have now is an Intel Quad Core and it's served me well since around late 2008 so it's just a personal preferance for me.

Akagi · 10 May 2013 at 19:40

For gaming the 3570K destroys the 8350, so much so that it is ridiculous. I would expect the upcoming i5 4670K to humiliate it even further

Sure the i5 is more, but for a gaming machine, AMD is definitely not the way to go at this point.

I do hope AMD catch up with gaming performance soon though. I wouldn't mind having an AMD machine next time 'round if they do.

Also as a side note, the 8350 really isn't worth the extra over the 8320 IMO, which is £114, when you take into consideration that there is 200MHz per core difference to the boosted speed, and both chips will overclock.

Sal0hcine · 10 May 2013 at 23:34

As others have said it might be worth waiting for the i5 4570 and if you do not plan on over clocking grab the non K processor to save some money.