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pillow

pillow

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Hey guys,

For days I've been wondering what I can do. Currently, I have an i5-2500 (non k) and a P8H67 motherboad. This obviously means my overclocking is extremely restricted.

Ideally I don't want to have to spend a whole lot of money and selling my current setup and then buying a 2500k and P67/Z67 mATX board is going to need me paying quite a bit more.

Only a couple of minutes ago I have a bit of a brainwave - why don't I try out an AMD build?

If I sold my motherboard and processor I'd hope to get about £150-160 ish and I really wouldn't want to pay more than about £50 extra, so we're talking a budget of about £200.

Just wondering what is the general experience of overclocking on the AMD platform, and whether anyone else thinks this is a good idea?

Thanks guys!
 
Sorry guys,

I do game a bit. I think the most taxing thing I play on it is probably FSX or one of the Total War games.

I guess it is gaming performance I'm looking at - and I know AMD is quite a bit behind intel, I was just wondering whether any potential overclocking will lift it above my current i5.
 
Not worth swtiching but if you did and got something like mine you would lose a lot of processing power. I can run all games at high specs but in the future who knows.
 
Its not worth going amd at all these days unless you are on a strict budget. Sometimes you will even get a better intel CPU with a low budget. Personally I have always used amd as I have always been on a very tight budget but if i had the money i would go for intel any day
 
FSX is one of those games that needs fast cores iirc, if you got an overclocked 2500K performance would go up but I'd expect it to go down with any of AMD's CPU's, especially Bulldozer.
 
Thanks guys.

I've read that Ivy Bridge will be supported on my motherboard and that BCLK overclocking would work better - hopefully it won't be restricted to just the new motherboards.

Guess I'll just have to wait and see!
 
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