I do not want this to turn into a massive fanboy flamewar guys, but lets get down to brass tacks. Everyone might have seen my recent posts over the past few months wondering about my future build. I currently am running dual AMD and have ran AMD parts for years. I know the price to performance for both chips has increased a good amount in recent years, but as for raw power I know that intel has it. My question has to do more with a setup for multi-monitor gaming. After I posted earlier asking about 770 and 780 for a 5760x1080 surround setup I did some more research and found the 290x is a powerhouse at this and other super high resolutions. After doing even more digging, I am seriously tempted to drop the cash to go with a 295x2 since I am going to be building an ITX machine.
Now for the meat and potatoes. Would the performance on the machine drop at all if changing from an LGA 1150 setup running a z97 board with an i5-4790k chip if switching to an A88XI board with an A10-7850K? Main reason for looking into this is the massive price drop in the cost of mobo/CPU to compensate for the jump in GPU cost (almost triple that of the tri-x sapphire 290x I was looking at)?
Again guys, please do not turn this into a fanboy war.
I am putting an ITX machine together. The reason for this is in order to save space, I will be putting my current rig and the ITX rig in a Lian-Li DK-02x case. So ITX rig is what I need to go with.
Why would you spend $1500 on a graphics card and then not be willing to make the upgrades on the motherboard and processor? Just go buy whatever i7 k-series chip you like that fits in the Asus Impact board and call it a day. Yes, it's less cost effective, but it is the best performance that you can possibly get out of that form factor.
the point stands. A single 290x is more gpu then should be coupled with a amd apu like the 7850k. You are talking about putting a cpu that without the integrated gpu would cost like 80 dollars with 550-1500 dollars worth of gpu(depending on if you go 290x or295x2).
An APU will choke that beast of a graphics card. It's not that amd doesn't have anything that can push that card. You would probably get by fine with an fx 8350, but in itx intel is your only option. That APU is similar to an athlon x4 750k in terms of cpu power. The cpu deficiency may go relatively unnoticed in many games, but there are more than enough games out there where you will poor performance. Look up cpu benchmarks for metro last light, assassin's creed 4, watch dogs, skyrim, and of course any games you will want to play. If a 295x2 will limit you to a APU, do not get a 295x2. It's not worth shortcutting *that much* on your cpu to get a beastly graphics card.
It would not limit me to that chip, I was just thinking of ways to cut back on cost a little to make the significant other not cut my softer parts off.
It's more like anything other than the best would be a disservice to such a graphics card, and, much as I may begrudge them their higher price to performance, Intel is the best.
Relative to the cost of the graphics card alone you can't be saving more than 10%. It's still a lot of money, but you will be losing a heck of a lot more than 10% in performance in quite a few games. Anyway I was just looking at the case you intend to use and it appears it will accept almost any size motherboard. It would make a heck of a lot more sense to just get a full size atx board and go crossfire 290x + an i7 or i5. An itx board would just leave a lot of wasted space.
Yes it does, but on the side that takes any size mobo, I will be putting my current rig in, and putting the ITX setup on the other side. My current rig will get upgraded down the road 4-5 years from now. With two comps in 1 case I can stagger my upgrades from one form factor to the other in order to maintain an up to date machine on either side.
Would the performance on the machine drop at all if changing from an LGA 1150 setup running a z97 board with an i5-4790k chip if switching to an A88XI board with an A10-7850K?