Here is my buld at the moment. I just want your guys' opinions as to what I should do. After watching a few videos, the 3770k will outperform the FX-8350 in most tests; however, I am not sure how things will be turning in the next couple of generations of CPU's in general. More or less, what I'm wanting to know is what do you think will be the most dominant CPU brand in the world of gaming within the next one to two generations.
go with the amd fx 8350
So, is you opinion that AMD is going to have the upper hand in gaming, or what?
yes did you check the latest video from razetheworld the amd fx 8350 beats the intel core i7 3770k and the intel core i7 3820 in 90% of the time
Yea, that I did. Although I'd thought the 3770k outperformed the 8350 in most tests... Guess I'll go re-watch it then!
I wouldn't say it was 90 percent of the time. For me, this is a tough decision because both are great CPUs. Intel is probably still going to be the top dog for years to come though simply because they are a much bigger company with more money to put behind research and development.
Id go with the 3770K its the better overall processor, im really weary of one set of benchmarks that are Way off the general consensus, espically with the inconsistencies in the Review.
be proactive and find as many different reviews as a give product as you can and compare the trend and the should give you the best idea on what is better.
the intel i7 3770k is over $300 and the amd is under $200 and it is better
I totally agree with you there. I just saw that it was pretty close in Razethew0rlds' video and wasn't for sure what that was all about.
I don't know if I'm comfortable calling it better at this point, especially because we didn't see any overclocked benchmarks. Also, I generally trust Logan's judgement on things like this, but his results seem to be dramatically different than every other reviewer which leaves me scratching my head. I personally would have to dig much, much deeper in order to make a decision about this.
At this point, I don't really care about that difference in the price of the processor, now mind you, I'm not going to go out and buy whatever processor of Intel's that is $1000 or whater. But from most videos, the i7 does do better, but I remember seeing a couple videos where it was a close race.
If price is a no issue, 3770k is proper good. There is a reason most benchmark sites use Intel based systems, they produce properly bad ass processors and i fear that will be the case for many years to come.
That's very true, but at the same time I like the feature set on AMD boards much, much more than the features on Intel boards. I love that you can buy an AMD board with 8 SATA III ports. I wish Intel would do the same instead of providing only 2 and then giving you 6 more SATA II ports. SATA II should be abandoned altogether. The same goes for USB 2.0.
Well just to throw my 2 cents in about the review
all the motherboards varied quite a bit the Z77 was M-ITX the x79 M-ATX and the AM3+ was ATX (which shouldnt cause much but it can change performance) and the game selection wasnt as wide as it could have been.
But the biggest problem to me was that all of the games were GPU bound, which makes loads of difference because at 60 Fps both may handle it but when the Cpus have to compete with say 150Fps one may be able to go to 150 and the other may limit the game at 110Fps, but at 60Fps you wont see said results.
also use some logical thinking, not a lot of programs games are designed to take advantage of 8 "cores" and if a game only uses say 4 or even 2 per core the intel is a much stronger performer than the AMD so if you dont use all 8 Cores you are wasting all that extra performance.
Which is where the i7 comes in and why i would reccommend that, i has 4 Strong cores so it can run everything not able to use 8 and when a program can use 8 the Hyperthreading will give you a 20-30% boost in performance, the best of both worlds really.
P.s. a lot of Close races are GPU bound games, which would happen even with lower tier processors until you hit a threshold where the Cpu begins to limit a game.
Go for the FX-8350. The i7 3770K may be a little bit better in testing, but the price tag is way to high for the little performance advantage over the 8350. Instead use the money on a better graphics card .
The Intel CPUs have automated in taskstealing (simply put if one core is doing overtime another will steal tasks, so the task will be distrubeted more evenly over the cores), but there doesn't seem to be much code outside intels own c++ compiler that supports that for now.
AMD is not doing well at the moment (they got a really bad CEO that fired a lot of their development staff), so intel can be the market leader in two generations unless AMD turns around and comes up with something awesome, but everything can happen inside the electronics industry, maybe we all be running ARM or a texas instruments chip in a few years. AMD is good to buy now because the really need to sell some chips.
I also agree from that statement. I can't really base my opinion on hands-on experience though... Just check out my build in my profile and you'll see what I mean lol
EDIT: I forgot to hit reply to the guy who was bashing SATA II lol
Yeah, I've got a build with a 2600K, so I'm stuck with only two SATA III ports, lol.
Well that really sucks
lol Oh please good sir, look at those specs on your system! You could have IDE, that system would still plow through everything.
Very true, but if I ever want to run like 4 SSDs in RAID 0 or something crazy like that, I'd have to buy a separate RAID card, and that wouldn't really fit in my setup unless I either water cooled everything or bought an E-ATX motherboard. I am planning on water cooling everything eventually anyway though just because I've never actually tried it and I want to see if I'll be able to push my clock speeds higher. (My 2600k is at 4.6Ghz right now, and my GPUs are both at 940mhz on the core and 2200mhz on the memory).
I also want to upgrade to 16GB of RAM at 2133mhz and 1.5V, because the memory I have right now is at 1.65V, and I think that might be limiting my CPU overclock. Not to mention that 1.65V just isn't exactly ideal for Sandy Bridge memory.