I have two Gaming PC's at very close prices. I want to know which one will be better for gaming, now and in the future. I have heard that AMD will be better in the future as the Next-Gen consoles will be using parts made by AMD therefore games will be better optimised for AMD.
I want play BF3, BF4, GTA 5, Watchdogs and any other new releases that catch my eye and i would want to play.
I dont want to do any video editing or livestreaming just pure gaming.
I dont want a SSD as i dont really care about boot times or loading times.
I want to overclock the CPU i choose so i want to know if the motherboard stated is good enough or just plain overkill.
Also will the GFX be able to run the Next-Gen games or will i have to upgrade very soon?
If you want to save some money to get a better GPU, get FX-8320. Otherwise, i5 is going to perform better and it makes no sense to get 8350 when the price is almost the same.
The 8320 is only £20 cheaper so i wont be able to get a better GFX. I am sure the 8350 is on par with the i5 3570k and another thing is that wont games be optimised for AMD cpu's?
There's no way to tell how the next-gen games will perform. Right now it's a gamble. Well, the difference between i5 and FX-8350 is a few FPS so if you want to bet on AMD optimization, you are not losing much in any case.
Games will supposedly be optimised to run on x86/x64 CPUs, not just AMD CPUs. Because Intel uses the same x64 and x86 extensions as AMD, it really doesn't make it a deciding factor.
If it's nothing but gaming you want, and you want it on a stock CPU than the i5-3570k or the FX-8350 will be your two to consider. Personally, I would use the FX-8350 just because I have the parts to get a running system going (also overclocking.) If I were building from scratch I'd use the i5.
Yea i am building from scratch. The i5 would a much better choice for £40 or should i save that and buy AMD, then with that £40 buy a SSD? It is better to have one than not.
I have seen the tek syndicate video on youtube fx 8350 vs i5 3570k and the 8350 beats the i5 in most games. So is Intel really worth £40 more? Is it going to give me 10fps on average more than the 8350 or is it going to be about 2-3fps?
The games you see the 8350 really advancing past the i5, and even the i7's in are the ones that actually use more than a single core/thread. It's when the 8350 can put more threads into play that it starts tearing the Intel CPUs apart. In single-threaded tasks, which most games still are even today, the i5 gets a leg up due to architectural differences.
The short of it is, the i5-3570K has 4 solid cores and the FX-8350 is 4 compute units with 2 threads per unit that share the resources. When a game asks for a single thread, the i5 gives it a full core with all of it's resources to back it up. The 8350 gives it one of the threads from a compute block, meaning you essentially only get half of a core's total resources, slowing it down a bit.
But that hardly matters, you really seem sold on the FX-8350. I don't blame you, it's a fantastic CPU at a fantastic price. You won't regret buying one.
Alright thanks for all your help. I am going with the AMD setup but one last thing will the hd 7950 (the chosen GFX) be able to handle the next-gen games that come out?
i would go with the AMD build but, i would pickup a diffrent mobo, and that ramm you selected patroit extreme master, is Highprofile ram, you gonne use that phanteks cooler, so you will get in trouble, better pickup G-skill Ares 2x4 GB 1866mhz they are low profile.
With the TA990FXE you can crank up the overclock as far as the chip can go. From what I've seen the FX-8350 stays safe up to 1.5v, the VRM on the TA990FXE is more than enough to provide that without compromising the overclock.
The ONLY reason I can see for not getting this board is that it's limited to 16GB of RAM. Realistically, you won't be needing that much.