Hi Everyone! I finally got to a point where I can change my ancient processor and motherboard. Over the years I've been upgrading other parts so these two are my highest priority atm. I am just wondering whether I should upgrade to a better AMD processor (for example FX8350) or if in my case it would be worth it to switch to Intel platform. Performance wise I guess going with Intel might be a better choice. However the next generation of its processors is not going to be compatible with the 1150 socket or even DDR3 RAM from what I hear. I wouldn't want to invest in a new platform and be forced to switch RAM+CPU+MB in a year or so to be able to further upgrade my gear. I'd appreciate your suggestions :)
I wouldn't wait for Skylake. It's not going to be here until the end of the year. And despite the rumors floating around, I don't think it's going to be that big of a performance jump. Get a Haswell refresh, and be done with it.
@rockking Well yes, unless I stick with my current mobo and just get a better AM3+ AMD processor. The point is my current board supports it and I was thinking if maybe this will give me some decent performance boost for a couple of months (for relatively low cost). I'll most likely switch to Skylake once it's out anyway.
I am under impression that my CPU is a bottle neck for the GPU. Even though the graphics card isn't the newest it should still perform better then it does now and in some games I notice ocasional FPS studder or this wierd effect: you quickly shift your view angle in some shooter and for a split second you see a textures in lower quality and it takes a moment for them to gain sharpness (that's the best way I can describe it, sorry :D).
So perhaps a better question would be: is it worth it to switch from my current processor (AMD Phenom II X2 565 @ X4 B65 (cores unlocked)) to some high end AM3+ CPU?
They're releasing the desktop ones this summer, but the i5 and i7's are going to be clocked pretty low. They're going with "C" instead of "K" too. Perhaps because it doesn't live up to the performance expectations of a next generation, high end CPU.
@Jason_Thongphetmanic That's why I am still on the fence whether switching to Intel at this point is a valid option. I am concerned that in the worse case scenario Skylake won't be released until the end of the year and I could use some extra power now. It just seems that now is not the best time for shopping.
msi lists on their site a list of CPUs supported by the board and no FX processors are on it. you do have support for a Phenom II X6. however in the BIOS updates there was one that added support for a Vishera CPU but i really wouldnt try it
Just to wrap this up I decided to go ahed and upgrade to i5. In 12 maybe 18 months I'll switch to Skylake if it proves to be worth it. Thanks a bunch for help! :)
My guess, It's probably because the Broadwell chips won't be faster than Devil's Canyon. It's pretty interesting and strange, all at the same time. They're going to probably perform worse than the current offerings, but they'll have Iris Pro graphics. Because of the higher powered iGPU, some people have speculated that, perhaps the new "C" SKU processors could be a response to AMD's APUs.
It does sort of make sense, but they're the same price as the Devil's Canyon chips, so.. Yeah...
They're going back to "K" for Skylake, though. If I remember that correctly.
switch to i5 for pure gaming... if you need heavy threaded multimedia the i7 4790K is better... and if you really want to go big.. get the i7 5820K probably one of the best six cores on the entire market
Your current Motherboard is AM3 so the FX 8350 won't work. You would need a new Motherboard to upgrade so if your going to change, I would go i7 or wait for Skylake.
AMD has some CPU's for the FX series in the pipeline but not until 2016 will we see them. They are said to have x4 the instructions per clock as the current Piledriver architecture in the FX 8350.
It's a interesting time to upgrade but do you sell yourself short and upgrade now or can you wait and get Skylake which is more up to date.