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srgramrod wrote:since he has the money
emvath79 wrote:I assume you will be helping him choose a decent GPU for this thing? If he is planning on using the integrated graphics for gaming (and if he has money he shouldn't be) then AMD would be the better choice. If using a discrete GPU (like all gamers should be)...Intel.
superjawes wrote:emvath79 wrote:I assume you will be helping him choose a decent GPU for this thing? If he is planning on using the integrated graphics for gaming (and if he has money he shouldn't be) then AMD would be the better choice. If using a discrete GPU (like all gamers should be)...Intel.
Crossfire, or not to crossfire...
sschaem wrote:Price is no object ? i7-4960x or i7-4770k
But then again, even with a Titan SLI setup AND gaming at only 1080p, a $145 FX-8320 get you > 60fps
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7255/inte ... e-review/5
For <$150 I would consider AMD the better overall choice, gaming included. But >$200 only Intel makes sense. Actually until recently AMD didn't make a desktop CPU >$200
So dont want to spend more then $150 on a CPU? the fx-8320 is a good choice (but from your sig you seem to know that ) >$200, whatever Intel got.
sschaem wrote:For people talking about frame latency, didn;t TR and many other sites showed the FX to perform like an i7 in games like Battlefield 3 ?
Actually yep, TR showed the fx-8350 to behave better then even an i7-3770k, so you get more stutter with intel then AMD with that game/engine.
vargis14 wrote:Games are starting to use more and more threads so hyperthreading is not a bad thing especially with newer games like say BF4 will prefer a quad core with HT I presume. Then a year or 2 from now he has the extra threads if he needs them.
JohnC wrote:srgramrod wrote:since he has the money
Intel.
JohnC wrote:sschaem wrote:For people talking about frame latency, didn;t TR and many other sites showed the FX to perform like an i7 in games like Battlefield 3 ?
Actually yep, TR showed the fx-8350 to behave better then even an i7-3770k, so you get more stutter with intel then AMD with that game/engine.
No, they did not, Stephan. Not in a properly benchmarked multiplayer level.
sschaem wrote:BF3 show what will become the norm for PC gaming.
http://techreport.com/review/23750/amd- ... reviewed/7
sschaem wrote:multiplayer.. is it really that bad? I didn't find much,
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Battlefie ... k-1039293/
End User wrote:JohnC wrote:srgramrod wrote:since he has the money
Intel.
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flip-mode wrote:End User wrote:JohnC wrote:Intel.
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