Building my first PC and would like some input

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Soleron said:

cloud1161 said:

Soleron said:

cloud1161 said:
 I got my AMD FX 4100 CPU for $95 and it has virtually the same specs as that CPU. It's quad-core 3.6 GHz, 4.1 GHz overclock.

And you're the only reason anyone is buying AMD CPUs these days. It's the old Pentium 4 problem in reverse.

No need to get offensive here.  One of the main reasons I chose an AMD processor was because every computer or laptop I've ever owned had Intel processors and I wanted to change things up.  I don't hold prejudice over either company unlike alot of people on this site (not saying you do, just some other people hold alot of bias one way or the other).

wut

http://techreport.com/review/22835/review-intel-core-i7-3770k-ivy-bridge-processor/19

i7 3770K = 225 performance, 4 cores, 3.5GHz base clock
FX-8150 =  160 performance, 8 cores, 3.6GHz base clock
Let us assume, conservatively, that performance scales with square root of core count

Hence Ivy Bridge = (225/160)*(3.6/3.5)*(SQRT(8)/SQRT(4)= more than 2x the per-clock performance of AMD

Hence the CPU he chose, i5 3570K, is about twice as fast as the FX-4100 you're suggesting and hence is the better choice even if you had a company preference.

That's right, processors with the same core count and clock speed can perform vastly differently!

I like AMD but they're extremely dead.

 

Well. My Core i7 3930K @ 4.8ghz is about twice as fast as my old Phenom 2 x6 1090T @4ghz+3ghz NB when it comes to encoding, so it's not far off the mark, especially with the Phenom 2 being faster than the FX in single threads, however the Core i7 has Hyper Threading which gives it a boost in such tasks.
As for gaming? I noticed zero difference. (Then again at 5760x1080, it's to be expected.)

If I were to choose a system  for gaming and had a choice between the FX 4100 and a Core i7 3570K but the FX had a Radeon 7970 and the i7 had a Radeon 7870 to keep prices similar, I'll go for the FX every damn time, the GPU has the largest impact on games performance these days.

But it's silly to think AMD's chips can't play games, it's simply not true, when the budget calls for it, go for it and get a better GPU or an SSD instead.