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IHateLife on 22 January 2013
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disolitude said:
IHateLife said:
It makes sense, the FX-8350 is actually a really good CPU that was on sale at Newegg for 185 just a few days ago, it might not be the best for games all the time but it's very good for heavy multitasking or running xsplit with. The motherboards also cost way less in general that offers more features. Not having PCIe 3.0 is not exactly the best thing for future proofing single card solution setups but that's about it.


Yeah I was thinking about that and realized while true, compared to 1155 socket, it really doesn't make a difference.

1155 socket motherboard has a maximum of 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes going to the CPU (16X single slot or 8x, 8x dual). AM3+ has dual 16X, 16X options and even higher at higher prices. Since PCIe 3.0 is 2X faster than 2.0, there really is no performance difference between AM3+ at 16X, 16X and Ivy Bridge at 8x,8x

Also, we have hardly saturated PCIe x4 bandwith wise let alone x16, so for the next 5 years I don't see this being an issue.


I don't think it will have a problem in 5 years either, at least not for general purpose, the question is really how much difference it will be when Maxwell comes out.