| BlueFalcon said: disolitude, great link. I loved their STFU formula for electricity costs. Hilarious. I think AMD's main weaknesses for FX8350 lie in perception and in honesty there are some popular titles that are only dual-core threaded (Bethesda games like Skyrim, or Blizzard games like Starcraft 2, Diablo 3 and WOW). If more games were multi-threaded properly like BF3 or Arma II series, then FX8350 would be a bargain for $199 (actually 8320 even more so at $169). For now there there are certain cases where the performance of FX8350 isn't optimal but hopefully with PS4/720 consoles, more and more games will shift to being threaded for 4 cores and beyond. Seems like AMD bet that software would become more highly multi-threaded a lot earlier than it actually will be. Bulldozer/Vishera were great in theory IF software was highly threaded today, but unfortunately due to the long tail-end of the PS360 generation and so many PC console ports being shoddy/only scale with 2-3 cores, FX8350 often can't show its true potential. Granted someone spending $800-1000 on GTX680/7970GE CF is probably not going to flinch at the $125 premium that i7 3770K has over the 8350 but someone getting just 1 single GPU like a GTX670 shouldn't be calling AMD chips "completely crap", etc. It's overblown, that's for sure unless you spend a 90% of your time playing WOW, SC2, Skyrim, etc. |
Yeah...According to the benchmarks they did, even for Skyrim it appears that you are hitting 60 fps with the stock 8350. So I would say that unless you are playing Skyrim and have a 120 hz monitor and need more frames per second than 60, you are absolutely fine with an 8350.
I made this thread a few days ago about building a sub 1000 dollar gaming rig - http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=153434&page=1#18
I really can't find a single reason to go intel if you have 1000 dollars to spend. Even higher spec'd rigs can go AMD and not see any performance loss. For example if I am about to go 3 X 1080p eyefinity or 3D surround even. This is all GPU... You will have 3 X GTX 680 in tri SLI and I guarantee you that the CPU isn't going to bottleneck anything at 6010x1080 3D vision enabled or 3 X 1080p @60 hz.
It's only if you are doing synthetic benchmarks, folding@home or have 120hz monitors that intel comes in handy as far as I see it. (when it comes to gaming)
