disolitude said:
Zekkyou said:
disolitude said:
I honestly think if this is just for gaming, you're wasting your money.
I can't find a single scenario where you would want an X79 rig for gaming to be honest.
Single moitor setup at 1080p - you will hit 60 fps maximum with AMD FX/1155 CPUs easily
Single monitor setup at 2560 - GPU becomes the bottleneck before CPU
Multimonitor setup - GPU is bottleneck
3D gaming - GPU
Only instance where x79 platform makes sense for gaming is if you are doing 3way SLI/Crossfire and have 3 monitors that are 120 hz and you want 3 X 120 frames per second.
For rendering and other CPU intensive stuff its a different story...but for gaming you can save major coin by getting the AMD AM3+ platform or 1155.I'd recommend AMD to be honest due to dollar/performance ratio... Benchmarks show that newer games like Crysis 3 and Metro run as good if not better on AMD's 8 core processors and with consoles going that route, the optimizaton for AMD will only improve.
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I should probably have mentioned this is for my youtube channel, so it will be used for a lot of rendering and video storing (hense 2 2TB hardrives). I do want it to be pretty future proof (so in 3 years time still be able to run games at max. Though that's hard to judge with the next gen popping along). Would it still be worth moving down on the platform? I know little about computers past the basics of what each part in general does :/ But thanks for your time ^^
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In that case it does make more sense to invest in to an X79 platform and intels 6 core processor. The question comes down to if AMD's 8 core will be able to do the job for 50% less money. X79 platform is more powerful, but is it worth the money? I think gaming wise you have nothing to worry about on the AMD side. Game optimization will only improve and swing towards AMD's favor of more cores.
Also it is believed that AMD will release another CPU on the AM3+ platform which should improve performance so upgradability may be an option down the road.
Check out this vid, it specifically talks about streaming while gaming while comparing AMD to Intel CPUs -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4et7kDGSRfc
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So looking at that video the AMD is the better choice to go with performance wise? Are there any kind of quality differences between the two, or is the Intel price point purley because they have brand trust?
