dahuman said:
disolitude said:
Soleron said:
disolitude, come on, AMD is not an option for a £2000 gaming+rendering rig.
Zekkyou, that is a good build. You don't need the CPU fan, it should come with one and you're not overclocking.
The Agility 3 may be too slow, there are newer and faster SSDs.
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It doesn't sound like he is going to use his rig for rendering but streaming and uploading to youtube. AMD is perfect for that stuff and frankly better than 1155. Those cores come in handy when youre gaming + streaming at the same time.
And the whle point is that AMD rig wont cost him 2000 but 1200 and accomplish everything the x79 rig does.
And I agree about Agility 3. Vertex 3/4 and the mighty Vector are all better options from OCZ, let alone other manufacturers.
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I say he should wait for either the Steamroller or the next AMD CPU which is kinda long way off if he wants to go AMD, while I think the Piledriver works great for the price and is excellent for a server(like oh god it's good for the price!), it's not very future proof for gaming due to no native USB3 or PCIE3 support from even their own chipset. It's kind of weird that AMD makes PCIE3 video cards but their higher end PC builds don't have the option to use it o_O; The 3rd party USB3 chips are also really iffy at times, performance is not very stable on them at all.
I do think that build is overkill though, unless he does a lot of raw video editing, after effects, and photoshopping, but then that RAM amount is kind of bad for that kind of workstation. If it's a real workstation, I'd just get high bandwidth RAM at 64GB quad channel.
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You say that but here we are with an AM3+ mobo and PCIe 3.0 coming out soon - http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20130111104316_Asustek_Weds_AMD_FX_Platform_with_PCI_Express_3_0_in_New_Mainboard.html
Also I've not had many issues with USB 3.0 controllers on AMD boards. They may not do the full 5 Gbps as advertised but they are faster than USB 2.0
I think that PCIe 3.0 support isn't everything. For example, Haswell and 1155 boards only have 16 lanes of PCIe 3.0. Current AM3+ has native 32-40 PCIe lanes depending on the board, meaning that it can be faster than Intels platform for multi GPUs.
After all PCIe 3.0 of x8 + x8 in SLI = PCIe 2.0 of x16 x16
So I think AMD will be just fine in terms of gaming, especially now that more developers/engines are learning to use more than 2-3 cores when making games.
