You will need ~$650 bucks to match next gen consoles on PC

[dahuman]

disolitude said:

dahuman said:

ethomaz said:

No.

Even Intel 8 real cores is weaker than AMD 8 real cores when you talk about multithread tasks... SMP is better in AMD CPUs.

Some example: http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/444/AMD_FX-Series_FX-8350_vs_Intel_Core_i5_i5-3570K.html

You can research if you want... the problems is that Intel destroy AMD in single-threaded tasks... the difference is way bigger than the advantage in multi-thread performance of AMD... and PC Desktops uses more single-threaded tasks than multi.

You pretty much supported Dis with that link though, i5 runs on 4 cores and at a lower clock speed yet is competing with a processor that came out at a later date, runs on more power, and can't run on more than 60C for a long time without the processor being damaged. The really sad part is if you OC the 8350 to let's say 4.8(general max) and the i5 to about 4.2-4.5, the 8350 would get destroyed.

For the record, I got 5.2 Ghz stable out of my 8350.  :)

I had to scale back to 4.8 becuase its summer and my place gets really hot lol. Also the whole rig sucks close to 400 Watts when idle...lol

yeah.... I wouldn't want ot go over 4.8(I'd just keep the 8350 at stock, it's a good value CPU at what it is right out the box already, for now), the Wattage requirement jumps like a mother fucker once you reach a certain point even on the Intel CPUs.