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Vashyo said:

RicardJulianti said:

I was looking into the FX-8320....deciding to go with the i5-4670 instead since I won't be doing much more intensive than gaming (as far as threading goes). Buddy of mine went with almost the same setup as you...he only went with 4GB of RAM though (I don't know why...)

Would anyone mind if I post the specs I'm looking at going with and tell me if there are any problems for what I'm looking to do? I could do this over PM's too if that's better than hijacking the thread, haha.

From the looks of it you wont be needing a strong CPU to play games in the future, thanks to the insane amount of drawcalls AMDs mantle can push.

I'd say wait or possibly reconsider going with FX-8320, or alternatively get an APU since that seems to be the future according to AMD, if you're planning on playing any game that will be using AMDs mantle API. It can use the APUs GPU/extra cores for rendering purposes and some other tasks.

Oxide stated that a fully utilized 8 core 8350 can match i7 4770k in gaming performance during a tech demo demonstration in APU13 last week, they even ran the demo with an underclocked 2ghz 8350 without any framerate drops. No confirmation yet on how mantle will affect Intel CPUs so you might curse your decision later on. Better to just wait out for now for news.

I'd go against relying only on the promise of Mantle to decide what to buy now. Not many studios have announced their support for it, so the choice of a CPU should be purely done on a price/performance basis.

Also, if Mantle succeeds it will benefit both AMD and Intel CPUs, so whatever you get, you'll benefit from it.

Vashyo said:

Also note that mantle will only work on 7xxx/Rx 2xx series AMD GPUs right now, no confirmation whetever Nvidia will cooperate with their competitor.

Given that Mantle must work with AMD's next architecture (otherwise it would be a waste of money and resources on their part), it's hard to believe that it couldn't be ported to work with Nvidia GPUs, although knowing Nvidia they'll probably launch their own (and incompatible) version of Mantle.