sign if you are solely a pc gamer.

[Pemalite]

BasilZero said:

Pemalite said:

That's easy to answer. The 4670K if you want your system to last a *very* long time as you can just simply overclock it.
Then just throw a new GPU at it every several years.
If you do lots of encoding/transcoding... Then the 4770K is worth it or even the 4930K/3930K.

As someone who has essentially the fastest Intel and AMD processors money can buy... Intel is easily the way to go.

i5 with 3.4 ghz sounds smexy.

Better than what I have which is a AMD Athlon II X4 630 Quad Core with 2.8 ghz >.>.

But I might go with the i7 by the time I start upgrading again which probably wont be anytime this year :P.

I think my rig will last me another year or so with upcoming releases until I need another one for future releases. Although there's a lot of games I still need to play from this past generation though :P. I have a AMD HD Radeon 7850 2GB OC right now.

I think by that time I might start building an entirely new PC.

How's Windows 8 when it comes to PC gaming btw? Any bugs, errors, etc?

A move from your Athlon 2 x4 to an i7 4770K should yield you anywhere from 2x-4x increase in CPU performance.
The "Mhz/Ghz" rating is pointless unless you're comparing CPU's of the same type due to how different CPU architectures can do in regards to more/less work per mhz.

As a side question... Have you tried setting/turning on Advance Clock Calibration (Also known as ACC) to All/On in the BIOS? You might be lucky enough to have a die-harvested Phenom 2, which if it unlocks... Would yield you some free performance, if something strange occurs and you can't boot the machine, just pull the battery out of the motherboard/set the jumper to reset the BIOS.

As for Windows 8, I wouldn't personally bother, the OS is fantastic on my Intel Atom tablet, but it's horrible on my triple monitors, so much wasted space in Metro, granted the OS is more efficient and on my Tablet some older games actually run better than Windows 7 did from a stability point of view. (Games like Homeworld, Dungeon keeper, Evolva etc'.)