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| Thread ID: 127897 | 2012-11-20 17:50:00 | i 3550 vs AMD FX 8350 | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1313713 | 2012-11-21 01:02:00 | So if the 3570k was an AMD product. Would it be worthless? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1313714 | 2012-11-21 01:10:00 | No i love amd just not their cpus The fact that i can oc my 7950 and get the performace as good or in some cases better than a 680 shows you what amd is capable of. They have just missed the mark when it comes to cpus. |
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| 1313715 | 2012-11-21 02:30:00 | So if AMD makes a 3570k its worth something but if they make their own CPU that is of basically equivalent performance its worthless? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1313716 | 2012-11-21 03:00:00 | Calling it worthless was a bit harsh. However it still didn't make it into Toms "Best CPUs for the money" reccomendations and still barely beats the Phenom II in a lot of benchmarks. They rate it as equivalent to the fastest of the i3's for gaming purposes. www.tomshardware.com It is the highest up the gaming chart an AMD CPU has been for quite a long time and bear in mind they only test a small range of games they consider a good cross section. But even so the message is unchanged from previous AMD offerings, great as a general purpose CPU if efficiency doesn't matter to you but 2nd choice if you are a gamer after basically any i5. Yes some games are starting to benefit from higher core counts and that trend will likely continue, but for now it's still not enough to make them desirable for gaming. Note they generally don't recommend i7's for gaming either, rating the performance difference as trivial . For those that think they need more than a 4 core i5 the next recommendation is a 6 core sandy bridge-e but it's considered too much money for too little benefit. If you like AMD and want to support them great, they still make good CPUs that will do everything you want. If you just want the best CPU for Gaming buy an Intel. If you will benefit from more threads often enough to notice buy an AMD. I don't really consider the AMD chips true 8 cores, with shared resources per pair of cores they seem more like 4 x 1.5 cores to me or maybe like hyperthreading on steroids. Some enthusiasts advocate disabling 4 of the "cores" to enable higher overclocks and greater efficiency giving them the potential to match the per core performance of intel. |
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| 1313717 | 2012-11-21 03:07:00 | maybe worthless is a bit harsh but i just don't see any reason if your buying a cpu for quality of build and performance why you would go for an amd over an intel. Icow you can stop re iterating your previous statement that gives the impression that i am some kind of an intel fan boy, i am not. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
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