@ microcenter there is only a $10 difference in price.
What is the performance difference? Is it even noticeable? Do both accept pci express 3.0(even though i read 2.1-3.0 is not much difference)? I read somewhere that AMD cant use high speed ram?
I pretty much only play video games and want to play Battlefield 3. This will be for a new build and only play games on my netbook and phone at the moment.
They will be about equal in performance when ALL threads are used, i5 will crush it in single to 4 threaded apps, absolutely. It's very noticeable in everything that isn't heavily threaded. FX series can use high speed ram, I've seen up to 2400mhz.
i5 3570k will use less power, and be stronger in all apps that use less then 8 threads, it will also get a higher overclock (if you do that sort of thing) with equal cooling.
The performance difference in pci 2 to 3 is negligible with current gen cards. I don't believe Bulldozer has pci e 3.0 support.
For gaming you do not want the FX series, it's all playable, but the 3570k will offer higher minimum and average frame rates. As for the am3+ vs z77 if you did go with a Fx-81xx you'd want a quality board with good vrm setup because that thing is one of the most power hungry amd processors to date.
Funny you should ask i asked the same thing a month ago and read all the biast intel tech threads and chose the i53570k based on all i have read and toms and other so called bench mark sites.
*sigh* when it comes to gaming, i5-3570K is clearly the winner, far more better than FX 8150. As you should already know, 8 Cores just like more than 8 RAM is useless in gaming. Yes, you can gaming with FX 8150 but you won't be able to experience a greater performance just like i5-3570K. FX 8150 may also bottleneck your GPU. In applications like Photoshop, video editing software and so on, FX 8150 should be a good one since it has many cores. For gaming, go for i5-3570K, no hesitation.
By the way, if you support ATI/AMD, there is no problem if you go with their product. They're good too.
I'm gaming on an FX 8150 right now and have zero problems, but in my case I'm running single card eyefinity so the GPU runs out of steam long before the CPU becomes an issue. If you were going to start fresh I would recommend the 3570k. I own both and just sold a 3770k, the 3570k is the sweet spot for games right now like everyone else said.
I had to make that choice myself needed a new rig to play planetside2 my friend has an 8150 bulldozer and recommended it. I decided that i would research it cause toms hardware and random benchmark tests scattered all over the internet said that the i53570k and gtx670 were the way to go. his rig performed much better in planetsid2 and today we ran some real bench marks
I had to make that choice myself needed a new rig to play planetside2 my friend has an 8150 bulldozer and recommended it. I decided that i would research it cause toms hardware and random benchmark tests scattered all over the internet said that the i53570k and gtx670 were the way to go. his rig performed much better in planetsid2 and today we ran some real bench marks
: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4966014 http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2841317
Hope this helps. Question is does intel have their finger on the scale?
So I can score higher with a locked quad core Xeon at 3.1ghz than your 3570k? Those are incomparable rigs tbh, he has more graphics horsepower than you do and you've obviously not overclocked that card very far. Plus hes clocked that 8150 to 4.8ghz which is pretty substantial, thats what I'm running mine at right now as well.
This thread needs to be locked. It was created before piledriver. No one should be recommending a bulldozer CPU now for anything unless you can get way below the current retail price.
Old thread is old ... keep this in mind if you're bothering to respond.
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