955 to 4570 good?

[wigiboy]

id like to upgrade my pc from amd to intel

phenom ii x4 955 be with gigabyte 970a ds3p

to

intel i5 4570
asus b85m gamer or msi b85m gaming (which is better? idk..)

id like to play gta v, my graphics card is 280x

 

[fudgecakes99]

the msi comes with a legacy ps/2 port along with an extra pci x4 slot, the asus one does not.

I personally would say either, but i'm impartial to the msi just because they added a legacy port, granted it doesn't really matter now a days it's just kind of a if everything goes down the toilet you can bail yourself out with an old legacy keyboard and mouse. Though i'm fairly certain that'll never happen.

Also just so you know, if you're looking for gains in fps the biggest gains would come from a newer gpu not a newer.

But jumping from an amd cpu released in 2009 to one in 2014 will show some fairly impressive gains, newer arch. higher clock etc.

So you should see stable frame rate and maybe even higher frames with that cpu.

 

[wigiboy]

the msi comes with a legacy ps/2 port along with an extra pci x4 slot, the asus one does not.

I personally would say either, but i'm impartial to the msi just because they added a legacy port, granted it doesn't really matter now a days it's just kind of a if everything goes down the toilet you can bail yourself out with an old legacy keyboard and mouse. Though i'm fairly certain that'll never happen.

Also just so you know, if you're looking for gains in fps the biggest gains would come from a newer gpu not a newer.

But jumping from an amd cpu released in 2009 to one in 2014 will show some fairly impressive gains, newer arch. higher clock etc.

So you should see stable frame rate and maybe even higher frames with that cpu.

i thought the 955 is bottlenecking the 280x?

 

[fudgecakes99]

Bottle necking is such a blanket term, would you say a 2700k bottle necks a 980 ti more so then a 4790k, both are oced at 5.0ghz. In that scenario yes and no, it's not because it is providing more then adequate fps and it can be clocked fairly high right. But 4790k will always have a higher fps because of the micro archtecture, but are those couple extra frames really justified for the mobo/cpu costs?

It's subjective some would say yes it's bottle necked, but others would say no, because it's more then adequate. So technically everything is bottle necked, by definition whenever some new cpu drops, but really no.

Case and point this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDo-j00vUtw

4790k v 6700k v 2700k v 3700k.

We can see stock performance and one oc of a 6700k. The difference if we kept them at stock yes a noticeable diff from the 2700k to the 6700k about an average of 8 frames. 10 if you want to round it off. Thats a noticeable difference so technically a bottleneck. But again subjectively i could say, if you're used to seeing something in 240p or at 60hz and someone says 1080p and 144hz are much better does it really matter to you? I mean if you're used to a lower res and lower fps count you can't miss what you don't have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sx1kLGVAF0
And this video which is the same as the last one except all the cpus are at the same overclock.

The gap becomes less, but it's still their in newer AAA titles like gta 5, when you're rendering a bunch of stuff on screen. So whenever you have a bunch of stuff happening on screen the problem with older chips is the stability of the frames how far they'll dip when something explodes would be more noticeable with an 2700k then a 6700k.



Long story short.
Frame stability more so and less likely a higher frame rate is what you'll get with the upgrade.