AMD Fan-boy going Intel!

[Vanadil]

Hi Guys,

I'm a long time AMD follower finally looking at going for an Intel as convinced by a friend. Please let me know what you think of the system. My budget is around £1000 and I'm happy for any suggestions at all really.


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[getochkn]

can't even see the image, too small, and it won't expand. why not use pc parkpicker

 

[getochkn]

ok, by right clicking I was able to open it a new tab and see it

First, you have a 1155 motherboard and a 1150 chip. They won't work. you need to switch one of them to be compatible.

Second, that PSU is way more power than you need.

Third, I'd wait a bit on getting an AMD card and see when the new R series is released. Yes, some of them are refreshed 7000 series, but still, the refresh is usually better, more tweaks, runs a bit better, etc. If you go the 280 or 290, it's a whole new chipset with Mantle API support, etc.

 

[socialassassin]

1. Your CPU and motherboard are not compatible. You will want a Z87 motherboard.

2. Add a CPU cooler if you want to try overclocking. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO is a good one.

 

[socialassassin]

ok, by right clicking I was able to open it a new tab and see it

First, you have a 1155 motherboard and a 1150 chip. They won't work. you need to switch one of them to be compatible.

Second, that PSU is way more power than you need.

Third, I'd wait a bit on getting an AMD card and see when the new R series is released. Yes, some of them are refreshed 7000 series, but still, the refresh is usually better, more tweaks, runs a bit better, etc. If you go the 280 or 290, it's a whole new chipset with Mantle API support, etc.

The R9 280X actually performs slower than the 7970GHz (see Tom's review). A bit disappointed but curious to see how the 290s will fare.

 

[Vanadil]

Cool thanks for the advice so far. Wasn't 100% on the socket (being only AMD before) , and the PSU in which case if you reckon the 650W will be ok saves me a bit of money as I already have 650W!

Also, I have an Arctic Pro II CPU cooler at the moment. Looks very similar to the one you suggested.

Please see the revised build below. used a different image host so hopefully looks better.

 

[Marcopolo123]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£137.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Be Quiet DARK ROCK PRO 2 67.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£53.24 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£129.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£63.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£71.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£63.37 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB Video Card (£259.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Corsair Air 540 ATX Desktop Case (£113.45 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair RM 750W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£98.95 @ Aria PC)
Total: £991.96
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-09 17:13 BST+0100)

 

[Vanadil]

Sexy . And conforms to my AMD lust. My Original build had the FX-8350. However all of the Benchmarks that I could find, the i-5 kicked the crap out of it in gaming performance? 🙁

Tell me that i'm wrong and i'll gladly consider the above! 😀 Great price for the SSD!

 

[Marcopolo123]

Recently bf4 received a patch, multicore performance got increased a lot.

Generaly i think the upcoming games are taking advantage from multicores.
http://gearnuke.com/battlefield-4-pc-beta-benchmarks-hint-at-brighter-prospects-amd-cpus-5682/
Beta.

 

[Vanadil]

gah I'm so conflicted then! What say you Tom's hardware?! AMD or Intel?!

FX-8350

or

i5 - 4670K

?!?!?!

 

[Vanadil]

Final build is looking like the following:

 

[Marcopolo123]

would get 120gb ssd,
change the psu to corsair rm 750w

and change the case to this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-129-BX