CPU For recording gameplay & Editing -AMD FX 8350 or i5 4670K

[cdvfx]

I'm building a PC. Main focus is gaming & recording, and video editing. I've heard good things about both CPUs. Which one is the best?
Other specs I want to get:
EVGA GTX 760
8GB Corsair Vengeance Ram

The games I will be recording are Steam games, such as TF2 and Rust.
Thanks

 

[JOOK-D]

I'm tempted to say that the FX would be better for the tasks. For solely gaming the i5 would be the better pick though.

What's your budget for the CPU and motherboard? A Xeon 1230v3 would be an even better choice if you can squeeze it in!

 

[cdvfx]

I'm tempted to say that the FX would be better for the tasks. For solely gaming the i5 would be the better pick though.

What's your budget for the CPU and motherboard? A Xeon 1230v3 would be an even better choice if you can squeeze it in!

To be honest I don't really have a budget. I'd like the whole build to be about $1000, but if it goes a little over that's fine.

 

[vmN]

The 4670k and 8350 should be streaming about the same, could go either way depending on software.
If you are limited to a budget, get the 8350 with the 770, it will give you good performance.
Also you could be looking at shadowplay.

 

[konawolv]

dont know if you built this yet, but the FX 8350 presents almost no fps loss in games when streaming as it really does take advantage of the extra cores. Its actually on average a better processor to stream with than the 3770k (4770k) as well. Tek Syndicate did a good overview on this. He is one of the only people who really tested the 8350 with the proper scheduler being in place for windows. Here is one of those videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8Sekdb-IE&list=TLL6GwFerdb50ceGldpCAGhKbzgVMe5Mtd

 

[Moees36]

The 4670k and 8350 should be streaming about the same, could go either way depending on software.
If you are limited to a budget, get the 8350 with the 770, it will give you good performance.
Also you could be looking at shadowplay.

You said to use the GeForce GTX 770...wouldnt you want to use a Radeon 270x, 280x, or 290x? I mean it would be a AMD CPU with AMD GPU. ALSO if you get the AMD FX 8350 with the low cost you could invest in a better GPU like the Radeon 290x for superb graphical performance.

 

[logainofhades]

I'm tempted to say that the FX would be better for the tasks. For solely gaming the i5 would be the better pick though.

What's your budget for the CPU and motherboard? A Xeon 1230v3 would be an even better choice if you can squeeze it in!

I agree on the 1230v3.

 

[VenBaja]

dont know if you built this yet, but the FX 8350 presents almost no fps loss in games when streaming as it really does take advantage of the extra cores. Its actually on average a better processor to stream with than the 3770k (4770k) as well. Tek Syndicate did a good overview on this. He is one of the only people who really tested the 8350 with the proper scheduler being in place for windows. Here is one of those videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8Sekdb-IE&list=TLL6GwFerdb50ceGldpCAGhKbzgVMe5Mtd

Even if the 8350 has little to no fps loss; if the 3770k or 4770k yield significantly higher minimum and average fps, then it's likely a moot point. This is hypathetical of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. Say for instance in BF4 you get an average 70 fps at a given setting, with dips down to 57. Now imagine that with the all other components the same and the settings the same a 4770k gives you an average 90 fps with dips down to 72, and that recording or streaming only lowers your fps by 8. In that case, the 4770k is the better performer.

Another thing to think about is that almost every single big time streamer and/or Youtuber use either the 3770k or the 4770k. Some also still use the 2xxx series i7's. Being that a lot of those guys make a career out of streaming and/or recording gameplay, you would think that if AMD offered similar or better performance there would be a much greater variety of CPU's being used.

 

[konawolv]

you see, the thing is that the i7 doesn't yield those types of results over an fx 8350. I see what youre saying, and understand your argument, but that isn't how the real world performance translates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8Sekdb-IE&list=TL8eHV2LhvHTYZqRiQpNP1Cp5VbIxfLuJc

This is one of I think 2-3 videos Tek Syndicate did on the subject of real world performance. He also touched on the stream capabilities of the chips (the rig they have in studio for streaming is an amd FX 9XXX cpu, which is an OCed 8350). He was the only tech person who reviewed the chip properly with the (then) most efficient instruction set.

I run an FX 8350 and I have NEVER experienced performance that was similar to what reviewers stated the chip was capable of. My perf has always been much much better.

Is the chip overall better than an i7? nope. But, its a better value and you wont see a difference between the two outside of synthetics and some TRULY single core tasks.

And no, I don't expect big time streamers to actually know what is best for your money. I expect them to read big time review sites' reviews from the end of 2012, then go onto a forum or two and ask about which components are best, and have people force feed i5's and i7's to them (because those people read those same reviews).

I don't understand why its so inconceivable to think that an FX8350 is more efficient and/or on par with most tasks and games as an i7.

 

[CGF]

you see, the thing is that the i7 doesn't yield those types of results over an fx 8350. I see what youre saying, and understand your argument, but that isn't how the real world performance translates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8Sekdb-IE&list=TL8eHV2LhvHTYZqRiQpNP1Cp5VbIxfLuJc

This is one of I think 2-3 videos Tek Syndicate did on the subject of real world performance. He also touched on the stream capabilities of the chips (the rig they have in studio for streaming is an amd FX 9XXX cpu, which is an OCed 8350). He was the only tech person who reviewed the chip properly with the (then) most efficient instruction set.

I run an FX 8350 and I have NEVER experienced performance that was similar to what reviewers stated the chip was capable of. My perf has always been much much better.

Is the chip overall better than an i7? nope. But, its a better value and you wont see a difference between the two outside of synthetics and some TRULY single core tasks.

And no, I don't expect big time streamers to actually know what is best for your money. I expect them to read big time review sites' reviews from the end of 2012, then go onto a forum or two and ask about which components are best, and have people force feed i5's and i7's to them (because those people read those same reviews).

I don't understand why its so inconceivable to think that an FX8350 is more efficient and/or on par with most tasks and games as an i7.

you have some very good points but Linus did his own benchmarks and got a completely different story.

 

[logainofhades]