Pretty much just what the title says. I know the ivy 3 has the advantages of a good upgrade path, multithreading in the cores, great single threaded performance, and a great low price without needing to use an aftermarket cooler to get good temps. Works better on most games as they are coded better for intel (at least the ones I play), lower power consumption (but doesn't it use power from the psu? confused here, help)
FX: larger l3 cache (not sure what that means) extra cores for better multitasking, improvement in gaming over the i3 (according to benchmarks), overclockable but requires a good aftermarket heatsink which means I might have to sacrifice a bit for the gpu. May not work well in cpu heavy games...etc...high power usage...which might piss off my mom, lol.
I play cpu heavy games like wow, rift, tera, gw, LOTR: Online, skyrim, planetside 2, bf3. Frankly my only PC gaming experience was on my amd e-450 APU laptop on 800x600 at lowest settings on wow and once on my friend's athlon x3 hd 5770 PC during a scII lan party (which was like freaking awesome.) Sick of consoles, moving on.
All useless bs aside, what do you think is better, has a better resale value, and will last me a few years?
FX: larger l3 cache (not sure what that means) extra cores for better multitasking, improvement in gaming over the i3 (according to benchmarks), overclockable but requires a good aftermarket heatsink which means I might have to sacrifice a bit for the gpu. May not work well in cpu heavy games...etc...high power usage...which might piss off my mom, lol.
I play cpu heavy games like wow, rift, tera, gw, LOTR: Online, skyrim, planetside 2, bf3. Frankly my only PC gaming experience was on my amd e-450 APU laptop on 800x600 at lowest settings on wow and once on my friend's athlon x3 hd 5770 PC during a scII lan party (which was like freaking awesome.) Sick of consoles, moving on.
All useless bs aside, what do you think is better, has a better resale value, and will last me a few years?