I need a suitable alternative AMD CPU to the i5 3570k

[Guest]

I should answer the question: why? I don't feel the i5 3570k procesor was a great buy. Firstly, I thought I wanted to overclock but instead realised it wasn't worth the effort. This is because I bought this CPU as a means to build a gaming system; a task I accomplished. However, I very quickly learned I'm not as interested in gaming as I believed I was. I'm more of a general home user. And you can now understand why I'm annoyed that I've bought a pretty high-end cpu that is also over clockable, something of which i'm never going to do. Secondly, i'm running an asrock extremem 4 z77 motherboard, Worst buy of my life. Too many featues, too many of which i'm never going to use. Seriously, the most complicated thing I did with it was change some ram timings.

Back to the point. I'm not as knowledgeable as I was on amd chips about 9 months ago. Back then, I had some idea of the chip i'd go for. Much can change in 9 months, of course, so I need an up-to-date recommendation. I don't want to pay over £150 and i'd guess an appropriate cpu would be between £70-120. Just on the subject of buying appropriately, how can someone justify this ram: HERE

and yeah... im going to sell the mobo and intel chip

 

[Gam3r01]

Tis good ram, on the subject of the CPU this would be right in your ballpark. http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-FX8350-Edition-Processor-4-2GHz/dp/B009O7YUF6/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1384923435&sr=1-1&keywords=8350
Its at the upper end so if you want to spend less the FX-8320 or FX-6300 would be cheaper and still great.

 

[gman97005]

A10-7850k Kaveri, won't be released until Jan 14 but you can build a FM2+ system and install a low cost Trinity or Richland APU in the socket and use it in the meantime like i am doing, you need FM2+ motherboard, 8Gb G Skill DDR3 2133 CasLatency 9 memory, low cost Trinity or Richland APU and you are ready for Kaveri..

 

[leeb2013]

not really answering your question, but I can't understand your reasoning. You have a decent CPU and bottom end (but overclockable) mobo and you want to lose money selling it to buy a lower performance CPU and mobo, and then quite possibly lose money in the future because you'll have to upgrade earlier than if you kept the overclockable mobo and CPU. Just think, when you need some extra performance in x years time, it'll take 5 minutes to do a 30% o/c and your good for another couple of years. How can the extreme 4 be the worst buy of your life, what features does it have to make it such a pointless buy? It's a bottom end Z77 board, the only thing it can do over a $30 cheaper board is o/c the K CPU. How much are you expecting to make from a second hand CPU and mobo with no warranty? I would expect barely enough to buy a cheaper CPU and mobo.

Regarding the RAM, it's like asking how can you justify buying a Ford focus to go to work in, when a Fiesta will do the same job!

 

[Avro Arrow]

The only CPU that AMD makes that is the equivalent of the i5-3570K is the FX-8350. That's the CPU I have and it's an amazing multitasking monster. I think that you'd love it.

 

[Guest]

My point is that I'm feeling frustrated that I've bought all the parts for a gaming system and I'm not interested in gaming any more. This means I'm running a rather unnecessary expensive machine when in fact I'd be as happy if I was on a system at half the price. I'm not regretting anything because at the time I was pretty happy to go through the purchases. The purpose of this post was to try work that if I were to build another system (which I won't do obviously) then what would be the appropriate CPU for someone who isn't a gamer but is in fact a general home user. This would be a 'What if build' I agree with you on the money saving points you raised. I don't, however, consider spending £67 on RAM to be a wise investment when RAM can be bought for a 1/3 of the price. Maybe with people with lots of disposable income can buy £67 RAM but not me.

 

[Guest]

The only CPU that AMD makes that is the equivalent of the i5-3570K is the FX-8350. That's the CPU I have and it's an amazing multitasking monster. I think that you'd love it.

For gaming or video edititing software probably. for general pc tasks...too expensive & not worth the money

 

[Avro Arrow]

The only CPU that AMD makes that is the equivalent of the i5-3570K is the FX-8350. That's the CPU I have and it's an amazing multitasking monster. I think that you'd love it.

For gaming or video edititing software probably. for general pc tasks...too expensive & not worth the money

He asked for the equivalent. I gave it to him. Obviously the FX-6300 would be the better choice based on what he wants to do. Hell, even the A10-6800K would be a better choice as that APU and motherboard could be had for only $185. He's not going to be gaming so the on-die HD 8670D would be more than enough graphics horsepower.