I am in need of some help from any knowledgeable members of TH. I am planning on upgrading to a new CPU soon for my current system. I want something that will allow me to play on high/max settings for games but still be over 60 frames while streaming. My current CPU, which is an AMD FX-8120 8-core Zambezi o.c'ed to 3.8 GHz just is not cutting it. I have already established that this has to be my current bottleneck because most games I cannot play on high nor consistently over 60 even on low settings especially while streaming. I see about a 20-30% performance drop in-game while i stream with this CPU. I can get more detailed specs of my entire system but for now the basics should suffice. (I am sure there is a test I can run on my system to give me a list of all my components but don't know of any personally)
FX-8120 @ 3.8 Stable
Radeon HD 7950 3GB
GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ MB
Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 RAM @ 1333 (will not allow me to clock to 1600 for some reason)
700W ATX 12V 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU
240GB Samsung SSD
I want to see if I can find another AMD CPU that runs just as well performance wise as an i7-4770K if possible. The ones I have looked at are the FX9590 and the FX8350. For the time being due to money restraints I would rather not go Intel if I can, but I do plan to make a purely gaming rig in the near future that will be Intel and keep my current as my editing/rendering/streaming rig. Though to make Intel work I would need a new MB and between the 2 of those it would be around 600 USD with tax. I thought i made a good choice with my current 8120 but i was mistaken for gaming. I just do not want to make a bad choice a second time and go AMD if I really should switch intel. I would plan to keep the replaced MB and CPU until I can get the other components needed to replace the CPU and MB and put the intel stuff into the gaming rig.
I know This is a fairly long segment but if anyone may have some insight I do not on if there is any AMD CPUs that are what I am looking for or if I am better of going intel and spending the extra money now. I just want a system that can demolish most games and still be able to stream without that performance damp from the cpu encoding of stream. I see so many people playing games on max settings over 100 frames and I would just like to have that assurance.
FX-8120 @ 3.8 Stable
Radeon HD 7950 3GB
GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ MB
Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 RAM @ 1333 (will not allow me to clock to 1600 for some reason)
700W ATX 12V 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU
240GB Samsung SSD
I want to see if I can find another AMD CPU that runs just as well performance wise as an i7-4770K if possible. The ones I have looked at are the FX9590 and the FX8350. For the time being due to money restraints I would rather not go Intel if I can, but I do plan to make a purely gaming rig in the near future that will be Intel and keep my current as my editing/rendering/streaming rig. Though to make Intel work I would need a new MB and between the 2 of those it would be around 600 USD with tax. I thought i made a good choice with my current 8120 but i was mistaken for gaming. I just do not want to make a bad choice a second time and go AMD if I really should switch intel. I would plan to keep the replaced MB and CPU until I can get the other components needed to replace the CPU and MB and put the intel stuff into the gaming rig.
I know This is a fairly long segment but if anyone may have some insight I do not on if there is any AMD CPUs that are what I am looking for or if I am better of going intel and spending the extra money now. I just want a system that can demolish most games and still be able to stream without that performance damp from the cpu encoding of stream. I see so many people playing games on max settings over 100 frames and I would just like to have that assurance.