Intel I5 or I7 vs AMD Bulldozer

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Hi Guys,

I'm looking at designing a new PC. I've always been AMD when it comes to GFX + CPU but as I am starting a fresh I am looking for second opinions.

The CPU is the main thing I'm looking at currently as I've sorted out everything else.

RAM: 8GB / 12GB
GFX: GTX 770 Overclocked
Water cooling
6TB SATA 3
And a sexy case.
 
Word is bulldozer line has poor price to performance ratio. Piledriver architecture is much more efficient and some benchmark report better performance than the intel competitors in the same price brackets. I've never tried them myself. I'm just parroting.
 
I have a Vishera FX 8350 OC'ed at 4.5 GHZ and I'm very proud of it. I payed only 140$ for it.
 
Depends what you're playing. Source games are a bit of a wild card but games like Crysis 3 and Bioshockhave better benchmarks on AMD cards and processors whereas stuff like Skyrim and Minecraft work better on Intel and Nvidia processors and cards.

If you're going for the 770 I would go for an Intel processor because they run better together. Saying that though, I have an i5 3850k and a 3gb AMD/MSI frozr 7950 running in my rig and they both run together very well. Never come across any problems. I've been able to run Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite and everything else I play at highest settings without any trouble.

Also, if I were you, I would drop your hard drive down a bit and invest in a nice Samsung SSD for your boot drive and use your normal hard drive for everything else. It'll make your startup speeds a hell of a lot faster.
 
Dont buy a bulldozer please for gods sake.

It's a absolutely terrible, sounds good, works terrible. i5 is great for gaming, i7 pricier and more for compiling/rendering etc...
 
Yea I'll probs get a 60GB SSD for my boot drive and 2x 2TB HDD for my stuff.
 
AMD is cheap and makes horrible drivers since like fucking ever. Get i7, and not the "cheaper&shittier" version but the proper one.
 
Killarag said:
Yea I'll probs get a 60GB SSD for my boot drive and 2x 2TB HDD for my stuff.
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TBH I don't agree with the consensus that "because AMD is cheaper, it is crap" - It is true Intel do have the edge with regards to CPU's but you can still get an AMD processor which is 90% as good an an Intel one for half the price.

Take the AMD 1090T Black Edition for example, it was the best performance to price ratio CPU out there a year ago and it still is up there. It's only about £250 and you won't find anything with better value for under £500
 
AMD have some good CPU's for the price but the Bulldozer is just horrible.
 
well i mean
i use an ati card right now and its been okay
as for the processors i cant really say much. my i5 was a top-end one before the new line came through and it works pretty damn fine.
 
I have an i5 and it's great.

Before I had an AMD Phenom II X4 955

It was really good too, just bit outdated hence why I upgraded.
 
littleb said:
TBH I don't agree with the consensus that "because AMD is cheaper, it is crap" - It is true Intel do have the edge with regards to CPU's but you can still get an AMD processor which is 90% as good an an Intel one for half the price.

Take the AMD 1090T Black Edition for example, it was the best performance to price ratio CPU out there a year ago and it still is up there. It's only about £250 and you won't find anything with better value for under £500
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The 1k series stopped production almost a year ago, you can't find new ones on the market.
 
Ruxandra said:
The 1k series stopped production almost a year ago, you can't find new ones on the market.
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I'll sell you mine £1000.
 
i5 3570k

As shown by this the i7 really isn't going to make much of a difference if you're mainly after performance in games.
 
You don't need an i7 or really any processor with alot of cores, simply because you won't need them for playing video games. It's like buying 16 gigs of ram for playing games. Use that money on a better GPU :)

Also, generally speaking, AMD is good if you're on a lower budget-but if you have a decent amount of money to spend, then it's more of a toss-up. You can find deals alot of times that make an AMD processor better as far as price/performance goes.
 
AMD's architecture is pretty much a thousand miles away from Intel.

Intel's architecture is very, very good; the way the processors are designed, that is.

AMD's price-quality relation is better than intel, since it's very cheap, but if you're looking for big time performance, go for the i5 or the i7.

If you've got doubts, go look up a benchmark.

Do you want a more complex explanation?

Intel's cache levels are bigger (if not faster transference-wise, not sure on that), that means that it can store more instructions that the control unit can access stupidly quickly, that means a shit ton of performance gain.

There are probably more reasons, that's the only one I can come up with.
 
Intel's design is more sophisticated and high-tech but it doesn't always translate into performance. AMD will still deliver where it matters, despite being less advanced.
 
Intel's processors are faster than amd's equivalents, that's a fact. (I'm speaking of the present, not of the past, where the Athlon 64 beat intel)

But amd is cheaper and still works, so...
 
Pruney said:
I have an i5 and it's great.

Before I had an AMD Phenom II X4 955

It was really good too, just bit outdated hence why I upgraded.
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this is what im running right now fuck kill me

ahem, 940.

http://puu.sh/39eCV.png
 
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