AMD v Intel

**Rotted** · 2013-03-10, 12:09 AM

So, I've posted a fair few threads about helping about building a new desktop, and I've got some backing intel, and some backing AMD, literally, its the last "wall" in my way before buying / building a new desktop,

So do you guys vote a Intel or a AMD?

Edit:

I shit you not, I was going to add a poll, but I've just walked in from a solo session on the pubs and "forgot" where the option is to add a poll

I shall add it in the morning, but replys welcome!

**Leonard McCoy** · 2013-03-10, 12:10 AM

Well AMD is getting out of the desktop market alltogether. I love my phenom black edition and if your building on a budget it's a good buy especially sinc eyou can overclock the piss out of it. If you got the money intel. I'll be moving to an i5 or i7 as soon as i get the cash together.

**Butler Log** · 2013-03-10, 12:24 AM

Well AMD is getting out of the desktop market alltogether.

No they're not.

What is your budget?

**glo** · 2013-03-10, 12:31 AM

Originally Posted by Butler Log

No they're not.

What is your budget?

It's astounding how one interview and a following poorly worded write up on it can convince the entire interwebs to believe misinformation. Not to mention it was what, almost a year ago?

**apepi** · 2013-03-10, 12:35 AM

For a good price, it is amd, for performance it is intel.

**Rotted** · 2013-03-10, 12:36 AM

500-700 GBP is my budget,

This is following a Ebay build from a company posting on the site, I shall put up the specs in a sec what they offer

**glo** · 2013-03-10, 12:39 AM

Originally Posted by Rotted

500-700 GBP is my budget,

This is following a Ebay build from a company posting on the site, I shall put up the specs in a sec what they offer

You should be going for Intel with a 700 gbp budget. Specifically the i5 3570k.

**Cyanotical** · 2013-03-10, 12:47 AM

for $190 you can get either an FX-8350 or an i5-3570K, so there really is no price difference

for most games it doesn't really matter, you are talking about a difference of only a few FPS, for multithreaded games like crysis3 the FX is better, for MMOs and other IPC dependent games the i5 is better

the i5 does have the major advantage of PCIe gen3, while the FX-8350 has all SATA3 ports

both are good CPUs, if this is a PC designed with the intent of WoW being your primary game, go with an i5-3570k, if this is going to be more of a workstation gaming computer, the FX-8350 is better for the price since Intel's workstation CPUs start at $570 (3930k)

**Butler Log** · 2013-03-10, 12:50 AM

Anybody think they can shave 47 quid off this build for the OP?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£164.34 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£101.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£37.39 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£69.96 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card (£156.56 @ Aria PC)
Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi Tower ATX Mid Tower Case (£68.94 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£69.84 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.45 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£67.19 @ Aria PC)
Total: £747.65
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-10 00:49 GMT+0000)

**Skarsguard** · 2013-03-10, 12:56 AM

@butler Log I would say the Case get something like the NZXT source 210 and also a Caviar blue instead of black I don't know how much extra black is in the UK.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/bitfenix-case-mercalpha or
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/nzxt-case-s210002

Here is the caviar blue
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/west...drive-wd10ezex

Edit:
Powersupply you could get the XFX 450 pro http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-...ply-p1450sx2b9 that is a bit cheaper as well.

**akro** · 2013-03-10, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by Butler Log

Anybody think they can shave 47 quid off this build for the OP?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£164.34 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£101.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£37.39 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£69.96 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card (£156.56 @ Aria PC)
Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi Tower ATX Mid Tower Case (£68.94 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£69.84 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.45 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£67.19 @ Aria PC)
Total: £747.65
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-10 00:49 GMT+0000)

Ya bump the 1tb drive down to a 500 or somthing thatll shave a little money and I dont know about price differances but a HAF 912 case is usually pretty cheap

**coil222** · 2013-03-10, 01:00 AM

I buy intel CPUs and I own AMD stocks

**Rotted** · 2013-03-10, 01:02 AM

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIBOX-ZETA...item2ec6b15c09

This is the build,

780:99 down to 469:99 GBP

Lets ignore the free games that come with it, now that build, with a OS included, can intel beat it? so to speak ?

**Butler Log** · 2013-03-10, 01:02 AM

Actually, there is about 39 pence difference between the CB 1TB and 500GB HDDs, according to pcpartpicker at least.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£164.34 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£101.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£37.39 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.90 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card (£156.56 @ Aria PC)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£46.99 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£69.84 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.45 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£67.19 @ Aria PC)
Total: £699.64
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-10 01:02 GMT+0000)

36 pence under the upper limit

**Skarsguard** · 2013-03-10, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by Butler Log

Actually, there is about 39 pence difference between the CB 1TB and 500GB HDDs, according to pcpartpicker at least.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£164.34 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£101.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£37.39 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.90 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card (£156.56 @ Aria PC)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£46.99 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£69.84 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.45 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£67.19 @ Aria PC)
Total: £699.64
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-10 01:02 GMT+0000)

36 pence under the upper limit

The 450 pro xfx should bring the price down even more and it's a solid PSU.

**solvexx** · 2013-03-10, 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by akro

Ya bump the 1tb drive down to a 500 or somthing thatll shave a little money and I dont know about price differances but a HAF 912 case is usually pretty cheap

Why would you drop the size of the hard drive down?
We're talking pennys.

If you want to save money change it from a WD Caviar Black to a Seagate Baracuda.
That will save you the money, you don't need a WD Black.

**Butler Log** · 2013-03-10, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by skarsguard

The 450 pro xfx should bring the price down even more and it's a solid PSU.

Not modular. Would be another 20 odd quid saved though.

**wuat** · 2013-03-10, 01:07 AM

Originally Posted by Rotted

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VIBOX-ZETA...item2ec6b15c09

This is the build,

780:99 down to 469:99 GBP

Lets ignore the free games that come with it, now that build, with a OS included, can intel beat it? so to speak ?

That has a bad video card, case, CPU and PSU, and don't tell you what harddrive or RAM they're giving you.
Plus no OS is included.

**Rotted** · 2013-03-10, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by wuat

That has a bad video card, case, CPU and PSU, and don't tell you what harddrive or RAM they're giving you.
Plus no OS is included.

oO no idea how the OS got lost, I upgraded on it from no OS to windows 8, to a better graphic card to get that link, I shall have to investigate! but thanks for pointing out!

**Chillstream** · 2013-03-10, 01:19 AM

You can get an AMD 8350 for the same price as that i3 now.

http://www.ebuyer.com/409184-amd-fx-...-fd8350frhkbox

Find your local version.

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