FX-6350 + 7950 VS 4670K + 7870 Ghz

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Rayano24

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What should I choice

AMD Option costs 1283$
Intel costs 1360$

Budget is limited. The Intel is already waayyy over

Purpose is heavy gaming! Planetside 2, Sim City, COD, Battlefield 3/4, Diablo III, Dota 2, Far Cry 3, Crysis 3

Other than that
Intel build has a MSI Z87-G43, XFX 550W, HAF 912, Sapphire 7870 Ghz, W8 64 Bit, G Skil Ripjaws 1.5V 1600MHz Dual channe 8GBl, 1TB 64MB 7200RPM WD Blue, Hyper 212 evo, ASUS 24X

AMD has the same except a M5A97 R2.0, FX-6350, Gigabyte 7950,


What should I take?
Both to be used on a full HD Monitor
Prices above include tax and shipping + monitor/keyboard. Any suggestions, only taking from Newegg.ca
Overclocking would not be done for minimum 1 and a half years.


EDIT

Just an extra build
for 1260$
I5-4670K & 7850 2GB Z87-G41 Corsair CX500 Modular
Could get a lower Res monitor -30 to 60$
 
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1) Why are you only willing to buy from newegg.ca? You can get way better prices at, say, NCIX.

2) Why aren't you going to overclock for 1.5 years? That seems kind of silly to me, especially when the big advantage to FX chips is that their lesser-cost solutions can overclock when intel's can't.

What's your total budget?
 
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First of all, not exactly, NCIX is way higher in a lot of points, Their 6350 is 153$ in comparison to 139$ at newegg, Their 7870's are starting at 245$ for the 229$ newegg. 7950 is another 10$ more. Cheaper I5 for 10$ but so? Also, Newegg's shipping is cheaper on my side, and I always order from them
Budget is 1200$

Just made one at that point (1180$)
Its a 4670K Z87-G41, 7850 2GB, 500W Modular Corsair, 720P Monitor, CM Elite 431 Plus, rest the same,
Can go even lower with a 8350 (1138$) even cheaper.

The FX clocks at 3.9Ghz which is way higher than the Intels, and honestly, I', happy with that.
 
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You can't really compare the clocks of the FX and Core i5; the Core i5 does a lot more calculations per MHz per core. However, you could certainly make a case for the FX-6350 being good enough. The more powerful graphics card will improve performance in many games; the slower CPU might reduce performance a bit in eg. Planetside 2 and Crysis 3 (both of which are relatively CPU-intensive, last I checked).
 
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Three points to make

In graphically demanding games like Crysis 3 my FX 6300 + 7870 score pretty much identical FPS to the Tomshardware gpu tests that used a socket 2011 intel cpu . The cpu is making a very small difference at 1080p resolution and above .
Indeed there are a lot of benches showing games in that class respond well to core counts , as much as the power of individual cores .

And dont buy the 6350 . Its just an overclocked 6300 . With an aftermarket cooler mine hit 4.7 GHz with cool and quiet enabled . Mostly I run it at 4.2 , but thats about making the PC quiet . I used AMD's OCing software . Simple , safe .

At stock speed the total math ability of the FX 6300 is very close to that of an intel 2500K . Per core comparisons are pointless since what intel calls a core and what AMD call a core are different .
 
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Well then, I'm thinking torwards AMD
How long can it run games well without overclocking?

And what do you think of the more budget friendly build I mentioned earlier? Should I just suck it up and take the 7950/6350 (1283$) 1080P, 970 Mobo, or the 7850/8350 1138$ 990FX Mobo, 720P Monitor or 7850/4670K (1180$) 720P Monitor

So ehh,
 
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Its a 30$ keyboard/mouse combo a 720P 80$ or 1080P 125$ Hanns-G Monitor.
The extra is a 40$ Dual Band WIFI Adapter

Parts list

AMD Budget Friendly 1132$
Hanns-G 18.5 inch monitor 1366x768 (80$)
Microsoft 800 Wireless Keyboard/Mouse (29$)
Linksys AE2500 Dual Band 802.11a/b/g/n 300mb/s (40$)
FX-8350 (200$)
Powercolor 7850 2GB (164$) Really good price tbh
ASROCK Extreme3 990FX Mobo (120$)
Corsair CX500 Modular (64$)
Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus (50$)
WD Blue 1TB 64MB 7200RPM (64$)
G Skill Ripjaws 8GB 1600MHz 1.5V (66$)
Windows 8 64 Bit (101$)
Hyper 212 Evo (35$)
ASUS 24X DVD Drive OEM (20$)

Intel Budget Friendly (1180$)
All are the same
Except
I5-4670K (250$)
MSI Z87-G41 Motherboard (110$)


AMD Other
FX-6350 (139$)
M5A97 Revision 2.0 (95$)
Gigabyte 7950 3GB (299$)
HAF 912 (69$ + 10MIR)
XFX Core Edition 550W (73$)
Hanns-G 21.5 Inch 1920X1080 (124$)
Everything else is the same as above.


If you can build me a gamng pc for 950$ without monitor,keyboard or wireless adapter. Please leave the specs, preferably Newegg.Ca
Tigerdirect is a plain no, charges over 150$ worth of tax and shipping in comparison to around 100$ from Newegg
NCIX is fine in this case

Also, Why is the 7850 only including Crysis 3, according to AMD, it should have Bioshock, Tomb Raider and Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (hope my memory is right)
 
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