- Jun 21, 2012
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I'm in a bit of a coundrum right now. My Phenom II @ 3.7ghz is getting extremely long in the tooth. With the imminent release of BF4 (especially 64 multilayer maps), the same can almost be said of my GTX 560ti 1gb. My upgrades I intend to do will occur within the next 30 days until 1st of the new year. (less then a month till Black Friday and only two months till Christmas!). My budget is a strict $500, although I rather spend closer to $400 if possible.
Option 1:
Upgrade my Phenom II X4/ASUS 990fx rev1.0 to an FX-8350 for $200 (or wait till Steamroller). Spend remaining on R9-280x for $300.00
Option 2:
Purchase at Microcenter: i5-3570k/ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 combo for $290.00.
Purchase at Newegg R9-270x for $200.00
Option 3:
Buy light-moderately used 2 year old i5-2500k from friend for $125.00.
Buy ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 from Newegg for $125.00
Buy R9-280x from Newegg for $300.00
Before I end this, I know BF4 will utilize more then four cores, so thus AMD's octacore processors do offer lots. However, AMD's lack of news regarding Steamroller, and Intel even admitting to errors with Broadwell (not even due out till 2nd half of 2014) has me very concerned. I'm excited to see what Mantle has to offer and for that reason, along with price, believe AMD's R series is a great offer.
Option 1:
Upgrade my Phenom II X4/ASUS 990fx rev1.0 to an FX-8350 for $200 (or wait till Steamroller). Spend remaining on R9-280x for $300.00
Option 2:
Purchase at Microcenter: i5-3570k/ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 combo for $290.00.
Purchase at Newegg R9-270x for $200.00
Option 3:
Buy light-moderately used 2 year old i5-2500k from friend for $125.00.
Buy ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 from Newegg for $125.00
Buy R9-280x from Newegg for $300.00
Before I end this, I know BF4 will utilize more then four cores, so thus AMD's octacore processors do offer lots. However, AMD's lack of news regarding Steamroller, and Intel even admitting to errors with Broadwell (not even due out till 2nd half of 2014) has me very concerned. I'm excited to see what Mantle has to offer and for that reason, along with price, believe AMD's R series is a great offer.
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