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stalkingdatoast

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I was very lucky to win a free used gaming computer from ibuypower via major league gaming and now i have 2 computers, not sure wich one keep, or wich one is better, i would love some opinions from the experts and help me decide on wich one to keep.

My personal computer, i build this myself few months ago( more than 6 month)
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
AMD FD8350FRHKBOX FX-8350
16gb 1600 ram
XFX FX-785A-CDFC AMD Radeon HD 7850 Double Dissipation Edition Video Card - 2GB GDDR5
My power supply is 750 watts.
1.5tb harddrive ( not a SSD )


THis is the computer i won

Intel i5 2380p cpu 3.10 ghz sandy bridge socket 1155lga
8gb DDR3 speed of the ram is unk
windows 7 ultimate
Geforce GTX 480
motherboard is Intel DZ68BC
120GB SSD
650 wats PSW
Also this computer i overclocked by ibuypower.

Not sure what else i can post here for you guys to help me decide. Any help will be much appreciated.

Please keep in mind that i love gaming, but this computer is mainly used for After effect renders, lots of video renderigns, livestreaming, and recording. Also i would sell the one that im not going to keep.

THanks in advance
 
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No I wouldn't sell your own to upgrade the ibuypower one. You're going to have to invest a lot of money into the ibuypower to make it relatively decent. The motherboard is low quality, the gpu is out-dated, and ibuypower typically uses low quality psu. You're going to have to upgrade a lot of things to make it just as good your computer right now. It's not worth it.
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I would say your computer is better for gaming.
-Even though the processor is an i5, it is a locked processor. An overclocked FX-8350 can perform just as well as that i5 at stock speeds. And with your high end motherboard, you should be able to reach a good overclock with a decent cpu cooler.
-The 7850 is much stronger than the GTX 480. The GTX 480 is too old to be able to play modern games at decent settings with good fps.

Also, the 8 cores of the FX-8350 will perform better than the 4 cores of the i5 in rendering.
 
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realchaos

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Your current pc with the FX-8350.
If you open up your build, you could see the brand/model on the side of the psu. If you don't see one, I would recommend you replace it ASAP because the only psus without a brand/model on it are the generic low quality psus.
 
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stalkingdatoast

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what do you think about maybe selling my computer and with the money upgrading the one i won? the computer case for the ibuypower is bigger and much better in my opinion. the motherboard in the ibuipower supports 1155lga sucket , so i could buy a new cpu for it and also upgrade the gpu to a better one , and i could do this with the money i would get from selling my computer? any thoughs?
 
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No I wouldn't sell your own to upgrade the ibuypower one. You're going to have to invest a lot of money into the ibuypower to make it relatively decent. The motherboard is low quality, the gpu is out-dated, and ibuypower typically uses low quality psu. You're going to have to upgrade a lot of things to make it just as good your computer right now. It's not worth it.
 
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