- Oct 26, 2012
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I've always read and heard Intel was a little better for gaming than AMD. But I didn't think it was a big deal.....
I used to have a 3570k@4.5Ghz and a 660Ti at stock clocks. And in the game "World of Tanks"(a very popular game, 10's of millions play it), at MAX settings, I used to get 120FPS. Which is great. But I recently got my nephew an FX8350 because I wanted to go a little cheaper. I gave him my 660Ti card, and I got me a GTX780. I overclocked his 8350 to 4.5Ghz. Now, when I play the game "World of Tanks" on his PC, I can't come close to running it at MAX. I have to use the Medium settings, and even then I only get 50-60FPS. That's half the FPS, at half the settings. I only get 30FPS on MAX settings and it's unplayable. We're both gaming at 1920x1080p BTW.
This game does only use 2 cores, but I didn't think the difference would be that HUGE. Do you guys know how many older games, and games that aren't "Blockbuster" games use 4 or less cores? A LOT!
I'm starting to think I should have just got him an i3 4330 and saved money plus got twice as good of performance, it would have been so much better for him.
I even got him a 140$ Gigabyte UD3H overclocking motherboard, 16GB of G. Skill 2133Mhz RAM(because I heard AMD's like higher Mhz RAM), and a Kingston HyperX SSD. I guess AMD just really sucks at this. At least he'll be ok if he ever needs to rip DVDs or something lol. I assume, hopefully.
I always hear from AMD guys that it makes little difference in gaming, and that you won't notice the difference. They even tell you that AMD is better in some games. That's FAR from true. And most people really believe this crap. I actually trusted this info to get him the FX8350. And as it turns out, they were completely wrong. Even overclocked to 4.5Ghz it struggles.
In my super pi benchmark my 3570k does the 1m bench in less than 8 seconds, the 8350 takes almost 20 seconds. I have yet to find a game that the 8350 even ties the 3570k in. I've tried Metro LL, Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Borderlands 2, BF3, BF4, Mass Effect 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Modern Warfare 2, Trine 2, And Batman Arkham Origins. And the closest the 8350 came was in BF4, but it was still 5FPS off. Most of the time theres a 15FPS difference. And in MMO's it's over 2x as slow.
What do you guys think? Keep in mind they were both overclocked to 4.5Ghz, they were NOT at stock settings.
I used to have a 3570k@4.5Ghz and a 660Ti at stock clocks. And in the game "World of Tanks"(a very popular game, 10's of millions play it), at MAX settings, I used to get 120FPS. Which is great. But I recently got my nephew an FX8350 because I wanted to go a little cheaper. I gave him my 660Ti card, and I got me a GTX780. I overclocked his 8350 to 4.5Ghz. Now, when I play the game "World of Tanks" on his PC, I can't come close to running it at MAX. I have to use the Medium settings, and even then I only get 50-60FPS. That's half the FPS, at half the settings. I only get 30FPS on MAX settings and it's unplayable. We're both gaming at 1920x1080p BTW.
This game does only use 2 cores, but I didn't think the difference would be that HUGE. Do you guys know how many older games, and games that aren't "Blockbuster" games use 4 or less cores? A LOT!
I'm starting to think I should have just got him an i3 4330 and saved money plus got twice as good of performance, it would have been so much better for him.
I even got him a 140$ Gigabyte UD3H overclocking motherboard, 16GB of G. Skill 2133Mhz RAM(because I heard AMD's like higher Mhz RAM), and a Kingston HyperX SSD. I guess AMD just really sucks at this. At least he'll be ok if he ever needs to rip DVDs or something lol. I assume, hopefully.
I always hear from AMD guys that it makes little difference in gaming, and that you won't notice the difference. They even tell you that AMD is better in some games. That's FAR from true. And most people really believe this crap. I actually trusted this info to get him the FX8350. And as it turns out, they were completely wrong. Even overclocked to 4.5Ghz it struggles.
In my super pi benchmark my 3570k does the 1m bench in less than 8 seconds, the 8350 takes almost 20 seconds. I have yet to find a game that the 8350 even ties the 3570k in. I've tried Metro LL, Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Borderlands 2, BF3, BF4, Mass Effect 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Modern Warfare 2, Trine 2, And Batman Arkham Origins. And the closest the 8350 came was in BF4, but it was still 5FPS off. Most of the time theres a 15FPS difference. And in MMO's it's over 2x as slow.
What do you guys think? Keep in mind they were both overclocked to 4.5Ghz, they were NOT at stock settings.
it really is worth the extra money. It will also have a longer shelf life and you wont need to upgrade as quickly
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