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tombomb101

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I am upgrading my PC and would like to see if anyone could tell me what kind of performance I could be seeing out of this :) :

Thermaltake Chaser Series A31 Case

CORSAIR CX600 600W Power Supply

Asus M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard

AMD FX-8350 CPU

Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB Video Card

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) Ram

Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive

Samsung 840 Evo 120gb SSD

Corsair h50 CPU cooler

The new Parts I am getting are the CPU,Motherboard,Case and SSD. All costing around $460. If anyone has any suggestions on what I should get that would better benefit me, try and keep it $460 or under. Also this computer is gonna be used for gaming and some other stuff for school and I am NOT looking to overclock (sounds weird I know haha.) Well if anyone could help me it would mean a lot, thanks :D.
 
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CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($209.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus H81M-A Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($82.95 @ Amazon)
Case: Thermaltake Chaser A31 ATX Mid Tower Case ($69.08 @ Mwave)
Total: $417.01
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

if you're going for a brand new CPU and motherboard combo, why not try an Intel combination? Especially since you're not looking to overclock, which is honestly the point of getting an AMD FX chip.

i5's are still...
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($209.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus H81M-A Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($54.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($82.95 @ Amazon)
Case: Thermaltake Chaser A31 ATX Mid Tower Case ($69.08 @ Mwave)
Total: $417.01
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

if you're going for a brand new CPU and motherboard combo, why not try an Intel combination? Especially since you're not looking to overclock, which is honestly the point of getting an AMD FX chip.

i5's are still cream of the crop for gaming because of their hefty single core power, it definitely won't lose to a FX 8350 stock at pretty much anything

And to Bandbuscus25 above, a Radeon HD 7950 is equivalent to a 760, possibly a bit higher since the 7950s competed with GTX 670s pretty well
 
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depends on the game really, but the 7950 is very close to 760.
 
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tombomb101

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What FPS will I be looking at with the Intel cpu rather than the AMD cpu at stock?
 
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it'll depend on the game, for more modern games the difference is negligible, but for slightly older games that run mainly on single thread processes like Skyrim you'll have a decent 10 ish % increase I'd imagine, but for the most part the CPU is pretty unimportant in games, except for MMOs but those are another beast altogether.

it's just another alternative :) you can't really go wrong here though, both CPUs are strong
 
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tombomb101

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So with the setup I'm going with, I should be getting good performance, like running games on ultra? :D
 
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