Intel i5 4460 vs AMD FX-9590

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I know there is a difference in price, but I will be able to balance my budget.
I will be mostly watching and streaming videos and mostly gaming. Which should I chose?:??:
 
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The i5/ 9590 and motherboards are about the same in in total price. You can get decent OC speed from a 4670K with noctua NH14 The 9590 can do it with one also if the room is cold enough. You need water with the 9590. I am a 9590 using now. The core is running with 0.863 volts and 1390 Mhz most of the time. It does not run at 5.0 Ghz all the time. The radiator is out side the box and the sensor says it is running at 27C for what that is worth. The motherboard says 31C that is probably more accurate. The hard drive says 22C which close to the actual room temp. I picked the 9590 because it does 5.0 ghz right out of the box. The 4670/90K can get up to the 9590 in real world computations and exceed it. However you got to play around with it...
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Dark Lord of Tech

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Go Intel , 9590's cost quite a bit to run.

Your choices for the 9000 series:

Asrock 970 Performance
ASRock 990FX Extreme9
ASRock 990FX Extreme6
Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 R4.0\5.0
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7
MSI 990FXA-GD80V2

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Warning: This power draw of this CPU is almost twice that of the average CPU. Due to this, AMD recommends using at minimum a 1000W power supply. For cooling, AMD recommends using either either closed loop liquid cooling or full system liquid cooling.
 
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I have no idea why AMD released the 9590. It uses an insane amount of energy to use and requires a liquid cooler. Plus, the i5 still wins at gaming 9 times out of 10 for the same reasons mentioned in the other numerous AMD vs Intel threads.

The only people I see buying an 9590 are the people who absolutely refuse to go Intel, at whatever costs (literally).

AMD needs to go back to the drawing boards and come out with a chip that actually compares to Intel - something that truly creates competition. With real competition, Intel might see a drop in sales, which might lead them to drop their prices. They could charge whatever they want right now because true gamers that want the best performance will pay for it because there isn't an alternative for high-level gaming.

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Why waste money on a 9590 which is just a higher binned and factory overclocked 8350/8320. At the 9590s price point, the i7 4790k is the only option. The fx uses to much power which makes more heat and offers much weaker single core performance, and weaker multi-core performance compared to a 4790k.
 
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...If you're going to do lots of streaming, video editing/rendering, etc then go for FX-9590
Click to expand...

There is really no reason for the FX-9590, other than to get your freak on ...

By that I mean those "special" engineered cooling solutions, from outside Rads during the winter ... or one guy at XS ran his loop through a 55-gallon barrel of snow :lol:

The -9590 will take a nice under-volt, though, and drop 70-80 watts. That will get you 4.7GHz or so at 1.36v --- but at load you are still pulling 270-280 watts total system.

Another guy over at XS put a huge radiator in his unheated garage during the winter and piped through the wall to get to it. I bet his wife loved that ...

 
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The best option would be to get i5 4690K since it's the same price as FX-9590. Plus since FX-9590 is very mobo limited and mobos for it are on the expensive side (as far as AMD mobos) it'd actually cheaper to get an i5 4690K + Z97 mobo.

 
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The i5/ 9590 and motherboards are about the same in in total price. You can get decent OC speed from a 4670K with noctua NH14 The 9590 can do it with one also if the room is cold enough. You need water with the 9590. I am a 9590 using now. The core is running with 0.863 volts and 1390 Mhz most of the time. It does not run at 5.0 Ghz all the time. The radiator is out side the box and the sensor says it is running at 27C for what that is worth. The motherboard says 31C that is probably more accurate. The hard drive says 22C which close to the actual room temp. I picked the 9590 because it does 5.0 ghz right out of the box. The 4670/90K can get up to the 9590 in real world computations and exceed it. However you got to play around with it to get it there. The Asrock OC z97 OC board cost is a little more than the Extreme9 990fx I am using. The big difference is in the memory. The intel solution can use higher speed ram, and move the data around at a higher speed than 9590 can. It also cost more 3400 max (intel) vs 2400(amd) max. BTW I plugger in the memory recommended off the asrock memory list for 2400 ram and it just went there. Take all the fun out of fiddling around for higher speeds. The 4690K does make up for it's slower clock speed speed. I guess the main + to having a 9590 system is you can loop a bench mark program and heat the room when you are waitng for the landlord to turn the heat on. If I had to do it all over again I would go with intel. Putting the 9590 under water with custom loop was a pain in the ass. Yeah I know go with a AIO water cooler, but found out the hard way if it ain't all copper and you push the CPU (8350) to the max too often it will fail prematurely, Besides a 4690K will do what needs to be done as good as or better on air than 9590 on water. Yep spending $150 more for CPU, Mobo & memory and less for cooling would yielded a higher performance machine for about the same total price.
 
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