It's that time for me to upgrade my rig. But as always, I have a hard time going over the eternal question : "would the performance improvement be worth the price paid?"
I have an AMD Phenom II x6 1090t, that served me well for the last 4 years, with 8gb of DDR3-1333 and a Radeon HD 7850 2GB. All of this still serves me well, in fact, but I mainly want something to be a little bit more future proof for another 4 years or so, on the CPU front.
My dilema is that I'm torn between switching sides (Intel) or staying with AMD and getting an FX8350. I don't have tons of cash, but if I switch to Intel, I would probably get something like an i5-4460, as it's cheap enough for me, and would have enough cash for a middle-of-the-road mobo, and maybe (not sure yet) 16gb of DDR3-1600 to go with it. Going down the Intel road would cost me about $375, more or less. With 16Gb or RAM thrown in, let's say about $535. (Canadian $)
But, if I go the FX8350 road (my current mobo supports it), not only I can get it for a little less than the i5-4460, I wouldn't have to change the mobo, and that would leave me with maybe a couple bucks to spend on a new gfx card. Just upgrading the CPU would cost me about $200.
Looking at various benchmark, the FX8350 seems very competitive with the i5-4460, especially in multi-threaded tasks. I mainly do gaphic design and creative stuff (video, web, print) as part of my job, and also love to game. I don't need more than 1080p though. But I know the i5 seems to run a bit better for gaming. And is requiring less wattage than the FX8350 or my current CPU.
So... is forking for the intel CPU+mobo worth it? Or would spending less for an FX8350 would be a better investment? I tend to favor switching to intel (as I would recycle my older CPU and mobo in an older case I have lying around and build a rig for my kids), but the idea of spending less by staying with AMD and getting a new GFX card instead is also tempting...
What do you guys think?
I have an AMD Phenom II x6 1090t, that served me well for the last 4 years, with 8gb of DDR3-1333 and a Radeon HD 7850 2GB. All of this still serves me well, in fact, but I mainly want something to be a little bit more future proof for another 4 years or so, on the CPU front.
My dilema is that I'm torn between switching sides (Intel) or staying with AMD and getting an FX8350. I don't have tons of cash, but if I switch to Intel, I would probably get something like an i5-4460, as it's cheap enough for me, and would have enough cash for a middle-of-the-road mobo, and maybe (not sure yet) 16gb of DDR3-1600 to go with it. Going down the Intel road would cost me about $375, more or less. With 16Gb or RAM thrown in, let's say about $535. (Canadian $)
But, if I go the FX8350 road (my current mobo supports it), not only I can get it for a little less than the i5-4460, I wouldn't have to change the mobo, and that would leave me with maybe a couple bucks to spend on a new gfx card. Just upgrading the CPU would cost me about $200.
Looking at various benchmark, the FX8350 seems very competitive with the i5-4460, especially in multi-threaded tasks. I mainly do gaphic design and creative stuff (video, web, print) as part of my job, and also love to game. I don't need more than 1080p though. But I know the i5 seems to run a bit better for gaming. And is requiring less wattage than the FX8350 or my current CPU.
So... is forking for the intel CPU+mobo worth it? Or would spending less for an FX8350 would be a better investment? I tend to favor switching to intel (as I would recycle my older CPU and mobo in an older case I have lying around and build a rig for my kids), but the idea of spending less by staying with AMD and getting a new GFX card instead is also tempting...
What do you guys think?
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