Replacing my Son's dieng Low End Gaming PC (from AMD to Intel)

[libido]

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pwd rasad boss, sacrifice nako ang SSD option, ang 1st choice man gyd nako ang i5 para hapsay ang pahuna-huna, na kay murag ganahan man sad ko naa SSD sa 25k nga budget, mao down to i3..nyahahaha..

[werty]

much better mag i5 kaysa ssd if mao na boss.

[libido]

ahakz na boss werty, maka takod gyd mo oi, nyahahahahaha.. pag maka kita ko diri SSD anhi nlang ko palit, hatagan diay ko bonus sa boss nako, pa lu-oi lu-oi mode ba aron ingnon walay money hehehehe..

[pak88]

Kinahanlan ba gyud kaha quadcore para ma future proof ang PC? I have heard of this argument before when I bought my e7500 instead of a quadcore around five years ago and heard it again when I replaced it with an i3. Kung casual gaming lang and office work more than satisfying man ang i3. Ok pa man gani ang e7500 na gigamit nako reserve PC except murag nagkabuang na ang motherboard nya due to siguro age.

[keropi]

All conditions aside, choosing a processor for gaming rigs is not really a matter going for whichever is fastest. If we have to make the most out of a certain budget (maximized) the best processor is one that is well balanced with the video card. As such, the best video card is one that is best balanced with the monitor. If there is a one-word rule for building gaming rigs, it would have to be BALANCE.

In my presumption, choosing an i5 over an i3 would be justified if imo video card is a gtx760/HD7950 and above or an sli/xf config. Other than that, the other 2 cores are just excess baggage (Intel ta ha). If you factor in futureproofing + choices on AMD side, that is a different story.

If games pud ang hisgotan, im sure nobody with a gtx650 will be playing Crysis 3 on Very High with 4xmsaa on 1080p. Any heavy game with less than 4xMsaa - PhysX - DOF/FOV on out-of-this-world setting - high post-processing is far from bringing the i3 to its knees.

Bottomline is, the i3 is still good as a gaming platform for your son.
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On the other side of the fence, naay daghan 4-core choices @ i3 price sa AMD camp

[lloyd_joy]

^ correct... nice ang FX series sa AMD for "gaming"... if single thread apps, nothing beats intel's offering kay kusog ang IPC nila (fact ni sya)... pero, kun ang apps mo utilize ug more than 2 physical cores, mas pas2x gamay ang offerings sa AMD if i-compare sa intel offerings w/ 2 cores & w/ or w/o hyperthreading... if ang quad na sa intel ang i-compare sa multi-core CPUs sa AMD, we'll we know who's faster... it's still, the Big Blue... anyway, nice kaayo ang FX offerings sa AMD for its "price to performance" ratio... barato lang man sila...

for the GPU and CPU, ok gyud na i-pair sila para sili masayang ang gi invest na amount for the gaming rig... as well as ang monitor resolution na gamiton...

[libido]

mao na ang akong ganahan sa AMD, mao nang ni stick gyd ko aning akong lappy nga MSI (chip lappy but it ROCKS), with APU inside, kay happy naman ko sa iyang performance.

pero ganahan sad ko nga Intel build sa akong Anak, pasok man sad gyd sa budget kung MObo + i3 + 650Ti+decent memory (1600)+PSU. murag overkill raman sad kaau sa iyang age karon nga naka i5, taas pa kaau ang latason adto, 12 years old pa baya, mo last long pani nga build until mo abot sya ug 4th year h.S ug kana barato nalang ang mga i5 IB (mo migrate naman mo sa Haswell huwaton kuna sa B&S), then cguro ako naa nakoi Haswell ana nga build kay mo barato nasad na tungod sa mga new sets of CPU..hehehehe

salamat kaau sa inyong mga inputs dako kaau katabang gyd.

[lloyd_joy]

^ bro,

GTX 650 Ti "Boost" ang pili-a... ang nang "Non-boost"... gamay ra sila'g price difference but sa performance, dako2x...

[libido]

naa sa PCX bro 650ti - SC EVGA, 7k+ 1gb then ang Asus same specs, 8k+.

Boost you mean Super clock dba?

[senpai91]

^ correct... nice ang FX series sa AMD for "gaming"... if single thread apps, nothing beats intel's offering kay kusog ang IPC nila (fact ni sya)... pero, kun ang apps mo utilize ug more than 2 physical cores, mas pas2x gamay ang offerings sa AMD if i-compare sa intel offerings w/ 2 cores & w/ or w/o hyperthreading... if ang quad na sa intel ang i-compare sa multi-core CPUs sa AMD, we'll we know who's faster... it's still, the Big Blue... anyway, nice kaayo ang FX offerings sa AMD for its "price to performance" ratio... barato lang man sila...

for the GPU and CPU, ok gyud na i-pair sila para sili masayang ang gi invest na amount for the gaming rig... as well as ang monitor resolution na gamiton...

for the price of intel's i5 you get amd's octa.

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naa sa PCX bro 650ti - SC EVGA, 7k+ 1gb then ang Asus same specs, 8k+.

Boost you mean Super clock dba?

no...SC is EVGA exclusive...kung "boost" gani maka butang na sya GTX 650 ti Boost, not GTX 650 ti only.