Intel i7 4770k or Amd fx 8350?

Intel i7 4770k or AMD FX 8350?

 

4770K.

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=4770k+vs+fx+8350#

 

If you can afford it, always go Intel.

 

Intel 4770k they are good cpus

 

4770k all the way.

 

Unless your doing something that can utilize the Hyper Threading, I'd go with a i5 4670K. Same performance in games, less price, and you can put your money in what really matters, your graphics card, or maybe even an SSD.

 

to kind of go along with that, the 8350 is a slightly overclocked version of the 8320. the 8320 is cheaper and can be overclocked to get the same performance (as an 8350) anyway. My 8320 idles at 1.6 but is overclocked to go to ~4.5 GHz when under load.
The Intel chips are better for gaming, however Tek Syndicate actually found the 8350 to be better when streaming your games.
If you have the money I guess go for the intels, but I think AMD will be satisfactory for most people

 

implying cpu doesn't matter...

 

That is only because of the implementation of AMD's multithreading. Not faster in games. Even the 4670k beats it.

 

In pretty much any game other than Drive, the GPU matters more. You'd get more performance in 99.9% of games with an i5-4670k and a GTX 780Ti than you would with an i7-4770k and a GTX 770.

Unless the only game you're going to play is Drive, the i5 is the better buy.

It's also dependent on the resolution you play at. The higher the resolution, the more graphical power you'll need.

 

you would get equal performance actually (in games that are not drive anyway) it is literally impossible for the i5-4670K to get more performance then the i7-4770K (within reason of course, obviously if you use the igpu on the i7, and some high end gpu like a gtx 780 on the i5 then of course the i5 will get more performance then)

 

What I'm saying is that you would get better performance with an i5-4670k/GTX780Ti because of the more powerful graphics card. The higher the resolution you play on, the more you need to rely on GPU power rather than CPU power. The only time you'd have a noticeably higher framerate between the i5/i7 would be a game like Drive where you need the extra CPU power for all the physics calculations.

To OP: Basically only buy the i7-4770k if you're only going to play Drive and encode videos in Adobe Premiere Pro, otherwise your money is better spent on getting a more powerful graphics card. Especially so if you play at 1920x1080 or higher.

 

please do not take advice on computer hardware from this forum. go to a specialized forum where you will get (hopefully unbiased) answers from people who deal with hardware daily as a career.

 

Well seeing as I deal with tech daily as my job, I'd say I'm pretty qualified. Own my own computer business and have been working on computers since I was 6.

Some of the things people have suggested for tech advice on this forum is laughably bad.

http://forums.guru3d.com/ one of the best places you can go for tech help.

 

Neither- If you need to ask a forum, then you dont really have the knowledge to have a high end PC like that.

 

That's about the most idiotic thing I've ever heard.

What you're saying is, you're only allowed to have a high end PC if you don't ask the opinion of others. Maybe OP isn't a computer expert and wants to hear why it's better to get one item over another item.

Not everyone who builds a computer knows about L2/L3 cache, hyper threading, turbo frequencies and TDP. And not everyone who builds a PC needs to know about cpu cache or hyper threading.

 

Actually, in some programs the hyper threaded cores "stall" and give the i5 the edge. Also (in some extremely limited situations) the i7 die consumes more power this giving the i5 the overclocking edge. Just nitpicking.

About the forum thing. I'm a pretty experienced PC guy. I've been doing it for ~3 years, can build my own (and have), feel comfortable with water cooling and overclocking, have gotten multiple "expert" badges in 3-4 topics at TH, and have managed a pretty good reputation at anandtech too. But even though I'm sure I could build myself ~20 different computers without a problem I always run the build by a forum first. Maybe not beamng only (no offense guys) but I always want a second opinion.

 

Exactly, there is absolutely no harm in getting other opinions before purchasing all the parts and building a computer. Sometimes someone might know of a better alternative for a part that will get you more performance for the same or less amount of money.

 

I wouldn't exactly say that, AMD processors have their place in the market.
However, the 4770k and the 8350 isn't exactly a fair comparison. The 4770k would be much better, and it costs much more.