1100T vs FX-8350

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Deadfire19

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Well they are going for almost the same price on eBay now. I wonder if I should upgrade.

I'm fixing up my hardware in my sig right now. If its not there yet.

Many thanks!
 
I havent managed to find where you change your sig but these are my components.

CPU: AMD Phenom II x6 1100T @ 3.3Ghz (stock)
MOBO: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
GPU: XFX 3GB 7950 Double-D @ 950MHz, 1375MHz, Stock Voltage
SSD 1: 240GB Corsair Neutron GTX
SSD 2: 120GB Corsair Force 3
HDD 1: 300GB 10,000 RPM WD Velociraptor
HDD 2: 1.5TB 7,200 RPM Seagate
HDD 3: 3TB 7,200 RPM Seagate
ODD 1: LG Blu-Ray
Memory 1: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 2000 MHz @ 1600
Memory 2: 1x2GB OCZ Gold Memory 1600 MHz @ 1600
Memory 3: 1x2GB Kington Hyper-X 1333 MHz memory @ 1600
Heatsink/Fan: Custom Water Cooling Loop w/ 5 rad slots (CPU Cooling only atm)
Chassis: NZXT Switch 810

I have about £250 to spend. I really would like to retain as much of it as I can. I am not so glad going from a near perfect AMD system to an Intel system but would love to be given reasons why I should. I could probably ship in the CPU america and clench a good price during Black Friday sales.

I will try to do some research but I really need to know by Friday if I am to buy the CPU.

Thanks!
 
I'd keep what you have tbh...
No point in upgrading to the 8350 - and you won't really see any performance increase at all.

Save up for a 3570k and Z77 motherboard or Haswell next year.
 
jamesriley94 said:
I'd keep what you have tbh...
No point in upgrading to the 8350 - and you won't really see any performance increase at all.

Save up for a 3570k and Z77 motherboard or Haswell next year.
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If I manage to get a cheap import from the states I might go for the 3570 as everyone is recommending it.

I want to keep the package at under £250 though.

EDIT: I can get the 3570K for £135 w/o considering the Black Friday sales. Is there any higher up CPU I could consider if I saw it go on sale?
 
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The 8350 isn't much of an improvement at all and games want per core performance not more cores anyway.

Either stick with what you have if you can manage with it (or invest in a cooler and overclock it!). You can get an i5 platform for £250. The 3570K and a Gigabyte D3H motherboard is about that.

The 3770K isn't going to be as cheap as a 3570K even on sale - but neither do you need the only thing it adds (hyper-threading).
 
This thread has taken quite a turn. I am now almost certainly going to buy the 3570k (hopefully sub £100) the board, however, is a different matter. I cannot import such a big item. Any recommendations? I have heard good things about ASRock.
 
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Deadfire19 said:
This thread has taken quite a turn. I am now almost certainly going to buy the 3570k (hopefully sub £100) the board, however, is a different matter. I cannot import such a big item. Any recommendations? I have heard good things about ASRock.
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Stick with one of the main 3 (Asus, Gigabyte and MSI)

MSI for the Z77 platform though.

Look at the Z77-G45 - or if you're willing to spend a little more, the GD55 or GD65 and mPower are great boards too.
 
jamesriley94 said:
Stick with one of the main 3 (Asus, Gigabyte and MSI)

MSI for the Z77 platform though.

Look at the Z77-G45 - or if you're willing to spend a little more, the GD55 or GD65 and mPower are great boards too.
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(I wrote this before I saw this reply - Was originally an EDIT)

I think I love the Asrock Z77 Extreme6. It has all the features I need and more, 8 Sata ports really made my love it. This would just about cover my max price I wish to spend.

Clickly to Specs

I would get about £200 back from my Cpu and Mobo. So it would be a £50 which seems like a pretty good deal. Luckily my cpu waterblock supports both intel and amd sockets so I can go ahead and upgrade.



In reply to your post.

Any recommendations directly? I would be ordering this from a UK site and don't want anything over £150ish. (That price being the price I would heavily consider spending money on).

EDIT: Someone may want to change the thread title, it has really gone off topic.
 
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MPower! All day long and twice on Sunday. I'm eventually jumping ship to Intel and this is likely the board I'll be using.

I know you've already decided but just for the heck of it and anybody that reads this in the future, I went from a 1090 to my 8150 and it was a DOWNGRADE! My 1090 at 4 GHz beat the 8150 in pretty much everything until I got it to 4.4. So the Bulldozers need 400 MHz to outperform a X6 and the 8320 are between 5-15% faster than Bulldozer so it would be am upgrade but only if you're gonna overclock it's nads off and even then it wont be a big enough upgrade to justify the price. So you're doing the right thing going to Intel.

For anybody else thinking this same thing, the FX processors are better than the X6 but not by much and only when overclocked pretty heavily.
 
Deadfire19 said:
This thread has taken quite a turn. I am now almost certainly going to buy the 3570k (hopefully sub £100) the board, however, is a different matter. I cannot import such a big item. Any recommendations? I have heard good things about ASRock.
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or 2500k and get a better mobo
 
You should be able to get 4.4GHz and more with a MSI Z77A G45, and that's kind on your wallet.
Can't promise anything, as the silicone lottery is what matters most, but the Z77A range, from the G45 and up, are some of the best Z77 boards around.
 
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