i7 2700k or FX-8150? Please help me decide

[n-ster]

The 2500K is 205$ at newegg atm

 

[Benetanegia]

@benetagia
Pretty sure the only difference between 8120 & 8150 is stock clock speeds. Its like comparing the 2600k & 2700k.

Irrelevant and it's not just an arbitrary difference, not with thr problems they have with GF. 8120 parts are hrvested ones that cannot reach 8150 speeds. The huge difference in stock clock clearly suggests this. Besides in 90% of tests the 2500k is faster than the 8150, and is cheaper than 8120, so that's simply fail.

And like I said I bought my 2500k for 182 €, which is what the FX-6100 sells for now, so yeah it's massive fail no matter how you look at it. Of course Intel upping up the prices like mad is also fail, a fail where we loose, but that's capitalism when ther's no competition...

 

[nickbaldwin86]

2700K HANDS down

AMD is still a joke imo

 

[20mmrain]

Well it depends on what you do..... and what your budget looks like....and honestly how much brand loyalty you have?

1st off let me start by saying the i7 2600k will beat Bulldozer in just about anything and by about 10% to 30%.
But Bulldozer does offer some good things too. 1st. it is a 8 core CPU that is reasonably priced and backwards compatible with AMD's old sockets. 2nd. as time goes on and optimization's come out for the AMD CPU you might see it do a little better. 3rd There is no overclocking wall or cap on the AMD CPU unlike Intel on their 2500k or 2600k cpu's.
There are a ton of problems with Bulldozer though. For example it runs fairly warm from what I understand. Also take into account it is a very power hungry CPU .... that is not even overclocked.... once you throw overclocking into the mix.... that's a whole another story. Last let's still take into account that Intel beats it with even their 1st gen i7's and their 1st gen i5 competes with it. Shoot even AMD's own 1st gen 6 core Phenom II beats it in some benchmarks.

As far as Intel's offering goes.... I only can mention just a few bad things about it. First Intel likes to change sockets like Hookers change dates. While Ivy bridge will have the same socket... who is to say the gen after that will too? (I doubt it) Also Intel is more expensive right down to the motherboard it runs on. So if you are someone who doesn't care so much about the money factor.... then I wouldn't worry about it.
Good news is though.... PCIe 3.0 is already on the outlook for Intel, Ivy Bridges is right around the corner, SB beats Bulldozer with out issues, Overclocks like a bat out of Hell too!

I would say really if you don't have a good reason not to go with Intel....then go with them. But if you are a AMD fan boy or you already have a AMD compatible AM3+ socket motherboard then I would say that would be the only way to stay. JMO Who knows though Pile Driver might be better when that releases.

 

[BondExtreme]

Money isn't too much of any issue but just to give you all a general understanding of my spending cap, it's about $350 on the processor.

BF3 release date is 8 days away IIRC.

LGA 2011 is coming out Nov 15th apparently. If you wait anywhere near then, I'd suggest to just wait and see what 2011 offers

Now I have been looking into those a little... Mainly the 3820(not k). Now I do realize the price on that is going to be around $294ish but how would that cpu compare to the 2700k since the 2700k will most likely be over $300...? Would it be a step back if I go with the 3820(not k) rather than going with the 2700k?

 

[Super XP]

The AMD FX 8150 is not a bad CPU, they just need to fix the quirks so it can run better. That said, I would wait for the i7 2700k and see how much faster it is vs. the i7 2600k. You may be able to the the i7 2600k on a price drop or something.

 

[n-ster]

Money isn't too much of any issue but just to give you all a general understanding of my spending cap, it's about $350 on the processor.



Now I have been looking into those a little... Mainly the 3820(not k). Now I do realize the price on that is going to be around $294ish but how would that cpu compare to the 2700k since the 2700k will most likely be over $300...? Would it be a step back if I go with the 3820(not k) rather than going with the 2700k?

Good point. The non-K may be partially unlocked (like the i7 920, and that OCed well!), so OCing should still be possible. Stock, the 3820 will outperform the 2700K by a good margin. It all depends on how well the 3820 will OC though, and the 2700K will probably run cooler. The X79 motherboard will be more expensive though, and probably by a good margin. With that comes the benefit of the memory bandwidth (quad channel), more PCI-E lanes etc.

My guess is that the i7 3930K will come at around 499$ by January, the 3820 at 299$ and the 3960X at 999$ ~ 1199$. Hopefully a i7 39XX will come non-K and be able to OC OK, while having a lower price-tag in the future But a 38XX with K should be coming soon IMO.

In your situation, when X79 is out, check out how the 3820 OCs. If it does well, go for it. Note that The motherboard may be as high as 100$ more than lga 1155

 

[nt300]

The Intel platform costs more but will offer you better performance. Though for me the Bulldozer setup would be a better buy that would cost cheap and still offer you good performancr.