FX-8350 switch to Intel?

[sumamed]

Hello guys from a long time lurker, i have dilema that made me register and ask for advice.

My current system is fx 8350 at some 4,5 Ghz, 8gb crappy ram, 850w corsair ax ,780ti with some ssds and some hdds.

I feel it is time to switch to intel, i am going to buy cpu, mobo, cpu air cooler and some decent 16GB RAM.
What do you recommend?

I'ts gonna be strictly gaming pc, so which way to go? Is 4790K worth it over 4690k? where i live its 140$ more..

 

[Silas Woodruff]

Might as well wait for Skylake to launch, otherwise I think your PC is fine now.

 

[stevorob]

For gaming, a 4690k would be more than enough.

What kind of budget do you have to put together the upgrade?

 

[BarbaricSoul]

Personally, I would keep the 8350. I don't think you would see much benefit going to Intel from a 8350 for gaming. If I was to upgrade from a 8350 based system, it would be to socket 2011-3. Socket 1150 is a waste of money if you already have a 8350 based system.

 

[rooivalk]

4790k will be marginally faster especially in HyperThreading supported games (which is seldom). If you don't mind the money, it's a better choice, otherwise just buy 4690k.

Isn't Skylake launch date in H2 2015? which means max 11 months from now on, quite a long time for me.
I also believe Skylake won't be a quantum leap in performance since AMD CPU (still) isn't threatening for Intel nowadays.

EDIT: I'm not very sure, but as far as I know old 2500k (stock) is ~15-20% better in some games against fx-8350 (stock). 4690k surely will be better.

 

[64K]

I would wait for Skylake to launch. Yeah, it should be 3rd or 4th quarter this year.

 

[Dent1]

Hello guys from a long time lurker, i have dilema that made me register and ask for advice.

My current system is fx 8350 at some 4,5 Ghz, 8gb crappy ram, 850w corsair ax ,780ti with some ssds and some hdds.

I feel it is time to switch to intel, i am going to buy cpu, mobo, cpu air cooler and some decent 16GB RAM.
What do you recommend?

I'ts gonna be strictly gaming pc, so which way to go? Is 4790K worth it over 4690k? where i live its 140$ more..

What cant a FX 8350 @ 4.5GHz play?

To my knowledge there isn't a single game it cant destroy. If you can't name a single game or activity your CPU cannot competently handle then save your money. Don't just spend money and jump ship because its cool.

 

[sumamed]

I have 1000 $ for upgrade.

Skylake wait seems a bit too long for me, but if it is worth the wait i could wait....

8350 is okish, nothing stellar, except for total war Rome 2 that is barely playable, and that is my favorite game now. I play some WOT and few usual shooters, and its more or less smooth, but rtw 2 is just torture..

 

[BarbaricSoul]

you in the States?

 

[rtwjunkie]

I have 1000 $ for upgrade.

Skylake wait seems a bit too long for me, but if it is worth the wait i could wait....

8350 is okish, nothing stellar, except for total war Rome 2 that is barely playable, and that is my favorite game now. I play some WOT and few usual shooters, and its more or less smooth, but rtw 2 is just torture..

There is not a intel cpu around from socket 1155 to 1150 that Rome 2 doesn't torture. It's very cpu-intensive. You're at 4.5Ghz already. You'd have to do 6.0Ghz to make a real dent in it's single-core overload.

Save your money, no need to jump ship if everything else plays fine.

 

[XSI]

maybe you can lower some settings in RTW 2, which will improve your experience for more fps.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

still think it's a waste of money upgrading from an 8350 for gaming, but here you go- http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LwGtsY

 

[xfia]

its not rare for games to use hyperthreading and scale beyond 4 cores/threads anymore.. every newer aaa game does and will continue to.

you can say a game is cpu intensive and leave it there but really it goes beyond that and if it can go as far as saying a game will torture a cpu with the highest ipc per core on the market then it has crap optimization.

 

[xfia]

still think it's a waste of money upgrading from an 8350 for gaming, but here you go- http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LwGtsY

if a upgrade is really in order then a cpu with 12 threads over a higher clock with 8 threads makes no since.. 4790k fastest stock gaming cpu for less money

 

[rtwjunkie]

then it has crap optimization.

Bingo! yes, you win the prize, because the Total War games have ALWAYS had crap optimization that has THOUSANDS upon thousands of calculations per second going through one thread. Think of a superhighway with 20 million cars trying to get on that one highway at the same point. imagine the backup.

That's why I told the OP that an upgrade is pointless if he thinks he is going to fix that going to Intel.

 

[GhostRyder]

Hello guys from a long time lurker, i have dilema that made me register and ask for advice.

My current system is fx 8350 at some 4,5 Ghz, 8gb crappy ram, 850w corsair ax ,780ti with some ssds and some hdds.

I feel it is time to switch to intel, i am going to buy cpu, mobo, cpu air cooler and some decent 16GB RAM.
What do you recommend?

I'ts gonna be strictly gaming pc, so which way to go? Is 4790K worth it over 4690k? where i live its 140$ more..

I have 1000 $ for upgrade.

Skylake wait seems a bit too long for me, but if it is worth the wait i could wait....

8350 is okish, nothing stellar, except for total war Rome 2 that is barely playable, and that is my favorite game now. I play some WOT and few usual shooters, and its more or less smooth, but rtw 2 is just torture..

Well as others have stated the upgrade may not be to worthwhile for you mostly because the differences would not be night and day. When it comes to gaming single threaded performance is key and Intel does have that area but the truth is its not like the 8350 struggles to maintain keeping good frame rate. I had an FX 9590 and 8350 both overclock to 4.8-5.1 respectively and honestly the gaming experience was very good with my multi-card setup. With the i7 5930K which is the 6 core 12 thread CPU overclocked to 4.5ghz I can say I see some differences but nothing night and day and most of the differences are in the very intensive games. Rome II is CPU intensive but it struggles all machines and honestly even updating to an i5/i7 overclocked to 4.5ghz its not going to run amazingly well as its not a very well optimized game and very CPU intensive. You might gain a few FPS average going to one but I do not think its going to be worthwhile for you in the end.

That being said, if your mind is made up I will give you a suggestion on parts:

i5 4690K
MSI Gaming 5 Z97
DDR3 2133 8gb Gskill

Should at least get you started since I would assume the rest your willing to use again (Maybe a cooler as well depending). The problem really is going to be I do not see this making a huge difference in your gaming performance. Also for the record the reason I do not suggest the i7 on the Z platform is because the Hyperthreading is not really helpful to games. Very few really try to use more than 4 threads and when they do Hyperthreading can cause issues and sometimes just make no difference at all or harm the performance (Like BF4).

Just my opinion and hope it helps.

 

[sumamed]

I'm in Croatia, microscopic European country. That build BarbaricSoul compiled would cost me roughly 100-150$ more here, but that won't be a problem if it will be considerable improvement over current cpu..

So, general consensus is i should just soldier it out and wait about a year and get a Skylake?

 

[BarbaricSoul]

but that won't be a problem if it will be considerable improvement over current cpu..

Honestly, I don't think there will be a considerable improvement over an 8350 for quite some time, that's why I said I thought this was a waste of money when I posted that build. If you want to upgrade just for the purpose of upgrading, then by all means, upgrade the hell out of it. But don't expect any miraculous improvement in gaming performance.

 

[64K]

I'm in Croatia, microscopic European country. That build BarbaricSoul compiled would cost me roughly 100-150$ more here, but that won't be a problem if it will be considerable improvement over current cpu..

So, general consensus is i should just soldier it out and wait about a year and get a Skylake?

At the very least wait for Broadwell which will be a die shrink of Haswell so it should be more efficient and perhaps offer greater headroom for overclocking. From some of the comments I'm seeing about Rome 2 you probably should look at an i5 and a nice CPU cooler to overclock.

 

[sumamed]

Thank you all guys! I wasn't looking for upgrade just for sake of upgrading i was hoping to get improved performance mainly in Rome 2. Well i guess i'll wait and try to cut settings down a lot while waiting..

 

[commission3r]

Hello guys from a long time lurker, i have dilema that made me register and ask for advice.

My current system is fx 8350 at some 4,5 Ghz, 8gb crappy ram, 850w corsair ax ,780ti with some ssds and some hdds.

I feel it is time to switch to intel, i am going to buy cpu, mobo, cpu air cooler and some decent 16GB RAM.
What do you recommend?

I'ts gonna be strictly gaming pc, so which way to go? Is 4790K worth it over 4690k? where i live its 140$ more..

i went from crosshair fx8350 7950 xfire 8gb dominator gt 2133 to x79 rampage gene 3820
its not much of a difference even gaming
you will save some on electricity but it wont be the difference youre expecting from all the reviews out there

if you must spend your money then x79 or x99 would be a good change of scenery

 

[xfia]

may seem strange but you might actually see improvement by increasing settings

 

[peche]

you are Wasting $1000…. there is no other explanation,

what you exactly have? SSD/HDD, Cooler… Air o Watercooler, Case, monitor and also GPU ?
could be another thing to upgrade ofyou rig that can help you out to get a little or big deference / improvement on our gaming time, fill out your specs here: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/account/specs could be better…

 

[GhostRyder]

Thank you all guys! I wasn't looking for upgrade just for sake of upgrading i was hoping to get improved performance mainly in Rome 2. Well i guess i'll wait and try to cut settings down a lot while waiting..

Here is an example of what to expect with different CPU's, note that only severe overclocks really bump the game very much farther as even the 2600K at 4.8ghz offers a ~15% performance difference over the 8350 at 4.5ghz. That to me is not enough to warrant an upgrade in my book but maybe you will think otherwise so I thought I would show it though this is just 1 site and cannot be used as the end all for what to expect. Its more of a guideline just to see a rough estimate...

http://www.overclock.net/t/1426315/gamegpu-total-war-rome-ii-benchmarked

For the record, I play Rome 2 at 4K on 3 290X cards and an i7 5930K at 4.5ghz. I can say that even going down to 1080p on my other screen the games performance does not change really as its just the CPU holding it back and only dialing back some of the settings in the game really adjust the performance at all.

 

[Jborg]

Imo, coming from somebody with an 8350, I havent had one issue running any game except Crysis maxed out.

Im all for swapping to intel, I most likely will whenever I build another rig in the future.

I would personally buy a 1440p monitor with G-Sync and another 970 before I upgraded from an 8350 to Intel as of right now.

Just my thought.