In my opinion, you will very rarely if ever, get a better PC from a retailer, V.S. building one yourself with better components. I recently purchased a new AMD 8 core processor, and have found no flaws whatsoever. In fact, it keeps up with, if not outperforms any i7 i have seen to date. I can encode a blue-ray movie in about 2 hours with my processor, where an i7 on my old system took me about 3. Its always good to have spare horsepower than to not have enough, in effect you are left with a substantially more future proof system. In conclusion, my advice is to do a little bit of research, and find what kind of budget you are on, and buy the barebone components and build it yourself, you will save alot of time in the process, and will also be keeping your hard earned money at the same time.

boostingbuddy wrote In my opinion, you will very rarely if ever, get a better PC from a retailer, V.S. building one yourself with better components. I recently purchased a new AMD 8 core processor, and have found no flaws whatsoever. In fact, it keeps up with, if not outperforms any i7 i have seen to date. I can encode a blue-ray movie in about 2 hours with my processor, where an i7 on my old system took me about 3. Its always good to have spare horsepower than to not have enough, in effect you are left with a substantially more future proof system. In conclusion, my advice is to do a little bit of research, and find what kind of budget you are on, and buy the barebone components and build it yourself, you will save alot of time in the process, and will also be keeping your hard earned money at the same time.

The new 8 core Piledriver CPU's from AMD do not out perform Ivy Bridge I5's like the 3570K, never-mind the 8 threaded 3770k. You cannot compare a newer CPU to an older generation CPU and expect the numbers to not totally be different - it's called innovation.

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boostingbuddy wrote In my opinion, you will very rarely if ever, get a better PC from a retailer, V.S. building one yourself with better components. I recently purchased a new AMD 8 core processor, and have found no flaws whatsoever. In fact, it keeps up with, if not outperforms any i7 i have seen to date. I can encode a blue-ray movie in about 2 hours with my processor, where an i7 on my old system took me about 3. Its always good to have spare horsepower than to not have enough, in effect you are left with a substantially more future proof system. In conclusion, my advice is to do a little bit of research, and find what kind of budget you are on, and buy the barebone components and build it yourself, you will save alot of time in the process, and will also be keeping your hard earned money at the same time.

The new 8 core Piledriver CPU's from AMD do not out perform Ivy Bridge I5's like the 3570K, never-mind the 8 threaded 3770k. You cannot compare a newer CPU to an older generation CPU and expect the numbers to not totally be different - it's called innovation.

I completely agree with you, it isnt fair to compare the seperate generations, therefore it wouldn't be fair of anyone to suggest someone to buy an older generation processor. However, to date I run my cpu @ 4.25 on 8 cores, and let me guarantee you, it blows any i5 out of the water, as of last night, I did come across an i7 that was slightly faster than mine, however at triple the price, it just seems logical to go with an amd.

boostingbuddy wrote

Generation wrote

boostingbuddy wrote In my opinion, you will very rarely if ever, get a better PC from a retailer, V.S. building one yourself with better components. I recently purchased a new AMD 8 core processor, and have found no flaws whatsoever. In fact, it keeps up with, if not outperforms any i7 i have seen to date. I can encode a blue-ray movie in about 2 hours with my processor, where an i7 on my old system took me about 3. Its always good to have spare horsepower than to not have enough, in effect you are left with a substantially more future proof system. In conclusion, my advice is to do a little bit of research, and find what kind of budget you are on, and buy the barebone components and build it yourself, you will save alot of time in the process, and will also be keeping your hard earned money at the same time.

The new 8 core Piledriver CPU's from AMD do not out perform Ivy Bridge I5's like the 3570K, never-mind the 8 threaded 3770k. You cannot compare a newer CPU to an older generation CPU and expect the numbers to not totally be different - it's called innovation.

I completely agree with you, it isnt fair to compare the seperate generations, therefore it wouldn't be fair of anyone to suggest someone to buy an older generation processor. However, to date I run my cpu @ 4.25 on 8 cores, and let me guarantee you, it blows any i5 out of the water, as of last night, I did come across an i7 that was slightly faster than mine, however at triple the price, it just seems logical to go with an amd.

No, your Piledriver CPU does not blow any I5 out of the water. An i7 3770k is $300 which is not triple the price and is an even better CPU - basically an i5 with hyper-threading.

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The benchmarks don't lie.

More cores =/= more better.

really nice computer