Ivy3570k-thoughts?

[Fwrothy]

I have been thinking about a mid price gaming build but want some room to grow. Found a list I made awhile back where I hilihgted the 3570k. Though I was initially inclined to to go AMD-
Any thoughts?
-the ramblings a of a noob

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Ivy3570k-thoughts?

i5 processors are pretty good, I got sandy 2500k, it has handled everything I've thrown at it including Battlefield 4 when it wasn't bugging out.

What do you plan on playing?

[Fwrothy]

Re: Ivy3570k-thoughts?

Just really got into gaming again in the last few years on xbox, and don't see any real benefits to next gen if I can put my 4-5 Hun towards a PC. any brief forays before were platform gaming- wish id discovered PC gaming years ago, but probably would have been bad for productivity!
Anyway haven't really been an MMO guy as of yet, might be tempted to try ESO if they don't micro transact us to death...
What I really want to do is get ES anthology and mod it up- never played Morrowind. Battlefield looks rockin but I'm sure at this point,I'd be at quite a disadvantage.
Just want some room to grow and enjoy good graphics...

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Ivy3570k-thoughts?

for a budget pc get the i5 and pair it up with an nvidia 760/660 or better.
You can get away with a 650/750, if you're tight.

AMD just can't compete.

I recommend evga for video cards and gigabyte for motherboards.

I've got about 5 evga cards, none have failed yet.

[Fwrothy]

Re: Ivy3570k-thoughts?

Thanks!
I will be sure to put that in my notes I heard the 2500k is good bang for the buck, heard they were scarce though.

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Ivy3570k-thoughts?

Thanks!
I will be sure to put that in my notes I heard the 2500k is good bang for the buck, heard they were scarce though.

yeah the 2500k sandy bridge chips were excellent overclockers, I hit 5.2ghz on air with mine, all though I was idling at 50* C, not all can hit 5.2ghz most you'll get is 4.8-5.0. Frankly I have no need to overclock, nothing hasn't really stressed my system much.

Specs:
i5 2500k
EVGA GTX 670
8GB of corsair ram
750w Corsair PSU,
Three 500GB Seagate drives in a raid 0

[Elysarian]

Re: Ivy3570k-thoughts?

I beg to differ on the "AMD just can't compete" up there, I have an FX8120...

For the type of gaming the OP mentions an AMD processor really won't have any issues. I play all of the Elder scrolls games up to and including Skyrim (with mods) and my framerate is consistently high. I'm also in the ESO beta and that runs well too.

Other games I don’t have framerate issues with include every CoD game and all the Crysis games.

my brother plays the BF games on a similar rig to mine (only difference is he has a radeon 9750 where I have a geforce gtx760).

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Ivy3570k-thoughts?

Yeah, it may be able to handle it, but amount of power wasted, I mean 95-220 watts to run 4-8 core FX chip vs i5 using 65 to 85 watts for a quad core, not too mention the heat generated, great if you live up north, not good if you live in the midwest, south, and the pacific.

And for what? to accomplish the same thing?

Sorry AMD may have price and a raw V12 but Intel got a twin turbo charged V8 and can outperform AMD with little to no effort.

I use to be a fanboy of AMD when Athlon XP's were king and P4's were garbage.
Now it's the opposite.

Here's my take, if you want budget and heat, get AMD. If you want something that can perform and run cool, go intel.

[Elysarian]

Re: Ivy3570k-thoughts?

what concerns me at the moment is AMD's apparent loss of interest in the performance desktop market (and indeed the server market).

from what I've seen of their roadmaps there are no new products due in either segment for the foreseeable future, this may just be down to them concentrating on their console chips or trying to move people toward APU's.

whatever the reason, Intel have the desktop CPU market pretty much to themselves now and a lack of competition can't be good for anyone (though you could argue that CPU tech has reached a plateau and both Intel and AMD are waiting for software to catch up with multi core processors)