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$800 Gaming PC

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EAGLEye52

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I have a friend who wants a knew PC because all he has a laptop with and old athlon. He has $800 to blow. He has no preferences just that it has to be Intel based and parts are going to be from newegg. He is going to be playing at 1080p and running 2 monitors. I need some suggestions on parts. Please help anything is appreciated.
 
Why do I get the bad feeling he needs an OS?

If not, I'd [thread=2192841]start here[/thread], drop the SSD, and drop to the 280X. That should be about $803 AR AP - but Mfenn will update it tomorrow.
 
Yes it is a different person. But this person also wants to start streaming to Twitch and uploading to YouTube. He is also learning autocadd so he wants to be able to do that pretty well. He also states that he wanted it to last him a while. He does have a copy of windows 8 that he just bought for the build a few days ago.
 
I just talked to him on the phone and he said that he doesn't care if he goes Intel or amd as long as the CPU can keep up with everything.
 
I was wondering if and 8350 would be a good option since he wants to stream to twitch, capture gameplay and edit it.
 
EAGLEye52 said:
I was wondering if and 8350 would be a good option since he wants to stream to twitch, capture gameplay and edit it.
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If you use the CPU to encode the stream, you'll get significantly better performance when streaming some games with an 8350 than with an i5, but gaming when not streaming will suffer a bit. You'll also have to deal with more heat, and you'll have to take care to make sure that you pick a motherboard that supports it. However, if you use Quicksync or AMD's new Twitch stream encoder, that won't be an issue.

As for editing... That I'm not sure about. I think some editing programs favor Intel.

AutoCAD is multithreaded, so that one might favor the 8350 slightly? Tough to say.
 
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I was wondering if and 8350 would be a good option since he wants to stream to twitch, capture gameplay and edit it.
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As always, the 8350 is actually closer to a quad-core than an eight-core due to AMD's module system with only 1/2 the number of floating point cores per marketing "cores". Notice how close the CPUs are in encoding. The FX-8350 is not a horrible choice if you don't mind the using twice the electricity on the CPU, but it's not faster than the i5 in multithreaded tasks, and the i5 just dominates it when running single-threaded.
 
I showed him the list that mfenn made and he agreed to go with it. Now that that's over I need to find some parts for my new PC since I traded my last one for some speakers. So I think that I'll make a thread for that
 
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