Lynnfield i5 or AMD 8320E?

[SlowSpyder]

Those are just rendering benchmarks.

I already said before the FX chip will be faster at heavy threaded loads lol yet everyone keeps posting cinebench numbers.

i'm looking for numbers for average workloads.

What's an average workload? I can run benches.

 

[SlowSpyder]

http://www.amazon.com/ASRock-Fatal1ty-970-Performance-Motherboard/dp/B00QTP221K

or if you want a Micro-ATX (yea almost 3 years after the Bulldozer release)

http://www.amazon.com/ASRock-970M-P...UTF8&qid=1430248276&sr=8-1&keywords=970M+Pro3

Pretty nice little board there. Throw an 8320E in there and run 4GHz+ no problem. I think the only major difference between the 990 and 970 chipsets is the number of PICe 2.0 lanes.

 

[perdomot]

If you don't game and you don't do much compute intense stuff, why even get a new computer?

My motherboard seems to be having issues and after having my rig for 4+ years, I think its time for a change. Really don't want my PC to suddenly stop working on me and THEN have to build.

 

[perdomot]

^^^^this

what you are looking at will be a sidegrade.

And if your budget supports it you are better off going straight to a Haswell Quad.

I have an i5-4590 wishlist set up on Newegg already but was curious as to what AMD could offer. The Techreport article seems to suggest an 8320 cpu is on par with the 4590 on many fronts.

 

[CHADBOGA]

I have an i5-4590 wishlist set up on Newegg already but was curious as to what AMD could offer. The Techreport article seems to suggest an 8320 cpu is on par with the 4590 on many fronts.

I think the Tech Report article was testing an 8370E, but regardless, whilst the FX83xx can hold its own or even be ahead on some multithreaded applications, most applications you use everyday, don't have enough threads in them to overcome the single threaded penalty, that comes with an FX83xx over a quad Haswell.

So for your everyday tasks, the i5-4590 will feel snappier.

There is also the issue of much better energy efficiency on the part of the i5-4590.

 

[AtenRa]

Thanks. I was checking the 990FX Fatal1ty board on Newegg as well. Had good look with Asrock so far. Is there a big difference in the chipsets?

The 990FX has 16 more PCIe Gen2.0 lanes, it also supports 2600MHz HT when 970 can only go up to 2400MHz by overclocking (2200MHz official support).

If the price difference is small go for the 990FX. If the 970 is a lot cheaper, since you wont OC or use SLI/CF then go with the 970.

 

[perdomot]

I think the Tech Report article was testing an 8370E, but regardless, whilst the FX83xx can hold its own or even be ahead on some multithreaded applications, most applications you use everyday, don't have enough threads in them to overcome the single threaded penalty, that comes with an FX83xx over a quad Haswell.

So for your everyday tasks, the i5-4590 will feel snappier.

There is also the issue of much better energy efficiency on the part of the i5-4590.

Thanks, I thought that might be the case but wanted some confirmation after being away from building for a few years.