Was that a good choice?

SpringWater

SpringWater

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When I was building my pc I had a low budget. I wanted to get a cpu for no more than $150, but then I found a bundle that included an i7 950, msi x58m, and 9gb of hyperx for like $250. With the same budget I could maybe go for the amd's vishera 8320 or something like that... Did I make a good choice buying the i7 950 instead of the 8320, or is the 950 a weaker cpu:confused:
 
They are pretty close, i think they 8320 might have a slight advantage but anandtech's benches dont have many benches to compare them
 
I suppose that I might have made a good choice cause if I got the 8320 I could maybe upgrade it to an 8350 which is very similar to the 8350, and because I got the 950 on the 1366 socket I can always get a 6 core i7 which I think would beat the 8350... am I right?
 
The 950 is still plenty powerful enough! I wouldn't bother upgrading to a hex-core i7 on Socket 1366, too expensive.
 
Yeh, your i7 950 should be good for even a few more years of great gaming.
You can always test my beta to see the difference between yours and an FX8350 :D
 
That's good to hear... I felt really bad after I bought it cause I thought that it's not powerful enough, but if it's as powerful as the 8350 then I'm happy :D.
 
SpringWater said:
That's good to hear... I felt really bad after I bought it cause I thought that it's not powerful enough, but if it's as powerful as the 8350 then I'm happy :D.
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In most of the scenarios here http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/100?vs=697 your i7 950 is just a bit slower or about equal to an FX-8350 - but remember the 950 came out in Q2'2009 (almost 4 years ago) and the FX-8350 came out in 2012.

I'd say you've good a good CPU there.
 
Cost VS cost the I7 950 is definitely better than the 8320, and especially the 8350.

At single threaded tasks the I7 is still stronger than the 8350. 99% of what people do will never use more than 4 threads anyway, in fact most tasks are single threaded which intel has the upper hand on even though clocked 1ghz slower.

The I7 950 will also EASILY overclock to 4.2ghz as a daily overclock with a decent cooler. The 8320 will likely be able to reach around 4.5-4.6ghz for daily and an 8350 will reach about 4.8ghz for daily overclocks on average. And since the I7 950 at 3ghz beats the 8350 at 4ghz at most tasks, 4.2ghz on the I7 950 will quite easily beat anything AMD has to offer currently even overclocked.

Since you have to use the 8320 as a cost comparison, there will only be 400mhz likely seperating them overclocked (4.2 VS 4.6ghz). So if the I7 950 at 3ghz still beats the the 4ghz 8350 at single threaded, it will be even more of a margin with 400mhz seperating them. You made the right choice.


jonnyp11 said:
Those are rediculously priced and only better at multi threaded, and very few thing can use 12 threads
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Thats not true. Westmere had considerable single threaded improvement over nehalem. Very few things use 8 threads too, anything that uses 8 threads can likely use 12 as well so there will be large improvements.
 
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