good choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M32crkFtnaw

Well there's always some new technology about to come out and I wanted to upgrade now not wait. I nearly increased the budget and went for a i5 but finally decided to stick to a i3 which in all likelihood will do what I want..and if it doesn't I can always upgrade.

That said if they release a great quad core/i5 equivalent CPU for under £100 then maybe I will regret it!

In reply to a post by astateoftrance:

Well there's always some new technology about to come out and I wanted to upgrade now not wait. I nearly increased the budget and went for a i5 but finally decided to stick to a i3 which in all likelihood will do what I want..and if it doesn't I can always upgrade.

That said if they release a great quad core/i5 equivalent CPU for under £100 then maybe I will regret it!

Thats the difference between you and me if i was interested with PC Gaming as i have floated with the idea as you know.

I would waste literally £1000s as i would want the best, and probably i would regret it 2 weeks later when i find I'm more contented with my consoles.....This is probably one of my wisest decisions as i don't make many these days.

When i say £1000s I'm not really meaning that, i just would not be content with something around £600,but Trance thats not a knock on what you spend mate as i fully understand that if you indeed had a lot more money and budget i doubt you would go down that line .

Im also not claiming i have [loads of Money] Im just stupid when it comes to technology and its my biggest flaw ?

I even pay the stupid early upgrade fees on occasions with a mobile phone i can not wait for....Catch my drift, might be another 6 months before i can upgrade, oh no! Not Timey i want it Today

You are right if I had more money I would have gone for a higher end system...no doubt about that. I also love technology so I can completely understand wanting the latest and best stuff

Edited by astateoftrance (Tue 13-Dec-16 21:45:16)

well this is where amd and intel have massively differed.

intel are releasing new gen cpus every year, but most of the recent one's have only been minor performance improvements, the last big performance improvement was sandy bridge. Although haswell has a moderate performance gain, and also with that said sandy bridge itself is now 30% or so behind on IPC as due to the sheer amount of incremental upgrades stacked up.

amd have been stuck on the same cpu tech for god knows how long, which is why they so uncompetitive, as the cpu's they currently sell are based on tech that is quite a few years old, on the flip side it means zen their next gen cpu will be a large performance jump from their existing tech which is a very bad buy right now.

so not having the latest intel generation of cpu is not a big deal providing you got something released in the last 3 years or so. The bigger changes have been on the chipset, for newer tech like sata3, pci express v3, m.2, ddr4, usb3 etc.

I think AMD's IPC is similar to core2duo chips. Since that gen intel had 2 large gains, from core2duo to the first gen core chips (core i5 750 gen) as that gen introduced on board memory controllers, then another nice jump with sandy bridge as starting that gen intel unlocked turbo mode v2.

Edited by Chrysalis (Wed 14-Dec-16 03:56:55)

Anyone give me suggestion which PC is the best for gaming I want to buy PC for playing latest games.

Edited by deleted (Mon 27-Mar-17 13:32:10)