Need help looking for CPU,Motherboard,Case.

Dublinpato

How's it going everyone i'am new to PC building and have a Gigabyte 7950 3GB AMD Radeon but it's a bottleneck with my current CPU and motherboard and a really tight squeeze with my case and i need you're help finding the right parts what i'am looking for is

A. CPU now i have my eyes on a Intel-i5 3570K 3rd gen but i'am not sure, what do you guy's think?

B. Motherboard that will work with Intel-i5 and my GPU.

C.a case that will fit everything nice with more space for upgrading later.

any help is much appreciated thanks.

simon360

Dublinpato wrote: »

How's it going everyone i'am new to PC building and have a Gigabyte 7950 3GB AMD Radeon but it's a bottleneck with my current CPU and motherboard and a really tight squeeze with my case and i need you're help finding the right parts what i'am looking for is

A. CPU now i have my eyes on a Intel-i5 3570K 3rd gen but i'am not sure, what do you guy's think?

B. Motherboard that will work with Intel-i5 and my GPU.

C.a case that will fit everything nice with more space for upgrading later.

any help is much appreciated thanks.

AMD processors are cheaper and when combined with a Radeon card they boost performance I'm pretty sure but the Intel processors are good at the same time (only talking about a small performance increase). What price range would be for your case? and for your motherboard? YOur motherboard would take Socket 1155 for that cpu.

Monotype

simon360 wrote: »

AMD processors are cheaper and when combined with a Radeon card they boost performance...

That's not true at all. However, they are good value.

The main options to consider if you've got a reasonable amount to spend €200-400 are:

AMD 8320. Octo-core. Weaker than Intel solutions per core, but cheaper. PS4 and XboxOne will use AMD architecture and games are likely to move towards utilising multiple cores; it's likely that octo-cores will be more useful in the future. At present, few games use more than 4 cores, so Intel wins in performance. Overclocks well but becomes very power-hungry when heavily overclocked.

Intel 3570K and a Z77 motherboard. Last generation Ivy Bridge quad core. Overclocks reasonably well. There won't be any new CPUs for this platform.

Intel 4670K and Z87 motherboard. Current generation Haswell quad core. Performance is a little better at stock speed but doesn't overclock as well as last generation.

Intel Xeon 1230v2. Quad core with hyper-threading. Similar to 3570K and similarly priced. Not overclockable but has hyper-threading. HT is not that useful at present except in heavy encoding, but similar to the octo-cores, it could become more useful.

simon360

Really? I thought the whole Vision control centre did something? Or is that just branding to make you buy a AMD cpu and gpu together?

Monotype

It does; it's for tweaking your settings and controlling various aspects of your display and graphics card. It's not really related to your CPU, unless you have an APU, as far as I know. AMD have done various things in the past to encourage pairing of their CPUs and GPUs such as calling it various by various names (AMD Spider, AMD Dragon) or by releasing software to optimise performance. They haven't really done anything to change performance significantly when pairing CPU with GPU. They haven't got much room to better themselves in CPUs immediately and a lot of people buy Intel CPUs + AMD cards so they're not going to upset that market. Plus, I'm sure there's probably competition laws that they'd be wandering into.

BloodBath

What's your budget? These parts would work together nicely and would net you an overclock in the region of 4.5ghz. I'd add at least 1 case fan. Ideally 3 or 4. If getting 3 or 4 you will need the fan splitter. Total price around €365-380.

3570k

Asrock z75 pro3

CM 212 evo

Bitfenix Shinobi

Additional case fans

Fan splitter