Question / Help Upgrading, but for the best performance, which?

[Colonel_Black]

Hello.

I've currently got a I7-920 2.66GHz CPU, but I clearly need to upgrade my CPU for better in-game performance and streaming.

Being a student, I can't afford much and currently I have two in mind, but I'm just wondering what others may think.

I'd have to upgrade my motherboard due to it being a 1366 LGA socket, which I don't see many CPUs for (I think)

But here's the first CPU/Mobo I saw

And here's the other one.

If anyone could voice their opinion, it'd be appreciated, thanks :)

 

[kaloc]

AMD processors generally excel in the area of performance / price ratio and they are a good value, but for gaming + encoding at the same time the Intel combo wins hands down.

Here is a review of the 8350.. with the perfect page for you : Gaming while transcoding
http://techreport.com/review/23750/amd-fx-8350-processor-reviewed/9

 

[Colonel_Black]

Thank you for that link. Never seen that review before.
So perhaps my Intel i570k suggestion is a good one.

 

[DoezerGaming]

Hello!

I currently use an AMD-FX 8150 OC to 4.5 Ghz and I'm able to stream 1080p game play just fine. I also brows the web, have music and ventrilo running in the background. I DO NOT use a capture card and my stream/games run crisp/clear and smooth. Check out my stream (link below) and see for yourself.

www.twitch.tv/doezertv

Streaming software:
OBS

My Setup:
AMD FX-8150 OC 4.5Ghz (Cooled w/H80i)
Nvidia 660Ti 2Gb GPU
8GB of Corsair Vengeance ram
Asus Crosshair Formula V mobo
1TB WD HDD Green (yes I know Black is WAY better but this is a temp drive)

Internet-TWC 30mbps DOWN and 5mbps UP

My CPU temps run at 48C MAX when streaming. The CPU is rated for 60C MAX.

I know a lot of streamers use Intel i7, and there is nothing wrong with that. I use AMD simply because its what I can afford and it gets the job done pretty damn good. Take benchmarks with a grain of salt. I've always found that in "real world scenarios" AMD has NO issues performing and doing what its built to do.

Hope this helps!

-Doezer

 

[DoK_-]

i'm jealous that u got a 920 :( i got a i7 930 running at 4ghz, i got no fps drops while streaming ( at least of dota 2).


Just go for OC if you are fine with it and get processlasso, put OBS and your game in real time priority in it, split your cpu cores too: 0 to 3 for your game and 4 to 7 for OBS as games doesn't support all the cores for the moment ( you can already do it in windows but that's not well managed and you'll need to do this everytime :/ .And you'll already see some improvement.