My fiancee desperately needs a better computer for interior design, CAD, and 3D rendering software, so we're building a computer... I'm pretty stoked. We got a lot of money from family lately (wedding stuff and whatnot) and we decided to build one that'd last us a while (good for our needs now and upgradeable later on when necessary). I'll post the build once it all comes together (a friend of mine is helping is build it), but I'll just say that I'm squirming waiting for a freakin' 8-core processor to come in the mail
The gist of it is that her programs are CPU-heavy, so we're dumping the most money into that initially. We've got a couple friends in and out of college helping us build it, and it's going to all come out to between 750-850, I think... I don't know what that would be considered (middle? high-middle? I know some people dump 2 grand into gaming rigs, so )
Sweet. The stats were somewhat comparable but the GTX970 seemed to outperform and run cooler/quieter. Then again... $100 more expensive (with the deal I got).
I dunno. It's hard to weed through Intel fanboys in regards to processors or NVidia fanboys in regards to graphics cards. I mean, I get it, but when it's an issue of more than a hundred dollars savings in some cases for only a small amount of sacrificed performance...
(some guy on reddit literally told me I was going to be forking out the extra savings in my electric bill because I went with the R9 290 over the GTX 970 and the GTX runs a turdjillion times more efficiently and blah blah blah)
You might pay a little extra for electricity, but in an amount that's so insignificant that if it seriously worries you, a gaming PC isn't for you.
I have an R9 290, and I lurves it. That said, I will probably go Nvidia next time primarily because the AMD drivers are still flaky (Under ATI they were awful, lol). Like...sometimes-you-can't-play-games flaky. It's usually fixed by updating to the newest version (AMD Gaming Evolved is a good program for managing that), but still annoying.
Intel vs AMD comes down to a couple things: AMD is a little less efficient at higher speeds, but negligibly so. The other main concern is that Intel tends to have newer versions of hardware earlier, and a few exclusive hardware things that are nice for certain applications (See Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3, for instance).
Unless you are serious about the absolute best in processor technology RIGHT NOW, then AMD is just as viable a competitor. Anyone who says otherwise is the elitist type that leads me to not posting on Reddit.
Haha, yeah. My techier friend wanted to double check /r/buildapc to get simple feedback on the build and basically got a universal "why didn't you use an i5 and gtx970" response with the suggestions being to revamp the entire thing.
Okay, reddit. Forget we asked yes, the quad core intel will outperform the octacore AMD and yes savings do all add up and no I do not have the money to spring the build to a 1,000-1,200 dollars. I can handle having a mid range PC that can still run everything from this year on high settings or better XD
In other news, half the parts are in, including the case and processor :3 the biggest complaints seemed to stem from some of these AMD units having heating issues, but there will be a liquid cooling system as well. I'll dig up the link when not on mobile.
