Quote Originally Posted by MiRai View Post
Do you have any data to back up this statement? I mean... there's a good reason why Intel is able to price their CPUs the way that they do -- It's because they're better.
I like how you ask me for data without providing any of your own. I don't need data from you as I've already utilized the great power of google galore on this. Also this is within the realm of my profession. You do sound like apple people talking about their intel macs. They have to be better because they cost more!!! Despite you know running the same intel chip as the cheaper PC that they are busy dissing (not to mention cheap caps etc). Like I said earlier you cannot beat AMD for multitasking for less then $250 for a CPU. This is a simple fact and a quick visit to newegg will show you that the only intel CPUs that can keep up with an FX 8xx0 series in multitasking costs more. Isboxer is certainly a program that takes advantage of multitasking capabilities. If you have the money splurging on Intel with a good z97 or z87 chipset mobo is the way to go. If you're on a budget and need to buy other things too then AMD is well worth a look. Having said all that I find that eve tends to hit the memory the hardest. I can run 8 clients on low on an e7200 (3.2ghz) with 4 GB of ram a hd5770 and a 7200 rpm sata drive. Watching the stats on that system I can clearly see that it's being limited by RAM and not CPU capability. In case you're wondering I use a separate hard drive for a page file and a 4 GB USB stick for readyboost. So 16 gb is what i would consider a bare minimum for a mulitbox system like this. If you're going to get the 4770 you might want to try to get the K version so you can either overclock now or in a couple years when the system isn't quite as fast as you'd like. The price difference varies but I see about 30 bucks difference. You're already paying 300 bucks for a CPU don't cheap out now :P Your motherboard choice is a fine choice so it's obvious you are paying attention to trends. The z97 boards don't really add much (msata and potentially more cpu support) so unless you find one in your price range I wouldn't be too worried about that right now. If there's only one thing you listen to from me I hope it's this. Get a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO cooler and some good thermal paste. Last evo cooler I bought had thermal paste with it. I'm not sure how good CM's paste is because I already had an open artic silver tube. Haswells run hotter then prior iterations and the evo cooler is cheap piece of mind (also quieter then stock cooling). If you already have aftermarket cooling then disregard this comment. For some lovely reason the forum refuses to allow any formatting in my post. So I'm stuck with on giant paragraph...