AMD 1090T VS i5 750

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As the title states.
Looking for some real world advice here. Game on occasion but do some development on my personal PC.
Currently have a i5 750 and looking at the AMD now.

A bit of a fan boy but don't wanna spend the cash for no reason.
I'll be looking to play The Witcher 3 and BattleField 4 on high when they are released so some advice on the chips would be appreciated.
 
It really depends on how much you're going to be spending on it. If you're buying a X6 chip with a new motherboard as well, it might be worth your while looking at a FX-6350 or FX-8320. A i7 would be ideal in this situation, but it depends on how much you're willing to spend on it.

For all practical purposes, a Phenom II X6-1090T is roughly equivalent to a FX-6350. Coming from a i7-750 you won't see a big speed-up unless specific applications benefit from the extra two cores. In its heyday, it was faster than a Core i7-920 in a lot of multi-threaded situations and I know many people who use a X6 on a daily basis for programming.

Anandtech did a review on Haswell and included benchmark numbers for the Nehalem family as well as the FX-8350. It'll give you an idea of what to expect should you upgrade.
 
I don't think it's worth the upgrade.

I had the AMD 1055T (2.8Ghz stock, OC to 3.3GHz), recently upgraded to a quadcore i5 3570k. Those are across two companies and two generations. The day to day difference is there, but the effect is minimal. I do have an SSD and a HD7870 which evens things out, but when it comes to your i5 750 and the 1090T (3.2GHz), the difference is even smaller.

Rather go for the new AMD FX series, or the Intel Haswell series if you are looking at getting a decent, noticeable upgrade.

If you just want to play new games (Witcher and BF) then a GFX upgrade would be much more effective.
 
[-]Well since you already have a Intel motherboard[/-] 1156 socket is discontinued.

According to CPU Boss the AMD is much better than the intel CPU, but it all depends what GPU you you have!

You can have the best CPU in the world and a rubbish GPU and you will hardly play anything with near high settings, so tell us your GPU and budget.
 
Currently using a AMD 6770 GFX Card. Have a AM2+ board that I used with a X2 270.
 
Pho3nix said:
Currently using a AMD 6770 GFX Card. Have a AM2+ board that I used with a X2 270.
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The GPU is fine (Battlefield 4 will run on High settings at 720p, I imagine) but the board won't work. AM2+ is DDR2-only with some very rare boards supporting DDR3. An AM3 processor will work in there because it retained the DDR2 memory controller, but AM3+ requires DDR3 to function. You need a new board in this case as well.

It might be a good idea to consider upgrading to Ivy Bridge/Haswell or an AM3+ FX build. Either one will set you back about R3500. The third option, which requires little hassle, is to get a SSD and a Core i7-860 as an interim upgrade.
 
For gaming/development, I really cannot recommend upgrading from the i5 750 to the X6 1090T.

Upgrade recommendations for a development PC would be SSD (120GB+ in size) and more RAM.
I'll only recommend upgrading the CPU to like Haswell after you've started using a SSD!
If you think your CPU is too slow, then get an aftermarket cooler and just overclock it :)

My i7 860, 32GB RAM + 128GB OCZ Agility 4 outperforms, in terms of build/compilation times, most of the servers that we have at our office due to the SSD.
 
Noticed a notion that most of the forumites on here is Intel fanboys... i'm starting upgrades soon (as in next week) had a Core2Quad for the past 5 years now and could never complain but checking prices for the upgrades is another matter altogether and rather giving the AM3+ FX series a go cos it sounds good bang for buck wise:love:
 
Pada said:
For gaming/development, I really cannot recommend upgrading from the i5 750 to the X6 1090T.

Upgrade recommendations for a development PC would be SSD (120GB+ in size) and more RAM.
I'll only recommend upgrading the CPU to like Haswell after you've started using a SSD!
If you think your CPU is too slow, then get an aftermarket cooler and just overclock it :)

My i7 860, 32GB RAM + 128GB OCZ Agility 4 outperforms, in terms of build/compilation times, most of the servers that we have at our office due to the SSD.
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In the Intel system I'm running with 10gb of Ram. Been thinking of a SSD but think it might be better use in the Laptop :\ Will see if there are some bargains.

Bought this Intel system ( board and CPU) for R1800 a couple weeks back. AMD bundle is the same + aftermarket cooler.
 
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