how good is this type of pc ?

• Mystickskye wrote on 2013-04-08 01:55
  He's talking about buying a prebuilt computer not an octo core. As it is, it's generally cheaper to build your own or comparatively similar. It is more time consuming to build it yourself but it's not as if you're constantly building it, you build it once and for most people that's all the work you'll ever do.
  
  As it is, you can get cheap 8 core CPUs but it still begs the question why. If you're not making use of the extra cores then it's generally better to put your money elsewhere. Well, Vishera closed the gap a lot (whereas Zambezi actually made it worse in a lot of cases) and as of writing the FX-8320 is about the same price as the i5-3550P and the FX-8350 can be had for $200. Thing is again, if you're not making use of the extra cores then there's not much argument for them.
  
  This is a "single threaded" task:
  

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  This is a "multi-threaded" task:
  

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  For tasks that use fewer threads, the i5's will tend to beat the AMD octocores because they're "better". However if there are tasks that let the octocore fully utilise all eight cores then the octocore will perform around better than the i5 quad cores. The i7 quadcores are a bit different due to hyperthreading, sometimes the 8 core visheras come really close to the i7-3770k, sometimes the i7-3770k still destroys the 8 core vishera.
  
  A lot of tasks your computer performs will fall in between these extreme examples, not single-threaded nor not vastly multi-threaded. Gaming whilst improving continues to make poor use of lots of cores, even quad cores can represent significant diminishing returns over dual cores.
  
  To sum it all up, the most important question to ask yourself is what you'll be using the computer for and how much you want to spend on various parts. If you have to buy prebuilt, give links to sellers you can buy from (I said this before but you seem to have not seen it).
• Splatulated wrote on 2013-04-17 08:30
  can explain cores to me
  
  why would 4cores be better than 8 ? what kind of stuff would i need to have running to legitamtely say 8 cores would be better than 4 ?
  
  i tend to have mabi running in background all the time now i also like to play terraria and arcanist I browse imgur and these forums sometmes on gamefaqs and bethesda forums
  
  i have skype yahoo and steam all running at same time
  I occasionally have facebook up and browse xbox.com
  
  Id like to get scribblenauts unlimited eventually as well (play SuperScribbleNauts all time on my sisters Ds when im waiting for things or bored)
• Compass wrote on 2013-04-17 18:55

  Quote from Splatulated;1069450:

  can explain cores to me
  
  why would 4cores be better than 8 ? what kind of stuff would i need to have running to legitamtely say 8 cores would be better than 4 ?

  
  Because most programs don't benefit from using 8 cores.
  
  

  Quote from Splatulated;1069450:

  i tend to have mabi running in background all the time now i also like to play terraria and arcanist I browse imgur and these forums sometmes on gamefaqs and bethesda forums
  
  i have skype yahoo and steam all running at same time
  I occasionally have facebook up and browse xbox.com
  
  Id like to get scribblenauts unlimited eventually as well (play SuperScribbleNauts all time on my sisters Ds when im waiting for things or bored)

  
  Any modern computer can do this without a problem.
• Splatulated wrote on 2013-04-17 20:06

  Quote from Compass;1069667:

  Because most programs don't benefit from using 8 cores.
  
  
  Any modern computer can do this without a problem.

  
  
  but say i wanted to have more running at same time ? maybe get skyrim and mod it 50billion times ? and have it run in background and get morrowind aswell
• Mystickskye wrote on 2013-04-18 05:56
  I very literally just explained cores ಠ_ಠ
  
  To keep this short, between an AMD octocore and an intel quadcore you most probably want the quadcore. You're very clearly not doing the sort of work that requires an octocore (you'd barely make my i5 stretch its legs) and the only reason you probably thought it was a good idea is because 8 is greater than 4.
  
  P.S Skyrim doesn't benefit from having more than two cores (unless they patched this in a recent update)
• Splatulated wrote on 2013-04-18 06:07

  Quote from Mystickskye;1070067:

  I very literally just explained cores ಠ_ಠ
  
  To keep this short, between an AMD octocore and an intel quadcore you most probably want the quadcore. You're very clearly not doing the sort of work that requires an octocore (you'd barely make my i5 stretch its legs) and the only reason you probably thought it was a good idea is because 8 is greater than 4.
  
  P.S Skyrim doesn't benefit from having more than two cores (unless they patched this in a recent update)

  
  
  what would i need to do to stretch 8 cores? and if 4 cores is best what can do to make it awseome for about $1000.00 / would 6 cores be too many as well ?
• Mystickskye wrote on 2013-04-18 06:09
  You'd want to do a lot of heavily threaded work like rendering and code compiling.
  
  Why are you so fixated on having more cores? You've already been told that more isn't necessarily better. Your other question I'm not sure what you're asking.
• Splatulated wrote on 2013-04-18 07:28

  Quote from Mystickskye;1070075:

  You'd want to do a lot of heavily threaded work like rendering and code compiling.
  
  Why are you so fixated on having more cores? You've already been told that more isn't necessarily better. Your other question I'm not sure what you're asking.

  
  
  wants a computer that will last a really long time and be able to do anything with out slowdown or issues and have lots stuff running at same time with out any lagg also wnat do it on max settings .-.
• SUNFLARE wrote on 2013-04-18 08:18
  A quad core will do just fine but 8 is overkills what are you using ur pc for ?
• Splatulated wrote on 2013-04-18 09:05

  Quote from SUNFLARE;1070118:

  A quad core will do just fine but 8 is overkills what are you using ur pc for ?

  
  
  i want to do everything even if i cant .-. id love to learn how to code or animate that which was already drawn
• Compass wrote on 2013-04-18 18:54

  Quote from Splatulated;1070132:

  i want to do everything even if i cant .-. id love to learn how to code or animate that which was already drawn

  
  
  Splat, you just had 3 members that said you won't benefit that much from that CPU.
  If you want to buy it then go get it. It is your money after all, but don't ask for advice if you're not going to listen to it.
• Splatulated wrote on 2013-04-18 19:13

  Quote from Compass;1070389:

  Splat, you just had 3 members that said you won't benefit that much from that CPU.
  If you want to buy it then go get it. It is your money after all, but don't ask for advice if you're not going to listen to it.

  
  
  but what programs = worthy of useing an 8 core ?
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2013-04-18 19:53
  ..sheesh.
• Splatulated wrote on 2013-04-18 20:00

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;1070454:

  ..sheesh.

  
  
  yeah bunch a questions on whether games use 8 cores or not
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2013-04-18 20:03
  You didn't even follow the links. The second one already mentions several non-game applications that utilise multi-core CPUs effectively.