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I really was thinking of going to Zen this year, but I think I will just go ahead and upgrade my current CPU to an i7-4790K and wait for a year or two to do a full refresh. I can't see anything in this release beating that for the same money. Now, my living room system is definitely a possibility to go Zen. Right now it runs an Athlon IIx3 unlocked to 4 cores and while it does fine for what my wife usually plays on it I could future proof her a lot with the upgrade to that 1400x.
I'm in a fairly similar situation as you, my 4690k is actually being a bottleneck in some situations, but I think I'm going to just go zen because I've been wanting a good AMD cpu for a while now and if they are really that good, I want that for my main rig. I'm probably going to move my current system out to the living room to replace the aging Q6600 system.
Thing is, I am not sure they are going to be that good compared to the higher end 1150 Intel processors. I may do some waiting (my 4590 is not bad off yet) but I am really not too encouraged yet. If I was still on one of the older Intel platforms or any AMD I would be a lot more excited but I know a Zen plus MB and memory that competes with that $350 i7 upgrade is going to cost a lot more.
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[–] 8058283? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I really was thinking of going to Zen this year, but I think I will just go ahead and upgrade my current CPU to an i7-4790K and wait for a year or two to do a full refresh. I can't see anything in this release beating that for the same money. Now, my living room system is definitely a possibility to go Zen. Right now it runs an Athlon IIx3 unlocked to 4 cores and while it does fine for what my wife usually plays on it I could future proof her a lot with the upgrade to that 1400x.
[–] Dark_Shroud 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah I had planned to do a new build this year but I bought a few parts for the current system instead after some unexpected costs.
I might do one more i7 build. But I've only been using AMD CPUs for the last three years already. I love using the APUs in budget builds for people.
[–] KAHJ 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'm in a fairly similar situation as you, my 4690k is actually being a bottleneck in some situations, but I think I'm going to just go zen because I've been wanting a good AMD cpu for a while now and if they are really that good, I want that for my main rig. I'm probably going to move my current system out to the living room to replace the aging Q6600 system.
[–] 8059182? ago
Thing is, I am not sure they are going to be that good compared to the higher end 1150 Intel processors. I may do some waiting (my 4590 is not bad off yet) but I am really not too encouraged yet. If I was still on one of the older Intel platforms or any AMD I would be a lot more excited but I know a Zen plus MB and memory that competes with that $350 i7 upgrade is going to cost a lot more.