i7 or AMD A6-3620 processor

Jamie_Cortez

robmar0se wrote: »

Many of the folks that come on this website forum, do so because they aren't technically savvy, hence it is best to give advice that the OPs would find most helpful. I might be wrong but from reading the original query, I don't believe their objective is to buy a machine that they will need to upgrade the CPU in the relatively near "future"!

But what he has listed as the "daily life" of the machine does not require an overly expensive I7 processor far from it.
Any of the chips i listed there will certainly last as long as 4/5 years based on what he has said he will be doing with it, the plus point to AMD on an AM3+ socket is the possible (motherboard permitting) upgrade path into Piledriver based chips.

The OP can easily get a Phenom II x4 965BE or an I5 chip and it will do everything he wants in abundance for the foreseeable and be a cheaper than an I7 that he does not need...too many people advise over spending for people on budgets for excessive parts they do not need.


The only aspect of "future proofing" that can be considered as such would be to not purchase OEM, and pick the parts based on requirements whilst looking to the future and upgrade paths in cycles as and when required.

thor

robmar0se wrote: »

You say that your a4-3300 2.5Ghz is happily multitasking, which I can believe subject to what you're doing and how lean you keep the PC. It is as you say a budget cpu, my question is how often do you change the board/cpu? I myself like to keep mine for a reasonable time, for example the Q6600 which I use, is now 5 years old, and is still 40% more powerful than the a4-3300, so hopefully will keep me going for another 5 (provided I keep it lean and mean).

I always wonder whether it is better to buy cheap and change more often, or go for something better and be more future proof. I guess it is very much down to individual choice. Can't say that either concept is wrong.

I would rather prefer to keep it cheap and change less often.
If I was a gamer then maybe that would be different. My previous setup was a P4 3GHz system which I was perfectly happy with for 8 years and would have kept it except that my PC began to develop intermittent lock up and crashes which no amount of swapping components could get rid of(until I committed to buying the new cpu, motherboard and RAM - after which it began working ok again - but too late to save it)