PC cooling help

[Danny-boy]

Buying any of the FX-8XXX or FX-9XXX series is/was not a clever idea. They are wasting a lot of energy the FX-9590 uses 2,5x more energy as a good one from Intel. So what does this mean?

AMD - 8 Logical Cores, 4 Physical Modules < actually only the power of 4 cores divided by 2 and overclocked to get 4,7 GHz.

Intel - 8 Physical Cores, 4 Physical Modules < 8 Real Cores that work together with a fair amount of cache within 4 modules.

This is just an example, I'm not very well known about Intel but buying an AMD CPU that came out later then the AMD Phenom II Series is pretty silly. Except the FX-8XXXE series. They are designed to be more energy efficient.

If you want to buy a new CPU - wait 4 months on the Cebit they will show off their new series and 2 months after it is out the prices will drop from 700 € down to 350 € for their new series. The new series will be energy efficient and powerful. Otherwise you could go ahead now and buy an Intel CPU. Intel has a better Performance on a lot of stuff, and more Cache then AMD so their CPU is faster.

You can compare AMD = BMW, VW etc.. and Intel as Mercedes, Lamborghini

AMD has very good CPU's for fair prices but Intel does deliver better quality/performance at all. Also you have to made be aware of when you buy an AMD CPU that says '4,7 GHz with Turbo up to 5,0 GHz' you will never reach 5,0 GHz. Without Turbo you will have 4,2-4,3 and with Turbo maximally 4,7 GHz. You get 10 % less GHz for sure. The companies don't lie but they are testing the CPUs under for us impossible circumstances. But when you buy an Intel CPU that says 4 GHz you will get 3,8 - 3,9 GHz maximally. Now you need to think if its worth to buy an AMD CPU, for me it is. As they are only 15 % more bad then Intel CPUs in gaming performance but 35 % cheaper so it was a fair deal until after AMD Phenom II series, when they raised the power input x2,5.

regards,
Rebirth

Yeah, long story short INTEL > AMD
INTEL are also around twice an expensive as AMD and if you are building a gaming/mid-high end PC you want to invest more money in a GPU than a CPU (Not saying you don't want to get a good CPU - you do, But an AMD processor is fine for most games and gives you an extra £150 or so to spend on getting a decent GPU).

Also this is off topic - we are talking about making his PC run cooler/quieter, not which processor he should have invested in.