Hi,I'm planning to upgrade my Mobo, CPU and RAM, and i don't know what to do. I've looked around and i found out that AMD Bulldozer is coming out next month and should i upgrade from my Phenom to Bulldozer or to change to an i5-2500k?
Yeah, you'll want to wait for Bulldozer. Now the top of the line Bulldozer Chip is the FX-8170p that's stock clocked at over 4ghz. I don't know if they actually needed someting with a higher clock speed to beat the core i7 or if they plan to charge $500-600 for that chip. The prices of the Core i5-2500k and i7-2600k have already dropped $30-40. I paid $334 for the i7-2600k, now it's $300. What will the price be in 2 months? You know something's wrong or UP when an Intel processor goes down in price. Usually, they're trying to find a way to increase or maintain the price. To say Sandy Bridge is better is Fanboyism. AMD Claims that bulldozer will be 40%-50% faster while using the same Thermal Design Power. Most of AMD's Pehnom II high end chips run at 125TDP. The FX-p series runs at the same TDP. It's impossible to look at a benchmark becasue the 125w p series chips are all 8-core chips.
Performance wise, Bulldozer is gonna be further ahead, thats what they claim, but you will have to wait for AMD to bring it out to make a proper decision. As no proper review or anything is out yet, it will be foolish to speculate anything.
Wait for bulldozer and decide then. And don't listen to the guy who says the i5 2500k's integrated graphics are good, they aren't good by any stretch of the imagination.
Sandy Bridge definitely; I have the i5-2500K, and it's integrated graphics are excellent.
