lol not that video again
reality is that an even an older 2500k is faster overall for gaming. in fact in some games an 8350 cant even stay above 60 fps no matter how much gpu power you have.
I don't know if you read this thread or have been following it. I certainly haven't although I read the title and lol'd quite hard. "Beast" rig and "AMD FX" together is just always cute.
OP - "Because I had a tight budget and AMD FX is fine for me. It's mainly a gaming rig and not a video editing machine in which Intel is superior. I can play any game I have on ultra including crysis 3 and battlefield 4 at 1080p and I never drop below 30 frames while I average 40-50 frames per second on my most graphically demanding games."
So OP really doesn't care to hit 60 FPS which is quite obvious by the AMD FX choice. To be fair, I gamed at 30 FPS on my 6 year old gaming laptop while I was building my current rig and my brother and I both enjoyed it. Then I built my gaming rig and I'll never look back.
I mean what can you do to educate a person? I just got an SSD in 2013, and it's a requirement for any new PC going forward. The performance jump.... I don't know why I punished myself so hard. I got a 250 GB SSD for my games/OS. Everything else goes on normal hard drives. Everything else actually is PURELY Movies/Television shows and in fact each new Hard Drive is simply named Movies or Television along with the corresponding number of which drive it is. Television 3 is about to be bought within the next hour actually.
But like OP said, to each his own. It's just extremely hilarious that you would post on anandtech, which has TONS of articles/reviews on what is optimal to do when you build a PC (Especially a gaming PC) and then OP would turn around and do the EXACT opposite. The PC I built 5 months prior to OPs topic post probably posts higher minimum frame rates and better gaming experience for the same amount (or slightly more since I splurged for my 4770k when I didn't really need it).
But well, I actually read this site and reviews rather than only post here and get my knowledge from joke youtube videos lol.
To be fair though, I really am not a huge 60 FPS/120 FPS minimum person. If it's a SP game, I can game at 30 FPS happily as long as it's synced. I've done more than enough console gaming and I game on a 70 inch HDTV anyway so low response times isn't something I'm used to (newer 70 inch models have lower respone times though. I'm sure his rig offers decent gaming performance if you just want what I consider to be the bare minimum (30 FPS and the ability to set graphics very high). But I don't know why OP would purposely gimp himself when he didn't have to (and in multiple ways) but well, who can understand why people do what they do right?