For wow/mmo type cpu intense games yes

my i3 3220 does not perform better than my 8350.

with that logic, OP might as well go Pentium g3258 route, and OC it.

Do you even play wow?

yeah played it when the xpac came out with friends until we got to lvl 100, with full bg gear and kept getting rekt by pros

do you? or do you just look at benchmarks all day?
cos really, ur pretty much recommending the OP to get a g3258 since it performs just as good as i5's when OC'd. amirite?

?Pretty much? Thats assuming, assumptions are for bitches

Answer me this. Wow cpu intense or gpu intense?

Does wow benefit much from highend gpus

If you can switch 750$
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/PKw24D


If you cant
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/grK9vK

I'll look into it.


I wouldn't mind going a tad over if going intel is a big upgrade.



You can take out the monitor and OS. monitor isn't to important atm, and Im pretty sure I could get a OS somewhere.

Will most likely buy tonight after I look the builds over tonight when I get home.
Also, these builds would be able to keep pretty good graphics with streaming movies and playing with two monitors right?

CPU intense, but what's your point? still living in the 90's?
just cos a 10+ year old game is CPU intensive, u don't go for a dual core.
I rather have an all around build with smoother feel when using 2 monitors to play games & whatever on the other screen.

Also, you're making it sound like AMD cpu's aren't capable of running CPU intensive games like sc2 and WoW
Doesn't it tell you sth when AMD stopped making new gen CPU's & people still buy them? Yeah, AMD/Intel CPUs are so overkill that few gen old CPU can still satisfy its customers enough for them to still buy em.

@OP any of those builds will do what you want,
the intel build will give you the best results, but it will cost you more, can't be OC'd unless ur experienced/don't mind the hassle, not a fan of asrock anniversary board either.
just don't go for a dual core pentium/i3, even though they'll still easily play WoW, it's gonna feel gay when u do other things while gaming.

if u dont mind going overbudget, i'd prefer this than the other build i linked, if ur planning to OC without breaking too much $$$
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3PgMrH

This post was edited by Secksii on Feb 18 2015 06:42am

replace

..everything lol