Don't forget you need a new motherboard

The value of AMD 8320 is very good, but in longer term crunching perspective it is slightly diminishing: i7-3770 TDP is 77W while AMD 8320 is 125W.

Cheers

Get this.....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113306
Not bad price for 16 core processor.

I've been an AMD supporter since the 486s

I just bought 4 computers (I've built them since the 1980s, have 2 sheds full of parts,. but bought these for relatives living a 5 hour drive away so HP and Dell can do their Support

2 are AMD FX-8350 processor (I have both AMDs running at 4.2 GHz stable)
1 is Intel 3rd gen i7-3770
1 is Intel 3rd gen i7-3770K

At first all 4 computers had ati/amd HD 7570 with 1 GB GDDR3 Ram 600-650 mhz clock 800 mhz ram PCIE 2.1 video cards

the 2 AMD motherboards only support PCIe version 2, the Intel boards support PCIe version 3

I got a couple (One at 880 MHz GPU and 1125 MHz Ram, other with 800 MHz GPU and 1125 MHz RAM) Both are AMD HD 7750 PCIe version 3 with 1 GB GDDR5 Ram video cards and put one in a AMD PCIe 2.0 computer and one in an Intel PCIe 3.0 computer


Findings:

The AMD computers with the 7570 Video cards average 275 watts at the wall, turn in an average of 130 results a day

The Intel computers with the 7570 Video cards average 175 watts at the wall, turn in an average of 140 results a day (A LOT LESS ELECTRICITY USED- and less heat)



The AMD computers with the 7750 Video cards average 295 watts at the wall, turn in an average of 250 results a day

The Intel computers with the 7750 Video cards average 195 watts at the wall, turn in an average of 320 results a day (A LOT LESS ELECTRICITY USED- and less heat


that's my results
the two AMD computers are going to be Christmas gifts to an uncle and cousin who run BOINC for here on computers I built long ago which turn in a result a day now. but use the same electricity as the intels do turning in 320 results a day ..

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Findings on 1-7-3770 3.4 GHz vs 3770K 3.5 Ghz ($200 more for the K version )

According to cpu-z the 3770 is running at 3695 MHz
the 3770K I overclocked with a 42 multiplier and it's running at 4,189 MHz

On the slower 3770 I overclocked the 7750 video card ( gigabyte overclocked to 880 MHz,I oc'd to 885 MHz and ...


If I had it to do over again ... I"d build

intel 3rd gen 1-7 3770 (locked but $200 cheaper only 20 or so results a day difference)
AMD 7750 or better video card (more than makes up 100 or more results per day)

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Windows 8 issue

I had trouble on one Windows 8 computer where BOINC refused to autostart startup after a restart reboot

putting in Startup folders did not remedy the issue

FIXED:
to solve problem I opened task scheduler (not task manager, not msconfig, not startup folders)

Create a task on startup or at logon ... have it run Boincmgr

I spent two weeks and was about to format and reinstall Windows 8 ,... but that task scheduler fixes the not auto starting startup issue in Windows 8... so I'm happy now

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