I've been using AMD products for the better part of a decade and a half.After having a CPU and motherboard failure, long story, I decided to try Intel this time around because I have a Windows 8 tablet with a core i5-2467m and was impressed with its performance so I wanted to see how a newer and more powerful chip would perform on a desktop. I've had previous experience with Intel chips before and have never been quite impressed enough to justify the extra expense, granted this was also ten years ago so you could say I've been a little ignorant in the progress Intel has made in the last decade.
I've been converted with this processor though.The timing of my circumstances restricted me on my purchasing a Haswell processor but I am more than satisfied with my Ivy Bridge set up. I'm not what you would call a "power user." I use my PC mostly for gaming and word processing, excel etc when work requires it. I have reasonable expectations as to what my set up should be able to handle as far as game settings and what not so I don't try to overclock my components, run benchmarks, or partake in the usual pissing contest that has been going on with PCs since the dawn of time. I do however monitor my temps and have a pretty good "butt dyno" for my PC performance. I will say this processor runs cooler and the stock fan is quieter than my old FX-6300 series processor and unexpectedly I also noticed my games are running at a better framerate than they used to even though this has 2 fewer cores and is clocked slower than my old AMD processor. All in all I am very pleased with this purchase and can say that I will probably be buying an Intel processor for my next set up whenever that may be.
| Processor | 3.1 GHz core_i5 |
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