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Nope. My Athlon II X2 240 is still a great CPU. I really don't think those who have i7's and i5's use more than 30% of their power anyway.
Running a 3570k with a 7850. My money is probably better spent getting a 7870XT/7950 and a larger SSD. Haswell speed boost is easily compensated by my slightly higher OC ability and @4.2 right now, no need to push it further for a single card setup
From what I can understand about the 'Iris' chips is they are going to be expensive, embedded and probably in commodity boxes, whether laptop, desktop, whatever. As the performance of the video portion was to be the 'killer', I was underwhelmed. Dollar for dollar, these things aren't going to do well.
My budget leads me around by the nose. I follow where it leads. No changing to this or any other i3, i5 or i7 chips. If I were to be building sa current set up for myself, I would probably get a nice fast Richland desktop loaded with RAM and couple of drives. I have modest needs and as to the gaming question, what kind of hardware do you really need ot run GZDoom or any of those nice ports? Can it run Solitaire? Aimp? Foobar 2000? Firefox? Thunderbird? Skype? Wordpad? I am pretty certain these are the real things people do these days. AMD chips can do these things. Do I need a dedicated video card? Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell. I am convinced 'Iris' isn't coming soon to anything near me.
Nice and congrats.Doing it right now. I have all the major parts bought. Most importantly I got the 4770k. Still waiting on ASUS to get the Maximus VI Extreme to market.
Nice and congrats.
Out of curiosity, what are you upgrading from?