Custom PC build advise

[Robando]

Very clean build the wire management looks excellent!

All wiring was tucked behind the motherboard and along the back of the vertical rail. It was tedious but I do like to have a tidy rig. Then after all my hard work the HD audio cable was too short to reach the audio header (bottom left on mobo). I contacted Fractal Designs explaining the problem and they sent me a new front panel with a longer HD audio cable.

Most folks think that an AMD 3.7 Ghz processor might seem faster at most everyday things we do with computers compared to say, an i3/3.2 Ghz...; problem is, it usually is not true. (AMD's latest laptops seem to do very well, however) In most benchmarks, the AMD needs to be clocked at 4 Ghz to defeat an Intel i3 at 3.2 GHz, or, approximately so, sometimes a little better, sometimes a little worse.

The AMD FX8350 CPU that I fitted is 4Ghz and is faster than the i3/3.2 Ghz
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i3-550-vs-AMD-FX-8350

Throw any multi-threaded application at the two rival processors and the AMD chip will soon show its dominance in that arena. With the i5 getting around the same sort of figures in Cinebench as the old FX-8150, the new Piledriver chip is a little over 15 per cent quicker. That performance gap gets even bigger when you chuck the HD encoding benchmark of X264 v4.0 at the pair with the FX-8350 getting almost 25 per cent better results than the Intel i5.

In fact, if you take the FX-8350's multi-threaded performance in isolation, it's suddenly getting rather close to the performance of the similarly eight-threaded almighty Core i7 3770K. In Cinebench the AMD chip is only a little over 5 per cent slower, and in X264 there's less than a single per cent difference between them. It's impressive that AMD has managed to close the performance gap this much in the multi-threading stakes.
Full article: http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-components/processors/amd-fx-8350-1110369/review

The FX8350 for me is perfect for what I require and is certainly cheaper than the intel equivalent and probably does a better job with the graphics side.