Budget build advice

[Astra.Xtreme]

Then you're reading some different benchmarks than everyone else.

Try harder. Actually, don't.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/AMD-FX-8150-vs-Core-i5-2500K-and-Core-i7-2600K-CPU-Review/1402/18

I'm starting to think you're delusional...

I'll quote the first sentence from the conclusion from the above review:

We can summarize the AMD FX-8150 in one word: "disappointment".

Every other review out there says exactly the same thing, so obviously you have no idea what you are talking about.

You can try to convince yourself all you want, but the proof shows otherwise. There's nothing else that has to be said.

[Wakers]

And you've obviously not applied common sense to the review.. which is comparing the processor against competitors in a general and overall way. The OP has a singular requirement, which just happens to be the singular good use for the FX range. Again, try and get that through your uncommonly dense lobes.

But then again, you seem incapable of applying common sense to anything. There's a lack of basic knowledge, specifically relating to the OP, that you seem unwilling to fill on your own behalf. If you're going to be that ignorant and lazy, then I'm not going to help you.

Instead, please feel free to keep making stupid posts here.

[Astra.Xtreme]

And you've obviously not applied common sense to the review.. which is comparing the processor against competitors in a general and overall way. The OP has a singular requirement, which just happens to be the singular good use for the FX range. Again, try and get that through your uncommonly dense lobes.

But then again, you seem incapable of applying common sense to anything. There's a lack of basic knowledge, specifically relating to the OP, that you seem unwilling to fill on your own behalf. If you're going to be that ignorant and lazy, then I'm not going to help you.

Instead, please feel free to keep making stupid posts here.

I'm not sure if you simply fail at reading comprehension, or just don't know the first thing about processor dynamics. Or maybe you just like to put up an arguement even if you don't have the slightest bit of intelligence on the topic. Your pick...

If YOU actually read the OP, he specifically states Ableton Live will be used. If you do some background research on that program, you'll notice that it is clearly not optimized for multi-core support. And if you had any common sense in your "lobes", you'd at least know that, LIKE I SAID, programs need to be specifically programmed to take advantage of the extra cores. Adding more common sense on top of that, 99% of the CPUs on the market are 4 cores and under. So what incentive does any company have to program support for more than 4 cores at the moment? Please do answer that... Off the top of my head, I know that virtualization programs will kind of take advantage of more than 4 cores (e.g hyper threads on the i7). And like I've said over and over, the difference those extra cores makes is slim to none. I've yet to see any proof from you that the FX has any major benefit over the i5. I've showed you my discreet proof, and yet you are still too dumb to comprehend it...

It's quite sad how dense you are with such a lack of common sense. And you come here and attack me and show absolutely no proof of the crap you are spewing. Now, go outside, get some fresh air, and calm down. You clearly don't have anything intelligent to add and your childish anger is flaring up. It's best you leave and let the adults converse...

[WAQT]

If your friend is able to do all the work you said on his 'ancient' PC, then you can go for something like this

2nd Gen CORE i5 2320 3.0Ghz (very little of a different between 2nd and 3rd gen, considering the end user tasks)

Keep the Gigabyte MB

8GB of RAM

Same Casing

Same PSU

Thrash the SDD (if this is a budget computer why add SSD?)

Total: ~?350

[inactive]

depending on what you need and want to spend you can get a i3-2120 CPU which i think is pretty much the sweet spot especially if your on a budget PC and are trying to keep costs down but performance solid. in USA it only costs $115-125 for it and i am sure it's performance will be plenty for most general uses especially if his PC is old as i upgraded to that from a 6 year old setup (AMD Athlon 3500+ dual core 2.0ghz overclocked to 2.4ghz) almost 2 months ago now and my CPU performance has AT LEAST tripled as maybe as high as 5 times or so based on encoding video with x264.exe etc.

plus the money you save there on CPU could be put towards a SSD etc as it would give you overall better performance going with a i3-2120 CPU paired with a SSD drive than getting a i5 quad core with a regular hard drive.