Jas, there are two budget Trinity motherboards available. Here are they:-
Pure Budget: MSI FM2-A55M-E33 @ 3.5K
VFM: Asus F2A55-M LK PLUS @ 4.65K, F2A55-M LE @ 5.1K
Basic Performance: Asus F2A85-M-LE @ 5.725K
Performance: Asus F2A85-M @ 6.67K
I was doing some analysis about A10-5800K based config and found out that right now i3 3220 based configuration does not make any sense, in terms of gaming, IGP performance and multi-threaded apps. Sharing my reasons:-
Currently A10-5800K + F2A55-M LK PLUS combo will cost you around (8.4K + 4.65K) = 13.05K, (13.05 - 7.5 - 4.3) = 1.25K higher than i3 3220 + gigabyte B75 Motherboard combination. So I am trying to justify the 1.25K price difference.
Gaming Performance
1. You will get very strong IGP performance which is way better than HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2500 are simply not a match for it. Actually it will give you performance of a HD 5670 DDR3 version, a 4.3K Graphics card.
2. Gaming performance wise both the CPU are same at 1600X900 and 1920X1080P resolution which most of the people use now a days.
3. Just for playing games with minimum FPS, you need to invest at least 4K with the Intel config for a dedicated Graphics card. On the other hand the AMD based configuration offers good FPS in most of the games with medium settings. Also GPU up to HD 6670 can be added to boost the performance in DX11 titles which are very common now a days.
4. Now we have seen lots of games, specially the Multi-player versions are getting Multi-Core optimized and BF3 MP is a perfect example. Here the quad core 5800K can really shine.
5. 5800K can easily be overclocked to match the performance of i3 3220. although in expense of higher power consumption. So even if you're planning for a medium end discrete GPu like 650 ti or HD 7850/660Ti, A10-5800K still holds its ground and against i3.
CPU Performance
1. 5800K has very comparable single threaded performance, although slightly lower than i3 3220.
2. In most of the Multi-threaded benchmarks, 5800K is ahead of i3 3220.
3. i3 3220 lacks the AES instruction set support and on those kind of apps, 5800K is exceptionally good compared to its rival.
4. In Photoshop, 5800K is faster and due to its OpenCl acceleration, it can take advantage of Photoshop filters with OpenCL acceleration support.
5. In day to Day compression apps like 7Z 5800K is really ahead and in Winzip, 5800K again shines due to OpenCL acceleration.
6. As 5800K is unlocked, it can be overclocked to increase the performance.
7. It has huge number of advanced instruction set supports like AES, AVX, FMA4 and FMA3, AMD XOP (SSE 5.1 from AMD) completely missing in i3 3220 (apart from AVX). So future apps can take advantage of those instructions
Jas, have a look and share your opinion. I also like to see the opinion from other members.