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Intel or AMD
dragon_koi
Member Posts: 6
in Hardware
I was thinking of building a new computer, but right now I can't decide if a go for Intel or AMD. Any suggestions?
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What's your budget?
I'd go for intel if you are speaking about performance.
If you're not looking for the latest and greatest, it doesn't matter. You get what you pay for with either, but Intel is leading the speed war, right now. If you're looking for the best $150 processor, they both have plenty of options.
Agree with the above, it's all about the budget. All in all, for gaming, they are so competitive that there is little difference between the two in game performance and almost no difference in available motherboard features or compatibility.
What matters most before a budget is a mission. If you wish to play a certain game, then what game? Are you planning on playing one game over the long term or many games over the short term? These are things I consider before I even think about "money" and "builds" because unlike consoles where you can spend money and not have a loss of an investment, a lot can go wrong in building a PC.
Freedom of Choice means you are responsible for the choices you make and the advice you take. If you plan on playing singleplayer games, then you can survive maintaining 30 FPS minimum...since the entire game itself slows down to the framerate in a singleplayer game. If you plan on playing multiplayer games in realtime, you must stay at 60 FPS or above at all times to avoid a frameskip from occuring.
The second thing you should ask yourself is if its wise to ask people in an MMO forum that has both a console population and a PC population about computer advice considering the biases which occur in gaming forums. At least in a pure computer forumboard you actually have the central discussion about computers and their parts.
Currently, I would say Intel... Core i7 if you can.
Intel is faster but AMD is fast enough. The graphics card is more important. Dont waste money on one of the fastest cpu:s.
Buy a model with a good price/performance ratio. Amd or Intel... Both will be fine
More or less true.
Put what you can on of the budget to get a good GFX card, if you after that still afford a good processor you should go for it but I rather have a average processor and great GFX card than the other way around, it will give you a lot more for the money.
Intel is better and more expensive.
Any of 100+$ will do, its graphic card that matters, CPU has little impact on that, uless you play few specific games where you can notice some difference.
if you build 6 core either are good ,so would go with amd .just make sure you get a good mobo cause some amd mobo are lazy and various update wont be there aside from that i have a amd and it work great.i have issue with priority stuff and all but i have a x2 550 so 2 core are disabled .so i would steer clear of amd disabled core thing.you cant put tree proc from amd for one top of the line intel so i bet 3 amd will still beat intel (grin)