| Slimebeast said: We should all be supporting AMD now. No recommendations of Intel CPUs or Nvidia grafix cards are allowed when people ask for advice on buying new hardware. |
Noble sentiments and I have considerable sympathy with your motives. Unfortunately I make recommendations as a professional and the simple truth is that AMD makes nothing remotely comparable in performance to the high end Intel CPUs especially the Core i7. They represent a good value for those on a budget but they just can't deliver the same level of performance.
Taking Crysis as one example at 1680 x 1060, the best AMD score is 22nd from the top, below the several standard Core 2 Duo CPUs let alone Quads, Quad extremes and Core i7. It's the difference between 163 FPS and 112. For World in Conflict it is the difference between 218 FPS and 103. That's more than double the performance. That's a performance gap that is just too big to ignore and give reputable professional advice.
The situation is better in GPUs but they aren't actually part of the dispute.
