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disolitude on 12 September 2013
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CGI-Quality said:
disolitude said:
Lol...I really don't get why everyone is saying go intel?

Not everyone is spending $1000+ dollars on a PC. There should be a rule around here saying that people who haven't used AMD CPUs and tested games, shouldn't give CPU advice.

If you're building a rig under a 500-600 dollars, AMD FX processors are more than a viable option.
Something like the FX-6300 for $120 and an MSI G46 SLI/Crossfire motherboard for 80 bucks will beat anything Intel at same price range. Especially since you can overclock any AMD processor to 4.5 Ghz.

I'd personally try to stretch my budget to about $600 and I'd get:
FX6300 - $120
MSI G46 mobo - $80
8 GB of RAM - $70
Small 64 GB SSd for boot/1TB for storage - $100
Good brand name PSU - $50
GTX 660 - $180

These prices are what we have in Canada, don't know what its like where you live...

You can add another GTX 660 down the road when you have for SLI as long as you get a decent 600Watt PSU.

In fairness, he just gave us a budget. I thought he was working with much more than $500 for the proc. But, really, sdince the mid 2000s, Intel has been better, and with that, I would suggest the best.


Been better in what? Yes top intel CPU beats top AMD cpu... but not everyone buys the top level gear.   The money you can save by using AMD CPUs to get the performance you need and not overspend on something you don't you can invest in things like SSd's and better GPUs. To me getting more for your money is the better option as long as you get the performance you need...

In terms of building a rig for gaming, any gaming rigs under 1000 dollars make a very good case for AMD CPUs. AMD CPU performance tops out at around 3570k with the FX8350 and if you observe gaming performance after 3570k, its diminishing returns all the way. 

Once you get in to SLI, multimonitors then Intel starts being a better investment but with most games that came out in the last 2 years and beyond, any quad core AMD can do the job fairly well as long as its single 1080p screen gaming.

Few months ago I was briefly using a Radeon HD 7950 from my main rig with an Athlon X4 645 that was in my media PC for shits and giggles, and for something like Tomb Raider, Bioshock infinite, Max Payne...@1080p, GPU is still the main bottleneck.