Intel or AMD? :S

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Hey everyone, i'm looking to upgrade my Mobo and CPU but i don't know which CPU i want to pick... should i choose my Mobo first or doesn't matter? I'm going to use it strictly for gaming purposes. i'm hoping to spend no more than $450 on it all. Can you suggest a best bang for your buck? like i7 over i5? or go for the AMD lineup as it's cheaper... Overclocking is a skill that i lack but i'm sure i could pick up so maybe count that as a factor? help!! thanks :D
 
if you want to go with a budget build, amd is the way to go. intel will most likely always have the best cpus, but amd will most likely always have the cheapest.
 
Wait, you have $450 for JUST a cpu and motherboard? Or to build an entire new rig? Do you have DDR3 ram now? What do you have now that you are upgrading from?
 
joh06937 said:
if you want to go with a budget build, amd is the way to go. intel will most likely always have the best cpus, but amd will most likely always have the cheapest.
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Always? Might want to recheck that. At any rate, that quote of yours is wrong on about 5 different levels.

As it stands now though, Intel has the very top-end in performance and AMD has the price/performance. If you have $450 to spend on only a cpu + mobo, I would go intel for sure. And yeah, would you need memory too?
 
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joh06937 said:
pretty sure that is almost exactly what i said :confused:
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No, you essentially said that Intel will likely ALWAYS have the best cpus and AMD the cheapest. Which also implies that it has always been so in the past as well, which is obviously false. This with the Bulldozer vs Sandy Bridge thing coming up in the future, which is uncertain at best as of now, and if anything favors AMD.

I had and have no desire to divert this thread in any way, just had to say something to that very broad and very false statement of yours. People that don't know much about computers often read generalizations like that and it becomes part of their limited computer knowledge. (that's bad)

If I didn't know much about computers, I would read that original quote of yours exactly how it is written. That Intel makes more expensive, but the best cpus and AMD makes the cheapest (aka they are crappy). That's like early AMD days right there, and far from the actual truth of how it currently is. Which basically boils down to: both Intel and AMD make high quality cpus, Intel holds the very top-end for performance, and AMD tends to be the better route for price/performance.
 
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notabasketweaver said:
No, you essentially said that Intel will likely ALWAYS have the best cpus and AMD the cheapest. Which also implies that it has always been so in the past as well, which is obviously false. This with the Bulldozer vs Sandy Bridge thing coming up in the future, which is uncertain at best as of now, and if anything favors AMD.

I had and have no desire to divert this thread in any way, just had to say something to that very broad and very false statement of yours. People that don't know much about computers often read generalizations like that and it becomes part of their limited computer knowledge. (that's bad)
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i guess i did word it differently than i really meant it. i do agree that it hasn't always been that way. i was just saying that for now, it seems like intel will keep the performance crown they have now (obviously we won't know until the next generations come out). hopefully amd will outperform and stay less expensive with the sandy bridge vs. bulldozer match-up...
 
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