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AMD CPU and Intel Equivalent?

I'm getting a AMD quad core and I wanted to know what the equivalent to that for intel was and also all the others. because I'm just making sure my decision is the correct one. or is it work paying a little more for an Intel.
 
from testing i have done i would say an athlon II x3 is roughly the equivalent in multi threaded stuff but in single threaded stuff it would take a much higher clocked phenom II to match an i3
 
Does that chart take into account overclocking potential? That's pretty important. Ideally you'd have 4 sections:

- Stock performance
- Stock performance/price
- Average overclock performance
- Average overclock performance/price

Also, why is the 975BE better than a 1090/1100T? I can't see anything special about it (e.g. TDP).
 
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It matters what you want your cpu for, there's a good one in every price range for every application at the moment we are living in good times :) and at the moment i cant think of a current "bad" cpu, the problem is applications are struggling to keep up with hardware and a 4 year old quad can still hold its own :)
 
DragonQ said:
Does that chart take into account overclocking potential? That's pretty important. Ideally you'd have 4 sections:

- Stock performance
- Stock performance/price
- Average overclock performance
- Average overclock performance/price

Also, why is the 975BE better than a 1090/1100T? I can't see anything special about it (e.g. TDP).
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The table is all stock ratings. A stock 975BE generally does better in games than a stock 1100T due to better clock speed and the lack of multhreaded optimisation in most games.
 
I need the CPU to cope with like 7 internet explorers open with perhaps a game, man and/or skype in back ground. But I don't want any lag. I cant stand it. Lol
 
A quad core CPU and an SSD or a fast hard disk would do the job. You can set applications to run on specific cores. In fact in most cases lag happens due to the hard disk being accessed.
 
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