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amd or intel

Erm, I thought AMD is cheaper and offeres more for price?

AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 550 3.10GHz £77 squid

Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.16Gz (E8500) £140 squid

I think its what ever you preffer and benchmarks really.

I used to be an AMD fan boy but not preffer Intel.
 
AMD = gaming
Intel = video editing and other related tasks

oh was it me or did i just see a AMD 545 on overclockers?
 
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Depends on the budget your working too really.
lower budget is normally always AMD though.
 
you want to go DDR2 or DDR3?

DDR2 board Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P AMD 790X

DDR3 board Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX
 
790FX offers more PCI-E slots, but for most users, 790GX will be enough. Crossfire will be in 8x speed but Ive heard it mentioned here that that wont really affect the performance enough for you to notice it.

THat 790GX board is a quality board and if youre looking for a mobo around £100, thats the one to go for. If you want one around £150, that MSI 790FX GD70 is an awesome board.
 
AcidHell2 said:
why are you looking at dual cores.

I7 outperforms everything. However is pricey

The phenom2s are far cheaper and not far behind i7 for gaming but can only be Crossfired and not sli.

So really depends on your budget and what you are doing
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yeah only one board what I know of that can take the latest 955 cpu and that is the 980a so it can take SLI but not on the same mobos meiing its a little annoying, like the LGA775 was on that basis
 
This is business. For the most part, it does not matter which company you pick performance-wise because you'll always get an almost identical performance/price ratio for whatever price. The only extra things to consider are:

1) Depending on what you already have, sticking with one company over a CPU generation usually makes upgrades cheaper.
2) Intel currently offer more powerful CPUs so if the most powerful AMD CPU isn't enough for you, you'll need to go Intel (and obviously pay more).
3) There are "sweet spots", meaning price brackets where the CPUs offer the best overclockability and/or performance to price ratio. However, these sweet spots do not necessarily match between the companies (as a similar example, see Tom's Hardware's monthly "Best Graphics Cards For The Money" articles) so if your budget is strict, the best choice might be clear.
 
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