AMD or Intel?

imhiya · 15 Jan 2010 at 03:31

I will be using my radeon 4850's in crossfire on either of these builds

AMD - £320
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair 1600 mhz
Asus M4A79XTD EVO
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE

Intel - £350
Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair 1600 mhz
ASRock P55 Extreme

My thinking is either of them i want to overclock, but the amd one i could get a lot better cpu cooler for..?

This machine will be used for general use and gaming.

Shakeel · 15 Jan 2010 at 03:45

id id go for the amd (my opinion)

AMG · 15 Jan 2010 at 08:48

AMD for gaming, intel for everything else, not saying AMD can't do it just saying it might be a bit slower than intel in some windows usage

imhiya · 15 Jan 2010 at 13:04

Hmm what would be better for overclocking? i hear a lot of rumours amd not being able to reach 4ghz, why is this?

Disjunto · 15 Jan 2010 at 13:08

either of them will be fine for whatever you want to do. They're very similar performance wise, although I would probably got for the i5 (yes, I know I have pretty much the same AMD setup)

imhiya · 15 Jan 2010 at 13:22

I'm most likely going to go for the i5 as the mobo with crossfire is cheaper and i found the i5 750 much cheaper than the x4 965

thevet · 15 Jan 2010 at 13:23

intel

Tweaker · 15 Jan 2010 at 13:45

Go for Intel, should be able to clock that chip quite high

R088ieS86 · 15 Jan 2010 at 13:49

intel!! the 750 can reach 4Ghz quite nicely :cool:

imhiya · 15 Jan 2010 at 14:05

Bought :O i5 750 build. + a cpu cooler

Total 331.84

R088ieS86 · 15 Jan 2010 at 14:09

sweet.

which CPU cooler did you go for? let me know how it works out because im about to do an i5 build and am wondering on a cooler.

imhiya · 15 Jan 2010 at 20:10

R088ieS86 said:
sweet.
which CPU cooler did you go for? let me know how it works out because im about to do an i5 build and am wondering on a cooler.

I chose the Cooler Master Hyper 212 as i heard decent things about it, specially for the price.