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Coming back to all this.. amd still the loser for £150 in games?

£150 would get you a decent Intel CPU. AMD GPUs wouldn't work any better with AMD CPUs than they would Intel CPUs.

Do you also need a motherboard included in that £150?
 
Hmm, I'm not so sure - once up to i5 etc I'd say Intel are clear winners but at £150 just now on OCUK you're limited to an i3, I'd take an 8320E over an i3 any day, particularly as that leaves room in the budget for a decent mobo and cooler to get a good clock rate out of it.

Edit: Hah, 8320E out of stock on here, d'oh! For £100 it was a bargain, but only if it's actually available to purchase...
 
Well, Intel give you more room for future upgrades.
There are some nice buncles at OCukl, but nowhere near 150, closer to 300.
I would choose an Intel over AMD anytime :)
Most games are cpu bound anyway, so hyperthreading wins.
 
Most games are GPU bound and hyperthreading makes very little difference to games, i5's can match i7s in most situations. Quite a few tools make good use of hyperthreading but games really are not among them.
 
Well the next hope of a powerful CPU from AMD will be the Zen CPU/APUs and they are probably more than a year away, doubt they will be cheap either.

It's not just about CPU power also, intel get the feature rich motherboards, which I personally covert more than raw CPU power.
 
As David said, for £100 there is no intel option better than AMD's offering. I do not understand the upgrade idiology in post #5, either spend more and get a £300+ i5 based system buying decent components from the off or dont bother.

The FX option is old hat- not a great scenario to be in, however having that cpu with a good GPU is better than an i3 (mentioned earlier) and better than a poor GPU but splashing out on an i5 system.

Declaring your overall budget would be better than rumblings on about choice of CPU.
 
The amd fx 6300 looks like a good buy, 6 cores will help with gaming and some applications? And then you can maybe add an AIO cooler to keep the temps down :) I have an i5 4690k which is good but my friend still gets the same kind of fps and quality I get when using an amd a8 6600k
 
Built my mate an amd rig December last year. 8350 8 core seems a fairly decent processor for the money.

Decent cooler on it and its a winner.
 
eatmykeyboard said:
The amd fx 6300 looks like a good buy, 6 cores will help with gaming and some applications? And then you can maybe add an AIO cooler to keep the temps down :) I have an i5 4690k which is good but my friend still gets the same kind of fps and quality I get when using an amd a8 6600k
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It's three cores with CMT.

It only has three bulldozer modules, and three floating point units. Games tend to be FP intensive.
 
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