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No-one should be suggesting AMD to be honest. The i3 is the best bang for buck CPU at £100. I'll post a link to compare the i3 (£90ish)with an AMD FX 8150 (£180ish).
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/289?vs=434
You can see the i3 does well whilst being much cheaper and it consumes less power, note the game benchmarks at the bottom of the list where it actually wins. The i3 also has quicksync over the pentium G CPU. AMD might do better for media encoding but if you use software that can support quicksync the AMD advantage is negated. Oh i nearly forgot, the i3 is a dual core but has hyperthreading which helps it perform as well as AMDs quadcores.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.95
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 700W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £40.99
1 x Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PXD38G1600LLK) £39.95
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
Total : £486.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).
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