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Please help AMD or INTEL for gaming

linktoinsanity said:
I'd recommend going Intel with the 2600K, unless you are on a tight budget. Then take a look at the AMD Llano setup and go for a really good GPU.
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Sorry, I meant the 2500K there.

The post above me is right, AMD Phenom II X4s are a good value CPU for a gaming PC at the moment. Getting one of them with a high end graphics card will do fine for gaming and the money you save on the CPU you can spend on the graphics card if your budget allows.

For performance at the moment, Intel are the Kings, but for a low cost system that will do the job perfectly well, AMD are fine.
 
Tibbz2 said:
No as in Phenom's are like £90-£150 and Intels Sandybridge is now mainly £160+++
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Em...you do realise that even the £90 i3 2100 is on par with/faster than Phenom II X4, and the sub £150 i5 2xxx non-K series walk all over the Phenom II X6 on gaming performance even without the capability to overclock? Not to mention they are low power-comsumption.
 
Tibbz2 said:
No as in Phenom's are like £90-£150 and Intels Sandybridge is now mainly £160+++
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i3s aren't £160+. A Core i3 will outperform a Phenom II X4 in games that can't make use of 4 threads, and will nearly match it in games that can make use of 4 threads too. Plus, it runs cooler, uses a lot less power and doesn't require a third party cooler (which makes them much cheaper, unless you already have one).

When Phenom IIs are no longer produced, AMD will have nothing to really compete with Intel at the £100 price point, unless they can get their FX-6xxx CPUs down to that price.

Currently the only serious gaming option from AMD is Llano, which is for very low budget builds.
 
DragonQ said:
i3s aren't £160+. A Core i3 will outperform a Phenom II X4 in games that can't make use of 4 threads, and will nearly match it in games that can make use of 4 threads too. Plus, it runs cooler, uses a lot less power and doesn't require a third party cooler (which makes them much cheaper, unless you already have one).
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To be more precise, the i3 2100 match the performance of a Phenom II X4 980BE at 3.7GHz even in games that use 4 threads or more such as BFBC2. The Phenom II X4 would only be faster at beyond 3.7GHz in 4 or more thread games, but even then, it will not offer more frame rate over the i3 2100 if only on a single GPU card, since no 4 or more thread game NEED that kind of CPU usage to match the frame rate of GPU bound on a single GPU card, and the little extra performance of the Phenom II X4 clocked beyond 3.7GHz is not enough to not bottleneck a Crossfire/SLI set up.
 
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DragonQ said:
i3s aren't £160+. A Core i3 will outperform a Phenom II X4 in games that can't make use of 4 threads, and will nearly match it in games that can make use of 4 threads too. Plus, it runs cooler, uses a lot less power and doesn't require a third party cooler (which makes them much cheaper, unless you already have one).

When Phenom IIs are no longer produced, AMD will have nothing to really compete with Intel at the £100 price point, unless they can get their FX-6xxx CPUs down to that price.

Currently the only serious gaming option from AMD is Llano, which is for very low budget builds.
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I never said the i3 did I? No.

I said MAINLY £160. Not ALL of them.
 
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