Spec me a good gaming motherboard and cpu from AMD side...

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That will go together with d 14 cooler, haf x case, corsair 750w psu, kingston 1600mhz mem, m4 ssd, 570 gfx please.

I am trying to build my rig as ethical as possible avoiding fox con men...

AMD is not made by them and their flagship fx 8150 is only about 10% slower than i2500k...

Is it possible to have something equal i2500k and asus p8z68 v on AMD side please?

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The 8170 is supposed to be out "Q1 this year". But thats supposed to be a bit better than the existing bulldozers. It might just be worth getting a cheap phenom II for now an wait for piledriver later in the year.
 
If it is for gaming, then I strongly advise against going down the AMD path, especially when you are starting a new build from scratch.

i5 2500K can easily overclock from 3.3GHz to 4.5~4.6GHz effortlessly with only little voltage increase; Bulldozer on the other hand overclocking to 4.6-4.8GHz would consume something like 150-250W extra over the i5 2500K at the same frequency, so not only would you need a much beefier CPU cooler, it will make your PC much hotter as a whole and add to the energy cost as well. Also, comparing to Bulldozer the i5 2500K has vastly superior single-thread performance, meaning that in game that uses 3 cores or less it will deliver much more reliable performance. If you play mmos, the Bulldozer will make you keep pulling your hair screaming "why my GTX570 is having so low GPU usage and my frame rate is so crap!?"

Another thing to consider is IvyBridge will be out soon (rumours to be roughly 15% faster than the SandyBridge's counterparts), so it is likely that SandyBridge CPUs' prices will fall as a result as well.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
If it is for gaming, then I strongly advise against going down the AMD path, especially when you are starting a new build from scratch.

i5 2500K can easily overclock from 3.3GHz to 4.5~4.6GHz effortlessly with only little voltage increase; Bulldozer on the other hand overclocking to 4.6-4.8GHz would consume something like 150-250W extra over the i5 2500K at the same frequency, so not only would you need a much beefier CPU cooler, it will make your PC much hotter as a whole and add to the energy cost as well. Also, comparing to Bulldozer the i5 2500K has vastly superior single-thread performance, meaning that in game that uses 3 cores or less it will deliver much more reliable performance. If you play mmos, the Bulldozer will make you keep pulling your hair screaming "why my GTX570 is having so low GPU usage and my frame rate is so crap!?"

Another thing to consider is IvyBridge will be out soon (rumours to be roughly 15% faster than the SandyBridge's counterparts), so it is likely that SandyBridge CPUs' prices will fall as a result as well.
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That has convinced me to get i2500k despite the blood stains of the manufacture process fox con men underwent to make this chip. Thanks
 
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