Reply 40 of 53, by LunarG
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Having always been a fan of the underdog, I am genuinely sad to say that these days, I'd go with Intel for CPU almost regardless of price, unless I was skipping on discrete graphics. The "Devil's Canyon" Pentium dual core (G3258 Anniversary Edition) will overclock well without too fancy cooling, and will (from a gaming perspective) outperform anything AMD has to offer up until a price range where you'd want to go with an i5 anyway, and at that point, AMD is left in the dust. In gaming, my six (6) year old first generation i7 (920) (overclocked, but only using a performance heatsink/fan) will outperform an AMD FX9590, which is the pinnacle of AMD performance.
Yes, there are a few exceptions, where AMD actually performs on par with roughly equally priced Intel CPU's, but unfortunately those cases are too rare to really matter. There are also some types of non-gaming workloads AMD excel at, but those are unlikely to come into play in day-to-day usage.
I am not trying to disrespect AMD or AMD owners... I've owned many AMD CPU's over the years myself, but AMD simply hasn't improved their architecture for many years now, and they are being outdistanced.
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