What is a good gaming CPU?

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Dertie

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I'm building my first rig and right now I have chosen an AMD 8-core but I'm unsure wether or not that is the best for gaming. Truthfully I only have it selected because it has the most cores.

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Most games aren't very good at taking advantage of multiple cores. Single threaded performance is much more important in most cases. In short, the Core i5 comfortably beats the AMD chips in gaming and are considered the best CPUs for gaming.

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Most games aren't very good at taking advantage of multiple cores. Single threaded performance is much more important in most cases. In short, the Core i5 comfortably beats the AMD chips in gaming and are considered the best CPUs for gaming.

 
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In truth the FX-8350 can keep up with a i5 3570K in every game with no problem what so ever. I have a FX-8350 based rig as well as a i5 3570K and there is nothing my i5 rig can do that my FX rigs can't. The only reason I even built a i5 rig was to run OS X otherwise I would not even have built one. There was really no reason to do so for gaming as the two FX rigs i already had could handle every game there is and still can.
 
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Wisecracker

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You are going to have to do better than Anand's Intel Propaganda. And, your definition of dominate must be different than mine ...

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XBit Labs: AMD FX-8350, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300: All Vishera Processors in One Review!

But, feel free to keep deluding yourself to justify over-paying for a processor.

 
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You don't like Anand? Then what about Tom's:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-processor-frame-rate-performance,3427-9.html

AMD's processors do come closer to Intel's last-gen and Ivy Bridge-based Core i3s. Indeed, the FX-8350, FX-6300, and FX-4300 are nipping at the entry-level Intel chip.

So according to Tom's the FX chips can't even match the Core i3, never mind the i5.


 
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