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Well i'm about to buy a pc.. i found a quad core amd apu (A8 5600K) it's not cheap here as you can't find a amd cpu so easily... the amd apu is $133 usd... when it should be $99 on the other hand i found a intel i3 4130($124) dual core... so what is the best for gaming
(my other specs GTX 750 Ti still don't know about the motherboard and 4gb of ram plus 1tb and a 450 watt psu)
 
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I think you should definately go for the i3. This is because the AMD A8 will be a bigger bottleneck than the i3. The AMD comes with better integrated graphics, but the problem is that the integrated graphics use up a lot of the space in the CPU, so the processor will not be as good. Though the AMD has more cores, right now not a lot of games use more than 4 cores. There are a couple, but right now you should worry about PER CORE performance rather than number of cores, because of your budget. The i3 will perform better in more games than the A8. If you can afford it, I really suggest atleast an i5 for gaming or an FX 6300, because they have better per core peformance and mores cores. FYI I'm not an Intel fanboy :p.

Also correct me if...
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Well right now the thing i would be mostly gaming on the pc and everyone keeps saying "No take that" "oh no man you should take this" "nooo i think this is way better" so yeah i'm really just confused so you are saying the i3 is better for gaming?
 
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I think you should definately go for the i3. This is because the AMD A8 will be a bigger bottleneck than the i3. The AMD comes with better integrated graphics, but the problem is that the integrated graphics use up a lot of the space in the CPU, so the processor will not be as good. Though the AMD has more cores, right now not a lot of games use more than 4 cores. There are a couple, but right now you should worry about PER CORE performance rather than number of cores, because of your budget. The i3 will perform better in more games than the A8. If you can afford it, I really suggest atleast an i5 for gaming or an FX 6300, because they have better per core peformance and mores cores. FYI I'm not an Intel fanboy :p.

Also correct me if I'm wrong about the space inside the APU thing, thats what I read somewhere.
 
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