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Help me choose one of these cpus?

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October 7, 2014 10:36:17 AM

Hello! I'm helping my friend build a decent gaming pc and was wondering if i should choose an Intel Pentium G3440 or an AMD Athlon II 760K to pair up with a gtx 760. I'm usually an intel guy (i'm running a 4790k currently) but i hear amd has more bang for buck performance which is kind of what i need for this price range, thanks guys.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

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October 7, 2014 10:47:10 AM

They perform nearly the same, the athlon is better in some things, and the intel in others, if he doesn't plan to upgrade get the athlon, if he plans to get another cpu in the future to use a stronger video card, get the pentium.
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October 7, 2014 11:06:26 AM

4 o 4 said:
Hello! I'm helping my friend build a decent gaming pc and was wondering if i should choose an Intel Pentium G3440 or an AMD Athlon II 760K to pair up with a gtx 760. I'm usually an intel guy (i'm running a 4790k currently) but i hear amd has more bang for buck performance which is kind of what i need for this price range, thanks guys.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...


I'd go with the Pentium and a Z97 board. Z97 will cost more, but it will allow for a much better upgrade path into an i5 or i7 (Haswell or Broadwell) if he decides to upgrade in the future.

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October 16, 2014 1:28:44 AM

It depends on what you want to do, if you want to render videos at all or multitask with 3+ programs, for example, Google Chrome, Skype, Steam, Recording software, then get the AMD chip, if you prefer to have 1 to 2 light programs and/or 1 main program in the foreground like a game, get the Intel chip.
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