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Stigma311

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Greetings and Nice to me you all name is Stigma311.

I will like to get some ideas for a prebuild pc ( with out the monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers? and case.}I have a Pc case ready for the parts

the case is ( Thermaltake VL200L1W2Z NVIDIA Edition Black and Green Lining ATX Full Tower Gaming )

the total cost has to between $500 to 600
 
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Intel has a better architecture at the moment, but that is not to say AMD CPUs are horrible by any means. They do great in multi-threaded applications for the price such as live-streaming or editing, but single-threaded performance such as most games will almost always go to Intel. Games are starting to utilize more cores, but having strong cores is also important.

EDIT: Just saw turkey3_scratch's reply. Either way, great reply turkey3_scratch.
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If you're going to build it Christmas I would wait until then to ask for a build. Prices change frequently. Two months from now prices may be very different and the build today may even be outdated with intel bringing their next cpu soon and amd might be launching their next gpu's some time in early 2015.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($184.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-E33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($49.99 @ Mwave)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Superclocked Video Card ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($32.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $536.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-22 19:33 EDT-0400
 
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I agree with gamer1357, prices constantly fluctuate, a build now would not necessarily be the best later. I would suggest asking this question again when you are within the vicinity of the purchasing date. Until then, read up on PCs, do some research. It might be handy down the road when you are ordering your parts.
 
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I see you pick out intel CPU core. Question what will different between intel and amd cpu cores
 
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AMD processors of the same price usually have more but weaker cores. Intel's are much stronger. AMD chips also use about 3X power and consume more heat.
 
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Stigma311

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you learn something new every day. I alway been using amd but i think will change when i go about build pc in the next few months
 
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Intel has a better architecture at the moment, but that is not to say AMD CPUs are horrible by any means. They do great in multi-threaded applications for the price such as live-streaming or editing, but single-threaded performance such as most games will almost always go to Intel. Games are starting to utilize more cores, but having strong cores is also important.

EDIT: Just saw turkey3_scratch's reply. Either way, great reply turkey3_scratch.
 
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