Amd or Intel rig for doing all purpose things

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sagarkshetri

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Hi All...


After asking a question about my new rig config..to be configured soon
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2987166/build-medium-config-newbie.html

I go another question in mind...

I was also going through some Amd processors and mother board ...and just a though passed that Amd could save me a few bucks than intel.
What about assembling an Amd rig rather than Intel one. I have heard that Amd processor becomes quite hot. Is that the only reason to stick to intel than Amd.
i want my system to atleast last for 5 years...then can think of upgrading.

so Just wanted to ask others who already have an experience in this field...Should i go for Intel or should i also give a look at Amd rig.
Basically my purpose would be to work(programming)(40%)... play games.(by games I mean good games..)(40%)..watch movies(10%)...and others(10%) too...and by this i would basically mean in weekends or Holidays..

Also i have gone through a lot of other sites...some suggests to go for intel others for Amd...

Also is it sure..that amd low cost processors will perform as equal or somewhat near to the i5 6500 that i am gonna build..

If there is already any good topic on this in this forum or elsewhere ...I will be obliged..which I may have missed out and would be a good help...

(i have also to ask this...it is not related to the topic though .... Should I be getting a laptop ...a monitor...and a gaming console..it seems to be the same cost that I do get...This is just a side though..I am still convinced with assembling the desktop. But would be a good help if some one can spec me the downside/updside of this.).

Thanks in advance..
 
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logainofhades
I do not recommend AMD, at this time. FX is over 3yrs old, architecturally, and on a dead platform. They have to be overclocked to compete with Intel, and even then FX can lose to intel, especially in gaming. An i3 6100 can hold its own, and even beat, a decently overclocked FX 83xx series chip, in gaming. AMD's only real strength, right now, is in very few multithreaded situations.
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I do not recommend AMD, at this time. FX is over 3yrs old, architecturally, and on a dead platform. They have to be overclocked to compete with Intel, and even then FX can lose to intel, especially in gaming. An i3 6100 can hold its own, and even beat, a decently overclocked FX 83xx series chip, in gaming. AMD's only real strength, right now, is in very few multithreaded situations.
 
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Intel are so far ahead at the moment that it is actually quite depressing, there aren't many situations where I would recommend AMD at the moment, especially for gaming.

The thing is, games don't take advantage of more than 4 cores and Intel CPU's give more performance per Mhz. (Better single threaded performance.)

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference

That benchmark illustrates it well, the ridiculously overclocked and hot running FX-9590 with 8 cores running at 4.7Ghz is about the same as a Haswell i3 in games. Haswell is 2 generations old now so a Skylake i3 will beat any AMD CPU in games. Also the FX-9590 consumes an insane 220W whereas i3's are like 50-60W.
 
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'' FX is over 3yrs old, '' more like 6 thing is with a amd AM3+ rig it still supports down to windows xp if you were a legacy gamer or had older stuff you still like to run that may not work out on newer os's ? I will admit its getting dated and I see todays needs may be catching up to them . then to be more honest AM3+ is what drove me over to intel for my first time ever in 15 years [been a solid AMD fan boy] heck I used my older 939 and Am2+ more then I did the new AM3+'s I built
skylake stinks and proprietary limited cpu choices may be stranded to win-10 only removed some support for use of 7 lots of issues that a solid tried , true and proven haswell don't have and overall performance is not overwhelming [intel's tic/tock ] skip skylake [opinion]
 
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there all a fail and amd admitted to that as a mistake and its all bulldozer architecture anyway

'' What has hurt AMD is a big bet on a Bulldozer architecture — in which two CPU integer cores share a floating-point unit and other components — that simply didn’t work out. “Everyone knows that Bulldozer was not the game-changing part when it was introduced three years ago,” then-CEO Rory Read said at a Deutsche Bank event. “We have to live with that for four years [through 2015]. .

''We have to live with that for four years [through 2015]. .''
 
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