Building a low budget PC. Intel or AMD?

Carlos2109

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Hello Comunity..

I had a HP Desktop with

Intel Core i7 860

ATI Radeon HD 5570

1 TB HHD


I only had it for 4 Days, because I Bought it off the Facebook Store. From a Local Guy, I honestly think that he had no idea what was going to happen after the purchase.

I try to fix it through HP Support but they have no more "parts" for that Model. And my local PC repair shop charges me 450 USD to ge it fixed. I decided to build my own PC.

So far I have in my list

PC Case
500w Power supply
EVGA GForce GT 610
Gigabyte LGA 1150 B85 MOBO

Anyway, I was going to keep the CPU for my new build, but I found out that it is the First gen of the i7

I'm not new on computers, but I want to get an advice from people like you, that know more than I do.

I don't wanna spend to much on this new computer because I'm a family guy now and as you know priorities comes first.

I'm an occasional gamer, I have my PS4 on my living room so I don't play those fancy 3D High Definition Games. I'm more into the old school games like Age of Mythology, Age of Empires, and sometimes Yu-Gi-Oh! Joey the Passion. My most "Power Hungry" game that I have is Medal of Honor, Pacific War.

I am using the PC mostly for Photoshop Editing, Illustrator, Dreameraver. Sometimes I run Photoshop and Ilustrator at the same time

Now.. Do you think that the CPU that I already Have is powerful enough to deliver a good performance on those programs?
Or should I buy a New One?
Is there any AMD Processor with Higher Power for my new Build?

What motherboard should I buy if I decide to buy an AMD Processor?

Thank you for your support and time..
 
Right now the computer processor market is in a "sit and wait" period of time. AMD just released its new Ryzen R7 processors and is going to be releasing R5 and R3 in a few months. The R7s being released now have brought AMD back into the high performance market, however they still have some bugs to work out as the integer performance is lower and expected resulting in FPS hits in games. I fully expect AMD to address this problem and by the time their true gaming processors (the R5 and R3s) hit the market they should be competitive with high end Intel Kaby Lake processors at a fraction the cost.

The best advice that can be given right now is to wait a couple months and see what happens. If AMD can fix its integer / gaming issues when they release the R5 and R3 processors the only thing separating Ryzen from Kaby Lake in gaming may come down to nothing more than clock speed. If the R5 and R3 provide near equal performance to Kaby Lake we may see worthwhile price shifts across the board. Anyone thinking about building a gaming rig right now would do themselves a favor by waiting a couple months and seeing what the prices and performance of the processors will be.
 

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