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I would suggest an intel build to be honest with you (depending on what you intend to use the PC for), while yes they are pricey, there not as expensive as people make them out to be, as that is one of the "biggest" counter arguments. In my PC gaming time I have owned 3 AMD CPU's and 1 Intel CPU, I still own that same Intel CPU. Each AMD CPU I've owned, either just couldn't give me enough performance and the other two failed within a year, not kidding!!
AMD's architecture is less restrictive and will try and outperform itself, but by doing this it can cause the CPU to lower its life span. AMD is better for mulit-tasking, e.g. having several applications running at the same time. However, when it comes to power per core, Intel has always won, and will always win. Although, AMD have made some nice improvements over the past couple of years. Even though AMD can deal with multi-tasking, this is not to say Intel's CPU's doesn't either, just the higher tier AMD CPU's can have the upper hand in the aspect of multi-tasking.
So you need to look at your options here, are you wanting to have resilient build for just gaming? Go for Intel, they outperform AMD in single core calculations and in turn give better, smoother performance. AMD tend to chuck a lot of cores into there CPU and use that for their marketing, but games (at this point in time) haven't been optimised well enough to use all cores, especially not 8 cores! So if you get a 8 core AMD CPU for gaming, you've made a mistake, games can only utilise at best 4 cores. Now if those 4 cores are weak or not strong, then you won't get the most out of it. This is how Intel can give you better FPS and render rates in games, because at its core, the Intel's power per core is stronger. If your main focus is gaming, then I recommend intel, and this is from a user who has owned AMD for about 7 years and has eventually switched to Intel, and only been using Intel for nearly 3 years.
This is not to say AMD can't deliver a good experience, where it gets interesting is when it comes to multi-tasking. If you have an eight core AMD compared to a fast 4 core i5, you'd automatically think that because Intel's per core power is stronger, it would win in something like video editing/rendering. Well this isn't necessarily the case, Intel will still do well, but AMD has 8 cores, and all 8 cores will be dedicated to video rendering, instead of 4. Unlike games, Adobe Premier or something similar doesn't have those core restrictions as mentioned on gaming. It will try and utilise as many cores as the CPU has to offer, and when it comes to this, 8 cores will be better than 4. So for general video editing, multi-tasking and a fairly good experience in gaming, then AMD is for you, but keep in mind with gaming, FPS tends to drop a lot more with AMD CPU's, whereas intel is more stable.
Both AMD and Intel are great, and I don't understand why some people on here get into big arguments about it! It's good for us (the consumers), two battling companies, giving us more CPU options and at competitive prices! If it was just one giant company making CPU's, then they could charge a bomb for half the performance and no-one could argue or compare the price! Think what you'll need the PC for, and I am sure you will make the right choice for you. Any suggestions on parts, I can try and recommend some for either a Intel or AMD build.
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