Intel core i5 750 vs. Amd Phenom II X4 965

There are countless theads about this on the first page, just read those.

Yup. And the op made two of the same threads. Delete this please.

I own the AMD Phenom II black Quad; it's been just fine; have read that the Intel equivalent is faster at the margins, and I think the Motherboards made for the processor are greater. In my case the Slot for the DDR3 RAM modules is anchored with a small plastic pressure clip, that FELL OFF and would not hold the DDR3 module into the slot...that lack of pressure prevented system boot.

since all my modules are 4GB DDR3 I just went with 12GB RAM total system memory instead 16 GB RAM.
Live there, because it now at least boots.