Hi its update time and I've decided to rebuild my old desktop but I bought a laptop a few years back and thus havent kept up with developments in component tech (since the only reason I ever did was to keep up with upgrades but obviously you cant upgrade a laptop .. .. never again).
I need a little help picking out a decent cpu. I have about £100 to spend on it and at the moment I'm looking at the AMD Bulldozer 4100 quad core cpu. The other option I've come across in the same price range is the Intel Core i3 dual core. As I said I'm looking at buying the bulldozer atm since from what I read its performance isnt to different to the i3 and the 2 extra cores could come in handy should I decide to use the desktop for any media production work (I occassionally do videos for youtube and I make songs for a hobby) but gaming comes first here so from a purely gaming point of view how do the Bulldozer 4100 and the Core i3 compare? Any other suggestions would be appreiciated
Plus although I'm a hardcore gamer I'm not really into over clocking
I've also been recommened that the AMD Phenom X4 960T is a better choice than the FX-4100 for gaming and in general. Thoughts?
Thanks
I need a little help picking out a decent cpu. I have about £100 to spend on it and at the moment I'm looking at the AMD Bulldozer 4100 quad core cpu. The other option I've come across in the same price range is the Intel Core i3 dual core. As I said I'm looking at buying the bulldozer atm since from what I read its performance isnt to different to the i3 and the 2 extra cores could come in handy should I decide to use the desktop for any media production work (I occassionally do videos for youtube and I make songs for a hobby) but gaming comes first here so from a purely gaming point of view how do the Bulldozer 4100 and the Core i3 compare? Any other suggestions would be appreiciated
Plus although I'm a hardcore gamer I'm not really into over clocking
I've also been recommened that the AMD Phenom X4 960T is a better choice than the FX-4100 for gaming and in general. Thoughts?
Thanks