Low budget, powerful CPU

[Decimus]

Ok, so I'm building my own custom PC, the processors I've been focusing on mostly include Intel, my main thought at the moment was the Intel I7-4790K Processor, recently I started looking into AMD processors though and have found one or two substitutes for like a third of the price of the 4790K but they have less cache. So my main question is, what quad core processors with around 4GHz processing power and a decent amount of cache could I get, preferably keeping the price below £250 please

 

[aeko97]

Ok, so I'm building my own custom PC, the processors I've been focusing on mostly include Intel, my main thought at the moment was the Intel I7-4790K Processor, recently I started looking into AMD processors though and have found one or two substitutes for like a third of the price of the 4790K but they have less cache. So my main question is, what quad core processors with around 4GHz processing power and a decent amount of cache could I get, preferably keeping the price below £250 please

Around that budget I think the best you could get is actually the i7-4790K. It has got "only" 4 cores and 8 threads working at 4 GHz which is a beauty. TDP is reasonably good for its performance (88W). It has all the "Intel goodies" like the Intel Hyper-Threading Technology. Intel CPUs are overall better than AMD when it comes to power consumption / performance, as well as the single-core performance. AMD cores are weaker and on some editions there are "hidden/ghost" cores. In my opinion, Intel is more trustworth despite being more expensive than AMD. Good luck!