[TheEditor]

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache=$225

VS

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3=$140

THE 2500 is a great chip but if you buy one of the boards i have posted you will have more headroom...if you just look the system in my sig and replaced the MB with the one i posted you would be at about $550 AND be able to do some major upgrades in a year ...as my system sits now i will be able to add another 5750 and an X6 in about 6-8 months for around $150-75 and get another year+ out of it .

You can only "future proof" so much but a GOOD MB is key to this.

S!

I was always one for a good performance/money buyer. 2500k blows everything out the water! It even ties up with a 980 gulftown! Look...i would be with the rest of the IL-2 AMD fanboys but look at lots of benchmark sites then check price.

Nobody knows what bulldozer is going to do. How long has AM3+ been out? 1155 socket is still going to work with Ivy Bridge( a 22nm version of sandy bridge) due out end of the year.