Building a new pc

[JG14_Jagr]

Originally Posted by Spartan

As far as the CPU goes, get the best you can afford. For me, that was AMD, and I'm very pleased. My 955BE does 3.6GHz without touching the voltages and the CPU and Motherboard cost me under $300 USD. In terms of price/performance, you can't beat an AMD system right now. However, if you can afford an i5 or i7 2X00, by all means go for it.

an i5 2500K costs $200 It certainly is more bang, and far more bang for the buck at roughly 2/3rds the price of the AMD. The Sandy Bridge MSI board is a single button press OC solution that is an outstanding game platform..

I've used both AMD and Intel before.. I always chose the best bang for the investment...and right now you can fanboy all you want, the i5 2500K and the i7 2600K are the best choices.. personally I'd go i5 but your mileage may vary