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are you still into jet yes okay really you sorry I don't have air radar I don't have lock-on you know what I have never get any good Gatling gun hey you're watching Jays to sense where the advice is always free and today we're gonna go ahead and discuss AMD versus Intel and PC gaming performance I got a lot of messages asking me okay you said that we don't need the latest and greatest processor but you didn't say whether or not you need AMD or Intel you're right I didn't mention that because it pretty much warrants a video all of its own it's a very debated topic and I think it goes without saying that Intel is almost always the clear winner when it comes to gaming it's pretty sad the way the core i5 2500 K is outperforming the FX 81 20 in stock speeds which is what I currently use however if you look at the charts that measure pure processing power of these processors it tends to be a different story the eight core and six core processors or the i7s and the FX series or 8000 series are definitely beating the i5s however the questions that I was asked were purely gaming questions most of these people that are asking me questions are not asking about doing video editing or encoding or Photoshop or any of that kind of software they want to build a gaming machine so they want to know do I go AMD or do I go Intel but I gotta say if you're building purely a gaming machine the core i5 2500 K by Intel is a beast of a chip for gaming downside of the 2500 K is that it's not available anymore most places either have it as a refurb or some sort of a back stock and if you can find it they're typically on sale extremely cheap we're talking 160 dollars I've seen it as low as 150 before it micro Center if you were to buy it with a motherboard and it was just an amazing processor the equivalent to the 2500 K an Ivy Bridge is the 35 70 K the 35 70 K is roughly 10% faster than the 2500 K so that's just amazing but if you truly want to go all out and you don't have a budget constraint definitely go for an i7 I know that contradicts a little bit what I said in the other video but hear me out but if you have absolutely no budget constraint and you're just asking me what is the baddest computer I can build today you're going to want to go with the Intel i7 3770k it has the four physical cores as well as the four logical cores giving you eight threads of processing power so that means you could have all kinds of programs going while you're gaming in the background and you're not going to see any slowdown whatsoever in most instances you're not going to see a slowdown with a twenty five hundred K or the 35 70 K either now up until this point I've only talked about Intel so why do I have AMD because I know people were going to ask me dude you're pitching Intel your pitching Intel so why do you have an AMD to answer that question we got to rewind a year ago a year ago I had to build a PC on a budget I had 1,200 dollars to spend and I had nothing to reuse I was moving back to PC from Mac and so I had to build everything from scratch we're talking every cable every screw of everything I needed had to be bought so I went with AMD simply because at the time I was able to get a 965 Black Edition which is a phenom 2 + x4 for $100 flat now if we compare the phenom x4 965 Black Edition for a hundred bucks with the equivalent I 5 or i7 of the time which I believe was the 920 was the i7 and the 720 was the i-5 and if I'm wrong just tell me in the comments what they actually were so people don't get confused it doesn't really matter but it's nice to have the right numbers out there the phenom ii x4 especially the 965 itself was like the golden chip for AMD when it came to gaming I love that chip I was easily able to overclock it to 4 gigs there was no problem there didn't even have to run water on it to do it and my games ran smooth now yes it was being beaten by Intel however it was just unbeatable in the FPS per dollar range it was a it was an amazing chip now someone might be asking themselves ok so fine you had your 965 you loved it and you upgrade it why did you not upgrade to Intel in between upgrading the processors my previous motherboard took a so I had a decision to make I've got to buy a new motherboard anyway so if I go Intel then I have to buy a processor too which would then say okay I'm back on a budget because I don't want to spend too much money which means I'm going to buy bottom shelf Intel and my 965 was already beating the bottom shelf Intel for the same price because the only thing you could buy for a hundred bucks at the time was an i3 and I wasn't about to go high three so I went ahead and stuck with AMD now when I upgraded the processor if I wanted to go Intel I had to buy a new motherboard so I already had across an Asus Republic of gamers crosshair 5 which is their best AMD motherboard you can possibly buy when it comes to feature set I was pretty much stuck in this path so I'm sort of convincing myself it's worth it to hang out with AMD and just wait it out for Piledriver which is AMD's next generation processor and if it is a complete letdown i've already decided that my next upgrade path will be an Intel and it will likely be an i7 because as I mentioned I need the power so here it is here's my recommendation if you're going to early gaming this is a gaming machine and you were on a budget and you need to buy a processor that's a hundred and fifty dollars or less go on Amazon go on Google try and find yourself either a used phenom ii x4 965 or even a 975 you might even find a 98 v out there which are all great they're all unlocked you can overclock all of them or find yourself a 1090 or 1100 T those were the next generation between the FX and the Phenom force they were great processors and not to mention their six core processors so you get a little more power and the gaming performance on those are great you'll see on here the chart for the Phenom 2 x6 1090 T is beating my FX 80 120 at stock speeds when it comes to gaming performance if you need the extra cores you can get the 80 120 but the only way you're going to really see the performance out of it is to overclock it at stock speeds I was less than thrilled with it I was going to take it back then I decide let's go ahead and just overclock this bitch and see where it goes and I'm extremely happy here we are now going on shoot six months later and I'm as happy as can be now if you're looking for a processor that's over a hundred and fifty dollars it makes no sense to go with AMD for instance you can get the i-5 35 70 K for 220 bucks now the equivalent from AMD today would be the fx-8150 and it's $199 so you spent $20 more and you're going to get the i-5 which is going to do a million times better in games then the fx-8150 if you have to spend between 150 and 200 and you just do not want to go AMD but you don't know what to buy you're probably gonna be stuck looking for a 2500 K that's stuck in somebody's inventory however that's an early 2011 chip and they're just not really around anymore and I know that's going to ruffle feathers because the discussion of AMD versus Intel is just as heated as console versus PC Ford versus Chevy Honda versus everybody else so there it is that's my advice so there you have it my two cents regarding AMD and Intel on gaming machines I'm using AMD and I'm happy what are you using and why put it in the comments click the video on the left if you haven't seen my video regarding what to know before you buy or build your next PC and click the video on the right to see my commentary and opinions regarding the armored kill expansion pack for battlefield 3 don't forget to follow me on Twitter subscribe and click that like button if this video helped you in any way