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intel or AMD which should you choose I get this question a lot and it always calls for some heated debate in some forum or livestream or Twitter feed but it really shouldn't have to there are objective facts dividing the two sides each consumer is free to navigate between them according to the utility each may provide in any given scenario no two people are alike and what I mean simply by that is this some may see more value from Intel and others may see more value from AMD so which should you choose I'll try to narrow down the competition in this video to make your decision just a bit easier one thing I want to make perfectly clear before I discuss anything else is that I'm not being paid by anyone to make this video I'm not even throwing a sponsor in this video because I don't want anything like that swaying what I'm going to say here this is straight from the heart and my experience over the years for once we have healthy competition in the consumer CPU space and I finally feel comfortable enough to give you guys the inside scoop so you don't have to agree with what I'm going to say but I'm going to say it anyway so the first two questions you should ask yourself when deciding between platforms is what you'll be doing more of think long and hard about these two gaming or creating and what your budget is I've said this time and time again but if you want to purely game and that is it you should forego a core i7 from Intel purchase an unlocked AI 5 still one of the best CPUs out there for gaming though the save money into a better graphics card and a better cooler period that's my recommendation but not all are cut and dry like this the i5 8600 k as I proved in this video right here keeps up with the i7 counterpart and nearly every title in 1080p the higher the resolution remember the less stress you'll put on it but fewer and fewer people are doing just a gaming anymore many are multitasking streaming content creating and this is where AMD arisin comes in without a doubt the red team hosts better value that's just I think we can all agree on that the rise of 5 1600 is in my opinion the best value chip on the market and while not the greatest for gaming will still keep frame rates in desirable levels even when paired with something like a 1080 Ti your CP might be the bottleneck in some cases but don't worry you'll be just fine so let's break this down by price category if you are only looking to spend roughly 500 US equivalent dollars on a rig you should stay in reisender territory I wouldn't even recommend Intel for this budget just because we only have Z 370 chipsets at our disposal right now so with all rising CPUs and you can overclock healthily on both be 350 and X 370 motherboards I recommend be 350 for up to Rison 5 and X 370 for risin 7 and risin plus processors for the extra overclocking Headroom you might need later on with that said though one thing you should know is that choosing horizon means that you'll have a difficult time overclocking past roughly 4 gigahertz a feature in which Intel reigns supreme is overclock ability that much of this can be attributed to the fact that we've been refining the exact same process for several years now you won't need a beefy air cooler with any Rison 3 CPU and I wouldn't spend any more than about a hundred bucks or so on an 1800 X cooler unless you're going for something as ostentatious as custom water cooling in which case all bets are off for unlocked Intel SKUs however you may want to consider something like the be quiet dark Rock pro 4 on the air cooling side or a 360 MLA o like the new course or h 150 i pro if your budget is closer to 1,000 USD equivalent then you likely have two CPUs from which to choose the r5 1600 and the i5 8600 K both are extremely capable but for different reasons the i5 will be the better gamer you'll see anywhere between a 5 and 15% framerate bump in most titles in 1080p but the r5 will cost less especially when the price of a be 350 motherboard is taken into account and despite having the same number of active cores the r5 1600 boasts simultaneous multi-threading or SMT which is essentially AMD's hyper threading equivalent these extra virtual threads reduce both processing and efficiencies associated with data stream line through individual pipelines more on that right here but what you need to know in this video is that the i-5 will still squeak out victories in most tasks including content creation thanks to higher frequencies and better software optimization you may get lucky on the RAM side as well which could influence a few tasks as for the top tier stuff this really comes down to preference I used Rison 7 in my daily driver for several months thanks to the 8 core 16 thread offerings and it was superior in every way to my i7 6700 case a gaming but that wasn't as big of a concern for me with the release of the 8700 K though things have been shaken up a bit I now switch periodically between both plat for gaming and editing and have to say that both perform very well many of the kinks have been worked out from the initial rise and launch including RAM compatibility and bio stability so you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between an r7 and i7 machine in short if you want great value and performance for everything literally go to Rison 7 but if you want the absolute best at the expense of may be fewer cores which may impact things like streaming several years from now people arguing on the future proofing thing then go with the core i7 oh and one last thing try to avoid a risin 1c if use ending in X they're marketed as better overclockers but since you can do this with literally any of them from r3 up through r7 it makes no sense in my book to spend more money on chips that will overclock much higher than their non ex counterparts unless you plan on doing no manual overclocking and while the r5 1600 X has a higher TDP an out-of-the-box boost frequency you should know that this is only for a single thread similar to turbo boost you shouldn't have much trouble reaching similar frequencies anyway with the cheaper 1600 nan XQ assuming you have a beefy enough cooler and solid motherboard with Intel though things are a bit monotone if you're looking to completely upgrade platforms coffee-like is in my opinion the only viable option out there otherwise Rises value reigns supreme so you have no choice with the blue team but to invest in the Izzi 370 chipset at which point it only makes sense to buy unlock CPUs namely the i5 8600 K and the i7 8700 K which is why I've only mentioned those two from Intel in this video with that I hope this video at least clears up a bit of your predicament it's gonna be a difficult decision no matter what especially if you want a game and multitask you know do something else in the background you can find all these CPUs by the way linked in the video description along with motherboards I'd recommend for them and they're tied to my Amazon 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