ComangliaZorroturtsmcgurts6 core at 4ghz for only $140 sounds a little bit too good to be true. i don't keep up with hardware until it's time for to upgrade myself, so hopefully somebody else can go deeper with this
sounds perfectly reasonable to me. just because a cpu has a higher core count and faster clock speed doesnt mean that its necessarily better than a cpu with less cores and a lower clock speed. For example an intel i7-3770K has only 4 cores and a clock speed of 3.5 ghz but it is much faster than the amd cpu in this build.
-_- you really don't understand processors do you?
the i7-3770k has 4 physical cores and 4 logical cores. It's technically a 8-core processor. Matter of fact all AMD 8-core processors are just like the i7 in this regard they have 4 physical cores and 4 logical cores. AMD and Intel just market them differently.
Their's other various reasons why Intel CPUs run faster, but to say "Well, the i7 has less cores and is still more powerful." is HIGHLY misleading.
vanillaWell considering tf2 is much more CPU intensive than GPU intensive, if I drop the SSD, I'd rather put that money into a better CPU. What would you guys suggest for that option?
i5-4670k or i5-3570k you will need a different motherboard as well for these cpu;s
How is hyper threading at all the same thing as the module cores amd fx uses? lol, good logic there bud. The i7 has less cores than the fx6300, it does have hyper threading but that doesn't help in gaming at all.