04-02-2009, 09:32 PM
Right now, the only upside to AMD is price. Intel smokes them in terms of performance though. Quad-core may or may not even be necessary depending on what you want to do with the PC.
Do you plan to play Crysis on it? If not, don't bother with getting everything top of the line.
Do you plan to play Crysis on it? If not, don't bother with getting everything top of the line.