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Budget gaming: CPU choices
A friend recently asked me to build him a gaming Pc, for around £400, not a majorly difficult task and I've done it in the past. However on my previous build I've usually gone with an AMD CPU, as at this price range I believe they have much better value for money. However I pointed towards a possible alternative, the Intel pentium k, anniversary edition.
Dual core, 3.20GHz Unlocked, and from what I've seen, it'll happily overclock to at least 4GHz with a decent after market cooler. This seems like a pretty interesting option to me.
The build will include something along the lines of a R9 270 or 280, depending on price of the rest and the price of the GPU's at the time.
So my question to you is this, for a budget gaming Pc,
The high clock, dual core intel CPU,
or
A lower clocked multi-core AMD CPU.
If the AMD, which one would you recommend?