Hey TC. a $400 pc blows your console out of the water.

FashionFreak

[QUOTE="iamthatdude_"]I was about to pull the trigger and order, but my friend told me that the AMD CPU is not good for gaming and that a $80 intel CPU is better in performance so I should go with that or wait for Ivy Bridge to see if there are price drops for other CPUs. Is what he told me true? I'm trying to cover all my bases before I blow $500.ionusX

here let me ask you somehting and if you answer know.. your buddy can get on his hands and knees and clean me...

do you plan on playing supreme commander 1 on a multimonitor setup or running BFBC2 in 3 screen eyefinity, how about toal war shogun 2 on an eyefinity setup? if the answer to all of those was no.. your buddy is basically full of biased nonsense and doesnt in fact have any idea that you can still play amny of todays games on cpu's far weaker than the fx-4100. cause what he is recommending to you is a SB celeron dual core.. and if he knows whats good for him.. will steer you clear of those dual cored garbadge processors. this being said their cpu is cheaper but the motherboard would be more for something halfway decent. so you would in the end spend basically the same amount of money anyway. better to get the quad and sit on it till something wiser comes on down such as say trinity or piledriver or maybe even IB if you can afford something worth discussion (judging by the way intel is moving).

but im afraid that the SB celerons shouldnt be used as multi-core processing is where games are going.. and if he owns one of thsoe dual cores.. better tell him to upgrade soon to the beefy core i5-2300 or better as when the enxt gen consoles start to launch.. he will be up ----'s creek without a paddle. to make matters worse some of those celerons are single core's XD single core cpu's were relvant for gaming back when in about 2005 - 2006.. today using one for gaming is like asking for someone to make a fire so you can burn your wallet