For Gaming: AMD vs Intel

[andrewsvalesen]

No need for a flame war.
Was looking at the AMD Deneb 965 BE

For 185$ from what I hear, it has great Price/performance ratios.

Anyone recommend anything else in the $185-200 Category range? I'm looking specifically for great Price/Performance.

Are the i5's THAT much better?

thanks
and happy thanksgiving =]

 

[aliasaid]

AMD pwns

 

[Puddle Jumper]

The Intel Core i5 750 beats the PII 965 across the board and is only slightly more expensive.

Newegg.com - Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

here are some benchmarks comparing the two. (note: lower is better for a lot of the benchmarks)

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?p=109&p2=102

 

[Muffin Man]

^ somethings wrong with the anandtech comparsion link, i get an error.

edit: yep, it works now.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

It should work now.

 

[gurusan]

In terms of gaming there isn't much if any difference