I want a new computer... Help?

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    • Well, unless you have a shit-ton of money actually put aside (which I did not) I'd go the cheaper one. Both would run great, if you had them sitting next too each other you wouldn't be able to tell much difference. Both would most-likely run max settings on most games. Just go the cheaper route and if you have spare money(and time/patience) you can customize it and add accessories later.
    • I'd probably go with what TisBen says. Also was there a reason why you switched to an A-data SSD over the cheaper Samsung 840 SSD? The samsung is cheaper between the two. I also think you forgot to either add the network items on the Intel build to the AMD one as well or forgot to remove them.

      One thing you do want to consider when deciding between the two is which games you intend on playing. This is because some games are more optimised on Nvidia cards while others are more optimised on AMD cards. These optimisations are released through drivers, though if i remember correctly AMD's driver support isn't so great compared to Nvidia's. So just take a look at the sort of games you intend on playing and see which games run better on which brand of card.
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    • Intel is great for developing since you get a lot of extra cache combined with great clock frequency and cores while AMD can still be fair enough at a low budget. The easiest way to decide if a processor is good or not is by checking the amount of cache, number of cores, frequency at 2.5 is fair enough since you can easily overclock this if you want, it could be raised at least 1GHz higher with good stability!
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