The AMD chip is fine for gaming and if the games/applications support multi-threading, the AMD performs much better. Personally I would add another $30 to the pot and get the AMD FX-8350. There isn't a game out there which needs/can use more power than that. The comparable Intel processor is the i5-4690 which costs $50 more than the 8350. Additionally, AMD chipset motherboards are usually cheaper than their Intel chipset competitors.

Short answer:

Intel is expensive but better, AMD is cheaper but generally considered less durable (usually because they do not hyper-thread there CPU's, google hyper-threading if you want to know more about that)

Long answer:

Comparing the two CPU's you listed above, that intel CPU WILL NOT run many games. If you want a good Intel processor for gaming you will need to fork out close to $400. The important thing about whichever one you get regardless, is that you need to make sure the motherboard both has the right socket for whichever processor, and that the motherboard supports the processor. I had an issue where i upgraded my AMD CPU and the motherboard was too old to support and run it. Also make sure you have a power supply to power such powerful components, do not cheap out on a PSU. I would suggest at least 750W for a high end gaming computer

Amd Pro:Cheap, Top of the line performance (5ghz8cores), Less fragile socket design

Intel Pro: Top of the line performance, Neat CPU fan mounting system, early adoption of ddr4 support

(though typically changing ram typ should be left to when prices and availability has shifted a bit.. DDR3 is likely to remain cheaper a good while)

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Amd Con: Historically somewhat hotter running CPUs, Less awsome CPU mount

Intel Con:Expensive!, Really stupidly fragile socket design

But the biggest problem with intel is its reprihensible business practicess where it attempt to destroy the competition by illigal exculsivity deals with retailer among other shady dealing...

It has been fined for this in both the US and EU

This goes to a bigger problem in the PC market i.e that we have only 2 major chip makers not counting smaller specialist like VIA (that focus on embeded x86 and x64 systems)

If one where to topel the other there would be no reason to innovate...

thus AMD also deserves a vital underdog bonus as its gotten partially out manuvered by intel by sneaky underhanded means.

Luckily at least now they are getting some revenge by getting their hardware into both Xbox and Ps4...

I personally which ARM was as modular as traditional pc hardware because The Arm architecture is licensed out to manufacturers so there are many chip makers who do ARM boards where as the same is not quite as true for AMD or Intels respective Architecture...

And now at least with windows RT and Windows 10 we now have support for the ARM architecture which is a major step forward..

intel, i3-4330 only consume 54 watt, FX-8320 consume 125 watt. i3-4330 single thread performance is better meaning 1 intel cpu is better than 1 amd cpu, playing a game + leaving a web browser open + leaving a skype open, aren't multitasking.

multitasking is rendering a photoshop while rendering an ableton live, while extracting a big rar archive, while playing video game in the spare time waiting for all those tasks to complete, and there's a submission deadline for the rendering the photoshop and ableton live process

source :

1. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

2. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

3. http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i3-4330-vs-AMD-... from google 'Intel i3-4330 vs FX-8320'

additional reasons to choose intel :

1. fatal1ty uses 'sandy bridge e 3930k 3.2 ghz'

http://fatal1ty.com/new-gaming-rig/

2. i3-4330 beats fx 8320 in

'Measures 3D graphics and game performance of CPU/GPU combination by running 4 game simulations, that make extensive use of DirectX 9.0/9.0C capabilities.'

in http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/357/AMD_FX-Series...

from google '4330 vs 8320'

3. Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky

winner of 2014 quakecon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakeCon#2014

uses intel quad core

source :

http://www.esreality.com/wiki/Cypher

but fx 8320 beats i3-4330 in http://anandtech.com/bench/product/698?vs=1192

i still prefer i3-4330 because that can lower electricity monthly bill.

and http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-rev... choose intel.

you can chose anyone you like as long you know how to choose they catagorized thier cpu in terms of processing power for daily use amd sempron,althlon,phenom,or amd APUS and for gaming and high end task use fx series cpus and for intel corei3 for basic tasks and corei5 and corei7 for mid to high end gaming and corei7 extreem edition is for high end tasks. just make sure that you buy the lates processor form anyone of these right now intel have haswell series and amd have the latest cpus too

you can chose anyone you like as long you know how to choose they catagorized thier cpu in terms of processing power for daily use amd sempron,althlon,phenom,or amd APUS and for gaming and high end task use fx series cpus and for intel corei3 for basic tasks and corei5 and corei7 for mid to high end gaming and corei7 extreem edition is for high end tasks. just make sure that you buy the lates processor form anyone of these right now intel have haswell series and amd have the latest cpus too

AMD makes lower end chips but at that particular price point the AMD chip is better than the i3

For gaming machines people will typically go with an Intel i5 or i7.

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