Originally Posted by
GriffAM
Going Intel is a poor choice for anyone making a budget build. AMD chips will almost always perform better for the price in today's current 2-core games. Now, down the road when games actually take full advantage of hyper-threading, this statement will be completely invalid, and the i5/i7 line will blow X4's out of the water.
For the time being however, AMD is still the way to go for budget gaming builds (I would recommend looking at the 955 or 965). Been using my 955 for over a year now and have had nothing but good experiences.