Originally Posted by
DeltrusDisc
Okay.
A) cpubenchmark.net is, I'm sorry but it's true, the fool's destination for picking out CPUs on the internet. They do not tell you just about anything about the testing, other than the results. Let me clue you in on some stuff:
Most hardcore CPU benchmarking software takes advantage of ALL of the cores. Guess what? Gaming doesn't. You said you want to game, not do a billion calculations for protein-folding in Folding@Home, or what have you. If that was the case, then yeah, maybe AMD would be better, but it's not. Not to mention, you don't need (and would see no increase in performance with what you are saying you want to do) an i7.
B) 16GB of RAM is overkill for you, 8GB is still more than enough for gamers, even people who stream.
C) AMD's Bulldozer/Piledriver CPUs = the FX-8xxx CPUs, are literally more like, half the amount of cores as they tout them to be. 8 core processor? It's equal to a 4 core Intel in just about everything. Intel's cheap i7's (the ones I call fake i7's, they are just i5's with hyper-threading enabled) would still run circles around AMD's FX-8xxx CPUs and OC far better, and ultimately make up the monetary difference with value and performance.
You should have asked our advice BEFORE buying and then coming and telling us what you bought and then not liking the fact that we disagree with your purchase.
Go to Overclock.net, overclockers.com, overclock3d.net, etc, you will get the same response.