Intel Celeron Dual Core T1600 processor" vs "AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57", please advise?

You have all true answers so far. But, they do not really help in choosing the right CPU for your gaming rig. I can get into the fact that an FX-4100 is the exact same IC as FX-6100 and FX-4170 and FX-8120 and FX-8150 and all AMD does is change the clock speed and lock or unlock cores and then test them to meet the final specifications, but they are really all the same physical part.

That may be interesting also, but doesn't help. A hierarchy of gaming CPUs is helpful: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gami... This shows approximate tiers of gaming performance vs CPU. Gaming can only use 4 cores and no hyperthreading or virtual cores, and older games only two cores and ones like Skyrim use mostly 2 cores.

An i3-3220 with 2 cores games better than an FX-8150 with AMDs stated 8 cores. The number of cores is not important to you. In video editing and general use, Passmark score is a better indicator: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php The table can be rank sorted or score sorted.

The other thing to know is about whether the core clock is open or locked. With a good aftermarket CPU cooler and the matching motherboard, an unlocked clock CPU can be overclocked to run faster as long as it stays stable. Another thing to know is that the graphics card is far more important than the CPU in most games.

It isn't until a CPU is bottlenecking (limiting performance) of the CPU/GPU pair that you need the faster CPU. The best gaming CPU to use is an Intel i5-3570K. It can be overclocked with a Z77 or Z75 motherboard.

It is also good because the Intel based boards with Ivy Bridge CPUs also have PCIe 3.0 support; where AMD boards go to only PCIe 2.0. A new graphics card like GTX 6xx and HD 7xxx levels are PCIe 3.0 and slow by about 7% when used with even the best AMD processor and motherboard. So here are video card benchmarks: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_li... And, a table into gaming: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html (Desktop+laptop and RESTRICT) and estimate missing cards.

And then the shopping and some compatibility checks: http://pcpartpicker.com/au/parts/partlist.

They don't.... In fact AMD has just redefined the notion of processor cores. What they sell as quad core is in fact a dual core with 4 processing threads, the 6 core is a tri core with 6 processing threads and their so-called eight core is only a quad core with 8 processing threads. As of now, the only true 8 core processors are for servers only, no desktop eight core processor was ever build.

One thing you got right, they are cheap, but that is only because they are not as good as a similar class Intel processor. FACT: You want top quality and speed you buy Intel, you want cheap and not so good you buy AMD. For gaming, even an Intel Core i5-2500K or i5-3570K is better than the so called AMD FX-8000 series "Faildozer", see here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/2...

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