Mainak23
Journeyman
+1.....
Then I suggest you to go with the AMD configuration if you want to save Money. It is still not a match for i7 3770K but you have to look at the price too.
Advantages:
1. In certain Multi-threaded apps like Video Encoding, Compressing apps like Winzip, 7Z which are highly multi-threaded, AES based encryption applications, it is just behind i7 3770K.
2. Gaming at 1080P with high setting enabled, Processor matters very little and the performance difference is real low when paired with a powerful GPU.
3. Comes with very good CPU cooler which will let you overclock occasionally up to 4.3 GHz.
4. With Windows 7 Bulldozer Patch and EFI BIOS update which let you enable HPC (High Performance Computing Mode) in BIOS, the performance increased up to 3%. Tested by me.
5. There is a major upgrade coming for Windows 8, known as the Power and Scheduling Upgrade, which will take care of the poor scheduling of Windows for BD and PD processors and might offer some great performance boost.
6. Better upgrade Path. With Intel config, your upgrade path ends here as the upcoming Haswell processors need a completely different Socket Type, socket 1150. With AMD, the AM3+ platforms will support the upcoming StreamRoller CPU.
7. Better instruction set support as PileDriver support FMA3 and FMA4 and that is not present in any current Intel Processors. Future apps will take advantage of those new instruction sets.