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first up of course is to figure out which you prefer between AMD or Intel

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right wrong we do not shop by brand we

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shop by what delivers us the best performance features and quality for the

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money we're spending and just to make this Crystal Clear AMD and Intel both

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make extremely high quality microprocessors so let's move on to that

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other stuff step one if you already have your PC and your upgrading is to make

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sure you're shopping for CPUs that actually fit in the fracking motherboard

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that you're planning to use don't feel bad about needing to look it up Intel

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for example maintains current generation products across two different physical

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sockets at any given time and often has a trailing older socket along with more

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complex electrical incompatibilities so go ahead ask a friend next step is to

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look at what delivers more bang for your buck within your target budget

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Performance used to be simple the younger viewers may be surprised to hear

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that not only did AMD and Intel CPUs used to perform the same clock for clock

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but they even fit into the same motherboards at one point comparisons

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were easy whoever had the faster clock speed was faster and the megahertz war

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was born then everything started changing because the megahertz or

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gigahertz or frequency of a CPU became

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no longer any more meaningful than gauging the performance of a car by how

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many RPMs the engine spins at I mean

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yeah it's a it's a useful metric somewhat but only if we have other

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information at the same time so let's talk about this other information number

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one we need to know how much work a CPU

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can perform with each of those Cycles how many instructions per clock it can

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perform if CPU a ran at 2 GHz and did

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one instruction per cycle and CPU B ran at 1 GHz and did two instructions per

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cycle then they actually do the exact same amount of work so the only way to

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measure which one is really better is by running real world tests but just like

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putting a car on a Dyno and measuring Peak horsepower running one test or one

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Benchmark isn't the be all and end all of CPU performance either modern CPUs

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have multiple processing cores inside them and while some benchmarks will

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measure the top speed of a single core with more power redirected to it in a

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turbo mode other benchmarks will tell us more about how that CPU behaves with a

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heavier load that's spread across all the processing course a multi-threaded

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test and other tests will tell us you know if the CPU has enough C to keep up

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with a particular workload in a perfect world you want to find websites that

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test the exact applications you're using most frequently so you know exactly what

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you're getting and that's the only way to figure it out but let's continue the

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car analogy for some people it isn't just about how fast you go what about

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Creature Comforts like air conditioning and cruise control CPU reviews from

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reputable sites like tech report Hardware connects and PC perspective

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will give you a rundown of other important information like power power

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consumption heat output security features maximum supported memory

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expected overclocking limits for Tweakers and so much more and once

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you've got all of that information you are ready to make a non Fanboy tastic

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decision about what gives you the best value for your money before plunking

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down your hard-earned cashola but if all

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that sounded like way too much work and at this point you're just kind of

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