Man fuck AMD
The last computer I built in 2004 was an amd 2600+ with a radeon 9600xt. I thought, "fuck getting an intel, fuck the 9800 pro, this is tremendous bang for the buck and will last years" which was a very popular consensus among gamers at the time. In fact, there were far more amd fanboys than intel. What happens? Obsolete in two years. Meanwhile the comparable intep chips kept going on, the 9800pro remained relevant for years. I couldn't even run counter strike source on that piece of shit 9600xt and cpu lol i was maxed out on a game that came out the same fucking year lol, it was obsolete then.
Also, directx12 isn't too far away, it'll utilize four cores max. Those 6 and 8 core amds will be left in the dust compared to an intel with no bottleneck
DirectX 12 early tests: 400% performance increase on AMD GPUs, 150% on Nvidia | VG247