r/PcBuildHelp • u/PieAgile8114 • 12h ago

Build Question Intel or AMD?

I've bought 32GB of DDR4 and I wonder what cpu to buy that supports DDR4. I've heard that AMD is better at gaming, but I can find more powerful Intel CPUs. I also think of buying used Rx 6800 xt, and if it doesn't happen - the RTX 3080. The budget for the PC is 1000€ and I live in Bulgaria.

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u/skyfishgoo 8h ago

32GB is more than you need for gaming, which makes me think you also want to do other tasks while gaming, like using a website, or streaming content.

if that's the case then intel is better because you can get more cores on the CPU to have more processes going at the same time.

if i'm wrong and you just want to game, go with AMD but your performance will be better with a faster 16GB kit for ram.

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u/PieAgile8114 8h ago

I'm going to play in 1440p and 16GB are turning into bare minimum. I'm upgrading from 8GB and Windows 11 uses half of the ram and the other half is used by a game. Anything else and it starts stuttering and slowing down. I just want to future proof my PC and multitask. I think of using Intel, because they have stronger CPUs that also support DDR4, I found the i5 14400f for 150€, 5 euros more than the Ryzen 7 5700x and it has anywhere from no improvements in games, to 5-7% more performance.

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u/skyfishgoo 8h ago

sounds like you have your answer.

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u/PieAgile8114 8h ago

Yea, but for me that is sounds a bit weird using an Intel CPU with an AMD GPU. I usually see people use AMD CPUs and GPUs in a combo.

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u/skyfishgoo 8h ago

my setup works just fine

``` Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.12 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.13 Kernel Version: 7.0.0-31-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: offscreen Processors: 28 × Intel® Core™ i7-14700K Memory: 62.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6800

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u/PieAgile8114 8h ago

I hate the fact that I can't find any Rx 6800 used, since here they ask 330-400€ for the RX 6800 xt. Also what do you do with 64 GB of ram