just a heads up the new AMD 5000 series is being released 5 Nov. these cpu's will be out performing i7s by what it appears could be a reasonable margin. while amd had the core count advantage for a while they didn't have the clock speed or ipc that intel has. this new series now boost to nearly 5ghz and single core ipc is outscoring intel by a large margin in things like cpuz cpu bench, cinebench r20, you will need to buy a graphics card as their is no onboard graphics unit. it also has pci4 rather than pci3.
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