Phenom II X2 550 (3.1G) 6mb AM3 or Intel E7500 (2.93G) 3mb 1066fsb C2D ano po ba mas maganda pang gaming
It depends, if you want to try your luck in core unlocking, then choose AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition, may chance ka dyan makakuha ng triple or even a fully working quadro core CPU in a price of dual core. Intel on the other hand, mas mabilis siya Clock-per-Clock kasya sa AMD CPU's; and If your going for a dual core Intel CPU, choose the 2nd Generation Intel Core i3 series instead of the one you stated above.
Take the Phenom II X2 550 in case AMD could come up with a new technology that can match intel's nelahem architecture. Then you are ready to upgrade since your going to use the latest socket from AMD which is AM3.
We will see that new tech from AMD (widely known as Bulldozer Core) sometime in June 2011, I'm actually looking forward to that to see how well it will compete with Intel's latest 2nd generation Core i-series CPU's.
@karmic If you want to go with intel take the I3 or I5 processors. Don't buy any processors that still use the socket 775 platform because its EOL is near.
just remember i3 and i5 come in first and second generations. Get the newer one of course, thats a no brainer. Plus in this case, the improvement is pretty noticable I think we should call them i3.0 and i3.1 para malinaw
^ I agree, the 2nd gen Sandy Bridge are 17% faster than the 1st gen Nehalem architecture, especially when decrypting/encrypting AES security with their new AES instruction set. And the new 2nd iteration of Sandy Bridge, the Ivy Bridge will be 20% much faster than Sandy Bridge.
then call it i3.2/15.2 or i3.1.1/i5.1.1 if you study military terminology, ganyan sila. Sa M1 tank meron M1 then M1A1 then M1A2 then M1A3 ...
If ever you wanted to call it out that way. Just state it clearly that it's the way how you've named it to avoid confusion among other people. Good luck, then.
