AMD or Intel For overclocking

[FreerunningSniper]

I have created two different builds for my gaming rig, which one is better. I have never overclocked, so should I, and what should I add (more fans?), what is better?

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/FreerunningSniper/saved/CtCcCJ

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/FreerunningSniper/saved/hjb6Mp

 

[davidarad02]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($166.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($81.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($48.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($50.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($349.99 @ Adorama)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($62.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($58.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $820.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-06 16:34 EDT-0400

there is no OS here and it cant overclock on the CPU side, but this is a beast of a rig for the price, and you could technically get windows coppies from reddit for less then 20 bucks if you know where to look, but I cant tell you anything about that......

 

[synphul]

Similar to davidarad02's build. $20 more but keeps the win7 copy you had listed originally (I don't know what ebay offer you were looking at so I left it alone).

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($166.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($69.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($51.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($46.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card ($319.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: BitFenix Comrade ATX Mid Tower Case ($47.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Rosewill Capstone 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B3ST/BLK/G/AS DVD/CD Writer ($21.98 @ OutletPC)
Other: Windows 7 EBAY ($65.00)
Total: $840.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-06 17:24 EDT-0400

A little more than the fx build but a lot better gaming performance. Here's the r9 280 vs the gtx 970.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1332?vs=1355

 

[FreerunningSniper]

You both seem to favor the Intel core more than the AMD, why?

 

[davidarad02]

You both seem to favor the Intel core more than the AMD, why?

its just a fact that intel is so much faster in single core performance than AMD, and games REALLY like fast cores.

 

[synphul]

+1

It's not that amd are horrible but if the price is the same/similar it doesn't make much sense to go with slower performance. The amd's aren't like running a pentium 166 or anything but they've been trailing intel for the past number of years. Since then intel cpu's have continued to improve and for the most part amd has kept releasing the same product with faster clock speeds. Maybe the new zen architecture will improve things sometime in 2016 for amd but intel still has i5's over 4yrs old that aren't bottlenecking any of today's gpu's except maybe if left at stock speed and paired with a gtx titan or 980ti sli (if you have $1300 for gpu's you likely have $200 for a decent cpu). That's much of the reason for the focus amd is taking to improve ipc core performance (instructions per clock) and moving to a whole new architecture. Their current bulldozer/piledriver fx architecture isn't keeping up and if it was, they would continue to use it.