Found this article today. I mean it all really depends on what you are going for. Straight gaming it would be intel. If not then AMD. Honestly with this new gen of intel having 6 cores quad core might be out of date sooner than expected and if it's based on my cores than 4 then AMD pretty much has it. Personally I use AMD always have. About went 7700k on this build. Went with the 1700 saved myself a few bucks OC a little and it's running great.