Thread: AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE vs. Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

I'm buying a new computer, and I'm a little stuck between these two processors.

The computer will have a very powerful ATI (the second highest they offer) graphics card and a liquid cooling system, so the graphics card isn't a problem. I'm also running DDR3 with each rig, with equal motherboards, and four gigs of memory each.

And neither is the processor, obviously, but I want to know which will run my needs better.

I will be playing Aion, which is a brand new MMORPG, and this is about all I'll be doing. No multi-tasking, no double-boxing, nothing'. Just playing Aion. The problem? Aion is a graphical masterpiece and I'm looking to be running it on graphics maxed, and still get extremely good framerate even in crowded cities and crowded raids.

So, for my needs, which processor should I go for?

The 2 processors are generally similar in performance on single threaded tasks, without benchmarks of this particular program it would be hard to say which it runs better on. However you'll most likely experience a gpu bottleneck anyways, either processor should run the game within a few fps of each other.