At the time I built this machine AMD was getting into trouble for misadvertising the amount of cores in their processors and one day I got a check in the mail out of nowhere for my 8 core FX-8370 processor I bought a few years back. If that has changed then it is just the fluidity of the industry we are in. But so far as I always understood it Intel and Nvidia are where people went for the better quality and the folk who wanted to save money went with amd and radeon. Despite current benchmarks we should all wait and see what comes out next. Be it a better chip from intel or another class action lawsuit. One single product release does not undo decades of back and forth and Intel coming out on top. That is just us getting caught up in the moment I think. But time will tell. For now, why not go read this 411 about my paycheck from nowhere: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbrea...ulldozer-chips