Choosing your gaming computer processor or CPU

We will build a Intel or AMD gaming computer for all of the three market segments on both platforms. Two low-range, one AMD and one Intel. Two mid-range, one AMD and one Intel. Two high-range, one AMD and one Intel for a total of six gaming computers. Take a look to the table below to know which processor we will be using for all of our Intel and AMD gaming computers.

	Intel	AMD
low-range gaming computer	Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 processor	AMD Athlon II X4 630 processor
mid-range gaming computer	Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 processor	AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition processor
high-range gaming computer	Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 processor	AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor

If you're interested in any of the Intel or AMD processors we mentioned above for your new gaming computers or to perform an upgrade you can click on any of the links below to get them at very good prices on some online stores.

How to build a gaming computer: newbie tutorial

Introduction

Welcome to our tutorial. Our goal in this tutorial is to give recommendations for the three gaming computers main market segments. Those are: low-range, mid-range and high-range. We will give advise about which piece of hardware you should choose to build a gaming computer in any of those segments. We will also establish a budget for any of those segments and will do our best not to exceed it. You will then choose which budget adjusts to you better and buy the hardware accordingly. We will also post some videos about how to install your recently acquired hardware so you can build your gaming computer or upgrade it in no time. Now let's go to the next step which is choosing your gaming computer processor or CPU.