Which of these two build would go go with?

[BingoWinger]

Which build would you go with out of the below and why?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£161.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.20 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£79.90 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.72 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (£242.90 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£62.90 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£74.29 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £753.89
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-25 20:30 GMT+0000)

or this..

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£133.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.20 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£100.38 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£68.32 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.72 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Video Card (£239.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£62.90 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£74.29 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £747.94
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-25 20:32 GMT+0000)

You can swap the GPU's round I'm not bothered.

 

[escrow4]

Intel easily. A few pounds more gets you a faster chip that doesn't suck much power as the 8350 would when overclocked. I'd get something Gigabyte for the Z87 board, personally, something like the Z87X-UD3H over Asrock and there is no SSD, but otherwise looks good.

 

[nwo]

Intel PC for sure.

Mantle still has a long way to go. But so far the numbers seem impressive.

Asrock is fine, but Gigabyte is boss.

Since the price of 280x is nearly the same as GTX 770, you may want to go with the 280x in the intel build instead of the GTX 770. Excluding mantle, the two graphics cards are very close to each other in performance and usually trade blows depending on which game and settings you choose.

 

[mvbighead]

and there is no SSD, but otherwise looks good.

This should be addressed, IMO. Sure, you can go without one... but why? For the minor cost and the amount of performance impact, it should be added.

 

[Blain]

Which build would you go with out of the below and why?

I wouldn't buy either, because they aren't configurations nor brands that'd be useful to me.

 

[mfenn]

This should be addressed, IMO. Sure, you can go without one... but why? For the minor cost and the amount of performance impact, it should be added.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Agree totally.

Intel easily. A few pounds more gets you a faster chip that doesn't suck much power as the 8350 would when overclocked.

Agree with this thought as well.

There's also no reason to tie the Nvidia GPU to the Intel system and the AMD GPU to the AMD system. The GTX 770 and R9 280X trade blows depending on the game, so swap in whichever is faster for the games you're interested in.