Depends on what tasks for which it is being built; gaming, video editing, both... This website is the best all-around for current status of any rig component. Gives you user rating, value, benchmarks of various aspects of performance, overall rating of rig. Can even build your own rig, see the best prices & compare to other similar or different rigs. https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/ Much faster than asking you what you want & your budget. AMD is releasing new architecture in a couple months; which means better choices & cheaper prices on current choices... if you're in no hurry. If you get an amd cpu & gpu, the new architecture will allow the cpu to use the gpu's memory when appropriate to decrease latency, among other things. The slight edge Intel has over amd in latency is about to disappear.