Which one is better

I am looking into building a middle of the road gaming rig but I'm currently stuck at a crossroad. My last build (about 5 years old) worked with no problems until I tried to put that Star Wars game into and it literally shut my computer off. AMD has been good to me so far but it looks like Intel is on the way back. So if you had to choose between these two which would be better to start off with.


Intel I7 2600k $279
P8Z68-V LX LGA 1155 Z68 ATX Intel Motherboard $59

or

AMD FX 8120 $199.99
Asus Sabertooth 990 FX $184.99

To my surprise the Intel is part of a combo at Microcenter where you can get both for pretty much the regular price of the chip alone, with taxes of course.

i5-2500k. Do not get the v-lx voard. Get something like an i5-2500k and a p8z68-v

Do not get the 2600K for gaming, its a waste of money. As amuffin said, get the i5-2500K instead.

You get 50 dollars off of a mobo, I would get the asrock p67 extreme 4 gen 3 with the cpu.

Actually the hackintosh build in my sig was purchased from microcenter. I am assuming you are around that frys and microcenter by the costco anyways it is a great place. However I would get the board in my sig over the v-lx.

Depends.
http://www.gigabyte.com/microsite/ [...] odels.html

I ended up getting that board that you mentioned, it came at a great price at Microcenter as well. That place is pretty sick for a computer store, I did get kind of pissed off that they ran out of HAF 912 so I had to get some other case but its cool. I went with the I5 2500k paired with the Gigabyte, 8 gigs of ram. Cx500 power supply and a Antec kuhler 620 cooling system. My last question for you is how much will I be able to overclock with this system?



Thanks for all your help btw.