i want something that i will not have to keep up till AH 4 or 5
comes out. now if anybody can come up with the answer to that im listening
honestly, I doubt even HTC could answer this , because right now, they are suggesting to wait just "2 weeks" ( <--- tongue in cheek: hehe ) on upgrading or building a new PC, until Aces High (3) is released.... AH2 was called AH 2 for just a few years then HTC went back to calling it "Aces High" dropping the "2 nomenclature" part of the name..... even though people still refer to it as AH2 these days......
I'm finishing up on 2 full AMD cpu & gpu builds for my parents who wanted this to be their last computers they need ( they both are 69 yrs old and poor health ), and in my research the (2) AMD FX4350 factory overclocked & unlocked 4.2 Ghz quadcore cpu's, showed to be better than nearly all other AMD processors performance wise in differing games, outside of that most expensive FX9590 (<--- think that is the model, dang thing is a 220watt cpu, beat that cpu could heat a house )....always when looking at all those benchmarks on paper Intel will nearly always be at the top.... anyways.... they wanted performance but wanted to be reasonable on the cost of building...... but I am betting these 2 AMD computers will be right on par with if not better than that i5-4790? intel cpu.......
done this Intel vs AMD comparison before back in 2011..... my AMD Q975 3.6 Ghz quadcore cpu and AMD XFX6870 1 GB gpu was just as good if not better in some areas as an identical Intel build only difference being the Intel i7-2600K 3.4 Ghz quadcore & XFX6950 2 GB gpu verse the AMD components........ same amount of Ram 16 GBs, same Crucial m4 SSD's, etc.... the better XFX 6950 did allow me to have just a bit better in video tweaking ability, but heck both PC's ran dang near identical, ran under 38 degree C or lower on MB and VC and CPU, and the AMD system still kicked the intel systems arse in autocad where as the Intel system beat the AMD system in video editing...... game wise one could not see any difference in how they performed, one could not tell what system they was using if they were never told and was testing them out..... my personal view of the Intel vs AMD debate anyway........ the intel system did cost an extremely significant amount more to build though.....
sorry for the wall of text....... one just needs to pair up the right components, do their research, and properly tweak/adjust their OS and computer to run the most efficiently.......... something I bet probably 90% of the AH Player base does not do or do correctly...... again, my personal view
TC