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Yea but the laptop gets extreme heat and I think intel chips start to bog down to dissipate heat.

Intel chips have higher heat thresholds than AMD chips do. All laptops in general generate extreme heat, especially while gaming.

Yes, but that's not my point. Comparing the performance of a CPU in a laptop to that of a CPU in a desktop is a bit unfair.

That said, have you bought the parts for your PC? I'm curious to see what you ended up with.

I think the general rule (if I recall correctly) is that for under $1000, AMD/ATI is the way to go for cpu and gpu.
Anything more expensive and you want intel/nvidia.
That was true a couple of years ago and I think it still holds today.

Still though, for linux compatibility I avoid amd/ati like the plague. Their cpus are usually OK but for gpus nvidia is still more or less the best option. Troubleshooting catalyst drivers in linux is a bitch to behold.