Don't worry about it Josh, some people get really hard up on one brand.

Despite what my Avatar suggests, I run Intel in my laptop, I am not really biased.

AMD puts up numbers that are pretty damn close or even better than the i7-2600k in some cases (not bad for a processor about 75$ cheaper.

Intel or AMD; your still going to have PC, a kick ass at that.

BTW the hierarchy is i7 > FX 8c > i5 > *