fsXDFayngbrandbrandthrow all of it away, ati/amd in general is a shitty company unless you get their best fucking graphics card but cpu wise, they suck, get intel, their are more power per core, they are hyper threaded, and tf2 only reads up to 4 cores, so amd/ati's special 6, 8, and 12 cores dont help. Im using intel i5 only 2.5 ghz, and integrated hd 4000 graphics card, and im getting about 120 fps without a config on dx 98 on highest settings, 200 on his high frames config, dont need to go high then that, and i run on an external monitor almost twice the size of my laptops monitor, so, yea, take my advice, and dont use amd ever again.AMD is actually a really good company and all he extra cores work very well for getting fps while streaming, I don't know why a lot of people here think AMD is shitty and intel is god.
the rule of thumb i've always gone by is AMD is best for lower end budget builds, and intel is better for higher end builds
And as a side note, if you ever get into top grade ricer bullshit like for-profit bitcoin mining (lol) and benchmarking the absolute highest performance hardware: they tend to exchange blows on the very cutting edge constantly. for example, AMD cards are typically much better at extremely parallel tasks like bitcoin mining, while nvidia has the highest performance card in terms of general 3D more often (but not at every point in time).