I'm assuming you're going to use this for gaming, and for that even an i5 beats FX9590, so you'd be much better off buying that. Get an i7 if your budget allows that. Yes, in raw numbers AMD seems better, but any non-synthetic benchmark or CPU test will prove otherwise. Also Intel CPUs tend to run much, much cooler, meaning that if you get a K-series CPU and a mobo that supports overclocking, you'll be able to get quite a nice stable overclock with that cooling system of yours.