Chimras

it works, thanks

it works, thanks

nope. wont fit.
 
get noctua fans instead

Anything over 90% should be adequate, but 99% is just the safest.

If you can wait a few months, do so for polaris and pascal video cards to come out, as they will be more powerful than those 980tis likely.

so disable the OC and see if it makes any difference, got it

mark 1 looks sexy as fuck with the armor so why not

first helping me with AMD now Intl, thanks dude

In the best case scenarios I've seen, a "HT" core is worth half of a real one. So in these cases, a quad core with HT has about the equivalent power as a 6 core without HT. Cinebench shows some improvement but I don't experiment with that much. Last time I tried it on my main system to get a HT on/off baseline set the CPU test scored 31% higher with HT on and no other changes. Other cases I've seen a 50% improvement is a long disappeared distributed computing project called LifeMapper. Sieve tasks on prime finding projects also show a big boost but I don't think it was the full 50%.
 
I haven't done 1st hand testing, but I believe in some cases where people used i3 processors in gaming boxes, leaving HT on was able to show an improvement in gaming performance presumably as 2 cores without was CPU limiting, and any boost helped. But this didn't seem to help with quads (for now).
 
Where I've seen a performance decrease from HT is in compute tasks that do not benefit from HT at all. HT uses spare parts of the core to handle more, but some tasks already utilise the processor to the max there is nothing for HT to give, except additional management overhead and thus a small decrease in performance. Windows scheduling doesn't help either, if I run 4 tasks with HT on, you can see them wander around all 8 processor threads, and I think they're tripping over themselves for typical 10% drop in performance. If I either set affinity so they only run on one thread per physical core, or turn off HT altogether, that 10% loss goes away.

Sorry, i mostly asked about AMD not Intel...

Dont get the most expensive motherboard on the market, downgrade it a bit so you can buy better or more stuff. If you downgrade your motherboard to a 100$ you could upgrade your Graphics card to probably a 980 ti

Nope.

If it has to be on AM3+ (because you already own a high end AM3+ board), then FX8320, they're basically the same cpu, so the cheaper one is the better one. 

9370 Is a waste of $, all it is is an OC 8350. 

@Chimras The FX 8320. You can overclock it to the speed of the 8370 without problems. 

your rig would pull around ~500W when under gaming load, so the AX860i would be more efficient
also, its best to get a smaller wattage psu due to efficiency during idle
and some PSU shuts down if the wattage is too low (but i doubt this will happen to these psu but meh)
 
conclusion, im a AXi fanboy