Stuck between two cpu's

[silverlight]

Okay, well my problem is im stuck on the 8350 and the i5 4440 , I will be heavily multitasking and running programs while gaming (skype,teamspeak) , I know theres nowhere to go after the 8350 in terms of performance upgrade, but I dont plan on upgrading for a while when i build this machine and the i5 might fall behind when all games start to use 4 cores and im still running heavy programs in the background, I just need your guys' thought on this.

[zappian]

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CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($243.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $243.95
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[TheKDub]

get the i5, it will perform much better in gaming than the 8350, as it has significantly better single threaded performance. (Even when using all 4 cores it will destroy the 8350 when it uses only 4 cores, and in most situations also when using 8)

 

Or even better, spend a little more and get an i5 4690 or 4690K instead for even more performance, and if you get the k version get a z97 mobo so you can oc, otherwise a h97 mobo is fine.

 

(Note: With higher end GPUs, AMD's CPUs and APUs become bottlenecks, whereas intel's CPUs do very very well)

[silverlight]

So with an 4690(k) I could still manage to get a good gpu all around my $700 budget?

[Ja Krispie]

You could probably fit a 280 in that budget just fine