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David_Chrisp
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Hey guys, Soon I'm looking to upgrade my CPU. It's an old Phenom 965 and i don't know weather to go Intel with a 4670k and a nice Z87 board or keep my current motherboard (Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3) and get an FX8350 to save money. If i move to Intel and spend more will I see much difference in gaming over an 8350? 

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I think it would be better to go for the 8350. In-game performance is basically the same and with multi-core optimisations coming it might even outperform it. On top of that you save money.

 

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Your Phenom is fine but if you're looking to upgrade an 8350 would be the wisest decision since you've already got the board. & You will not see a big difference in gaming over Intel since the 8350 essentially performs like a 1st gen i7 in games.

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No, keep the 8350, you won't see any really noticeable difference going for 4670k + Z87. You already have a good motherboard for OC, so you won't have to buy anything other than the CPU itself. Spend the saved money on something that will matter, like a SSD (if you don't have one) or maybe a GPU upgrade ;)

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If you are thinking of upgrading, go with the FX-8350. The reason for this is that the 4670K and 8350 perform nearly identically in an awful lot of games, but if you intend to stream or multitask go with the FX-8350 as you will be able to get a higher frame rate whilst streaming and playing, leaning towards a better experience for you without your viewers have to cope with sub par quality. However with the 4670K you will have better single threaded performance and will excel when compared to the FX-8350.

 

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You wouldn't see too much of a difference between performance. Maybe a few FPS more with Intel vs AMD but that can be negligible.

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If you don't want extreme OC, just get the FX8320, OC it to 8350 speeds and save even more money.

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