i5 4670K or Fx-8350, upgrade worth the hassle?

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xasylum

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So basically I currently have a Phenom II x4 945, and I plan on selling it for around $80 to a friend that wants a CPU upgrade, and If I were to switch to Intel I would sell my Mobo as well, to a total price $190 or so, and then buy the i5 and a board in the price range similar to mine(~140), So I'm wondering should I switch over to Intel and buying a new cpu and board, or is the performance gain not worth it in gaming compared to the FX-8350

Current Setup:
CPU: Phenom II X4 945
MOBO: ASRock MB-990EX4
GPU: HD 6870 (plan to upgrade to 770 in a bout a month)
Ram: 8GB
PSU: 750w

Games I usually play
Arma 2&3
Heavily modded Skyrim + Fallout
Battlefield 4
Occasionally some rendering as well.
 
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Get the 8320. You already have an AMD3+ motherboard and the few exra 100MHz offered by the 8350 compared to the 8320 isnt worth it if you don't have water cooling or one completely kickass motherboard.
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Lessthannil

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Get the 8320. You already have an AMD3+ motherboard and the few exra 100MHz offered by the 8350 compared to the 8320 isnt worth it if you don't have water cooling or one completely kickass motherboard.
 
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So is the only difference that the 8350 has over the 8320 is that is clocked higher?

If so I could probably overclock to the 8350 clock with my 212 Evo?
 
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On hwbot, it appears that the 8320 and 8350 overclock about the same - the 8350 only gets 100MHz more.

The BF4 benchmark results are difficult to interpret - it depends which patched version is being looked at, and it also appears that the 8350 only really eclipses the i5 chips in 64-player maps.

When comparing i5 to 8350, it is worth looking at minimum frame rates - the 8350 often has a lower average FPS than an equivalent i5, but has a higher minimum FPS, which is probably more important.
 
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