Kai Dowin :
Beforehand, I should point that 'being better than Intel for gaming' is bollocks. It might be better than comparable Intel CPUs at a given situation. There isn't such a thing as a brand being better in every single scenario.
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About your gains, it will depend heavily on which game and with which GPU. In most scenarios you shouldn't be seeing any improvement (as the GPU is the performance limiting factor in most titles/cases), although games as BF4 multi player can see healthy gains from faster CPU clock.
I agree, with an i5 haswell you will gain much more perfomance in games, because it has a much higher single-threaded performance, which matters more then multiple cores (especially in multiplayer-games, which are more cpu-bound)
I also have a FX 8320 because im a programmer and web designer and I just need that power for my work
besides I also like to game in my free time and I could overclock it to 4,2 ghz with a vcore of 1,356V on air (noctua nh-u12s with push/pull fan config)
with the h100 you should reach 4,5ghz with ease up to 5ghz, it depends a lot on your chip
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