AMD CPU's are not competitive at all with Intel.
Check how the FX 8350 competes with other CPUs in Skyrim here:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/11/06/amd-fx-8350-review/6
And read the reviewers conclusion a few pages later:
"AMD remains deeply uncompetitive in primarily single threaded applications such as games without offering the significant benefits in multi-threaded applications you’d expect from a chip boasting eight cores. Peak power consumption remains higher than Intel too and it’s these fundamental issues that mean the FX-8350 just isn’t a competitive CPU. Despite the drop in price, there’s almost no reason to opt for the FX-8350 in comparison to the Intel competition; it seems that while AMD’s changed lots of little things about the FX-8350, the end result remains largely the same."
Check also what this reviewer says about the FX 8350:
http://techreport.com/review/23750/amd-fx-8350-processor-reviewed/14
"The overall performance scatter offers some good news for AMD fans: the FX-8350 outperforms both the Core i5-3470 and the 3570K in our nicely multithreaded test suite. As a result, the FX-8350 will give you more performance for your dollar than the Core i5-3570K, and it at least rivals our value favorite from Intel, the Core i5-3470.
Pop over to the gaming scatter, though, and the picture changes dramatically. There, the FX-8350 is the highest-performance AMD desktop processor to date for gaming, finally toppling the venerable Phenom II X4 980. Yet the FX-8350's gaming performance almost exactly matches that of the Core i3-3225, a $134 Ivy Bridge-based processor. Meanwhile, the Core i5-3470 delivers markedly superior gaming performance for less money than the FX-8350. The FX-8350 isn't exactly bad for video games—its performance was generally acceptable in our tests. But it is relatively weak compared to the competition."
Bottom line:
Don't go for an AMD CPU if you can at all afford an Intel chip.
If you can't afford it right now, it's better to save up a few more months so you can get an Intel.
I must stress I don't have any preference at all for either CPU maker.
If it was the other way around I would not hesitate to recommend AMD over Intel.
All I'm trying to do is to be helpful for you so you don't make a decision you will regret in the long run.
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