Core i3 4130 vs AMD FX 6300 (No Gaming)

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I am building a PC and won't be playing games. Which processor would be more suited for everyday usage (browsing, videos, etc.) I know Core i3 has hyper-threading which helps in some situations but the FX 6300 has 6 cores, which sounds a lot more appealing. The GPU I am getting is the Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 Vapor-X.
 
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If you decide to ever play games, the FX 6300 will be better at it. it is also much better at multi threaded workloads and raw processing power intensive applications. However the FX is somewhat more juicy in terms of power requirements.

I would also state that hyperthreading is not a widely used thing at the moment and I would also emphasize that programming software to exploit more cores is easier than programming it to exploit hyperthreading.
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If you decide to ever play games, the FX 6300 will be better at it. it is also much better at multi threaded workloads and raw processing power intensive applications. However the FX is somewhat more juicy in terms of power requirements.

I would also state that hyperthreading is not a widely used thing at the moment and I would also emphasize that programming software to exploit more cores is easier than programming it to exploit hyperthreading.
 
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I've learned first hand that there is indeed stuff out there that ordinary people benefit from strong graphics cards which are not games. If you cannot fathom it then its just a failure of broadening horizons on your part.
 
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I must have misunderstood his intent of " everyday usage (browsing, videos, etc.)"

 
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I'd opt for the i3 4150.
You have a much better upgrade path if you will be keeping the system for a few years, as the AMD's AM3+ is a dead socket, i.e. no future better cpus coming out. The intel has less cores but faster per-core performance and will likely do most of the tasks you described faster than the AMD, but not all. Later on if you need more power, slam in an i7 4790, or Xeon E3-1220 v3 if you get into video rendering or something...
 
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Question is hardly off-topic. OP is building a computer for everyday usage and such simple tasks hardly need a discrete graphics card. You linked two articles of the same benchmarks from PC World (which benched using a top-tier card "280x") and neither of them give much fact to the argument of needing one for a basic machine. (I don't consider- "image-editing program like Photoshop, data-encryption software, or a distributed-computing project like Folding@Home or Seti@Home" or "bit coin mining" -- to be every day usage) If a ~$100 graphics card is what's needed for unstated reasons then so be it. In that case I'd recommend the i3 for reasons already explained by spliceberry101. But if you don't need that GPU then better performance could be found in some other area of the system. Be it a better CPU, more ram or an SSD instead of HDD.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that, by that logic, 90% of laptops (like the one I have with a mobile i5) are suffering through their day to day tasks without a discrete GPU. Yet I find no problem in web browsing, light gaming, photoshopping, watching HD movies, etc...
 
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