Should I buy a FX-8350, or is there something better within the same price range?

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I'm going to be upgrading my computer soon (within the next couple of days) and right now I'm looking at the FX-8350 as my new processor. Right now I have an old AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black 3.2GHz, and I'm looking to get a pretty good upgrade from that for playing current and the upcoming PC games like GTA V, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Witcher 3.

I just wanted to check and see if there were any other options available to me within the price range of the FX-8350 that I might have missed that would be better than the -8350. I'd ideally like nothing higher than $200.
 
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Ideally I would like for the total budget to be under or around $500-600, primarily because I'm already re-using my graphics card for now (GTX 750 Ti) and my power supply (Corsair CX 750W). I'm going to replace my GPU eventually but I just see no reason to replace it right now unless there is some sort of significant upgrade that I'm missing out on.

At the moment all I'm looking to buy is a new case, CPU, RAM and motherboard, as well as a potential hard drive upgrade from my current 500GB one.
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Hi there,

And if you're really looking at the AMD Market, your best bet is to use an AMD APU. As the FX series of Processors are based on the Bulldozer architecture after K10 with your CPU.

However Bulldozer was a total flop, with power draw being bigger and performance being slower than K10.

However, with AMD's APU market being the A10 and A8 area, would be in the same price as the 8350 and giving you much better performance as a CPU. And having 8 Cores would not help you a lot in todays software as not very many games or programs work with the extra cores.

I suggest the AMD A10-7850k as it's got great gaming benchmarks up there with the i5-4670k and if you have a RADEON GPU that's around the mid-range. You are able to hybrid-Crossfire the 2 GPU's for better gaming performance. And if you have an older RADEON, the integrated iGPU of the APU would be probably a bit faster than it. It has unlocked multipliers and 4 cores which is great for the price range.

I personally have used all the Intel Core i Series as well as AMD's FX and APU line, and honestly. Hyperthreads are bollocks.
 
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Just so we're clear, is $200 the CPU budget, or total budget for the upgrade?
 
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So... if you had to choose an i5, which would you recommend? I'm willing to bust out the extra $50 for the i5-4690K if it means I'll get a better processor. I also have no intention of overclocking, if that matters.

EDIT: $200-250 is just for the CPU upgrade.
 
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We need to know what your total budget is.
 
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Ideally I would like for the total budget to be under or around $500-600, primarily because I'm already re-using my graphics card for now (GTX 750 Ti) and my power supply (Corsair CX 750W). I'm going to replace my GPU eventually but I just see no reason to replace it right now unless there is some sort of significant upgrade that I'm missing out on.

At the moment all I'm looking to buy is a new case, CPU, RAM and motherboard, as well as a potential hard drive upgrade from my current 500GB one.
 
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If you are not going to overclock, get an Intel Core i5-4690 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116989

Or the very respectable Core i5-4590 for $200 and a free game thrown in. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116991

 
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