Good cpu for gaming. AMD FX 8350?

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Building a good gaming pc found AMD FX 8350 to be the best option in my budget (around $200). My only concern is that people say amd's heat up a lot. I'm from india where the weather is hot most of the year. Any other options u might suggest?
 
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yeah but OC'ng the FX 6300 would be easy on that mobo, i had that setup at 4.5 Ghz easily with a Hyper 212 EVO cooler and it was a beast. I upgraded to an FX 8320 and its a downgrade in some games. So that combo is great, will have no problems with those games. but you will want to OC, just telling you ahead of time. out of the box my...
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I will be playing the latest games like GTA V, COD advanced warfare, FarCry 4 etc. Don't u think that 6300 will be under powered?

I was planning on getting these:
AMD FX 8350
ASUS M5A97
Sapphire HD 7850 2GB GDDR5

I don't have any knowledge of OverClocking, crossfire etc and will use everything stock only, at least for maybe 1 year. maybe i'll try these after some time.

Should I get 6300 and a more powerful gpu?

Should I get a cheaper mobo as I am not going to OC etc?

Does 8350 really has heating problems even with decent (but not very expensive) cooler.

Its interesting to find that on all the websites in India, AMD processors are more popular than intel (maybe b'cos of price). And I cant find any intel processor around the price of 8350 which is better than it (at least in specs and reviews). moreover 8350 is 8 core which is better for future gaming and also has better potential to be overclocked than most of the intel cpus.
 
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Found another card: Sapphire AMD/ATI Radeon Dual-X R9 270X with Boost OC 2 GB DDR5

I think it will be better than 7850.

And what about this cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO
 
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For gaming purposes alone i think an FX 6300 at 4.5 Ghz with an r9 280x would be better than an FX 8320 @ 4.3 Ghz with an HD 7850. I know the newer games are better at scaling across multiple threads but even still 6 is quite a bit, they usually mean 4-6 anyhow. I have the FX 8320 and i also had the FX 6300 and i sometimes regret the upgrade for what even feels like a hit in performance sometimes (since single core was higher on my FX 6 core. the 8 cores only help in few games and in my 3d modeling software).
 
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As I have said above, I don't know anything about Overclocking & I will be using only stock hardware.
Considering my budget, what if I get fx 6300 with r9 270x (280x is bit pricy), ASUS M5A97 with 4gb ram (will add 4gb later?
Will this pc be able to run games like COD advanced warfare, FarCry 4 etc?
If not, will it be able to run relatively older games like gta 4, Farcry 3, COD modern warfare etc?
 
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yeah but OC'ng the FX 6300 would be easy on that mobo, i had that setup at 4.5 Ghz easily with a Hyper 212 EVO cooler and it was a beast. I upgraded to an FX 8320 and its a downgrade in some games. So that combo is great, will have no problems with those games. but you will want to OC, just telling you ahead of time. out of the box my FX 6300 was a bit jittery until i made it static 4.2 Ghz minimum.
 
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