AMD FX8350 or intel i5 4460?

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Basically i'm building a new PC and will be ordering all the parts in a day, i have pretty much decided on everything that i want though i have seen people saying online that the AMD FX8350 is better for gaming than the intel i5 4460.

If the AMD FX8350 is better for gaming are there any AM3+ motherboards that are compatible with SLI that also support 2 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0 in the price range roughly of the ASRock z87 extreme3 mobo?

my motherboard isn't compatible with the AMD CPU as it isnt AM3+ Compatible.
 
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The FX8350 may be better for some games, but the performance should be pretty comparable; it will perform worse in others. People online make all sorts of unfounded claims. Here are some benchmarks for you including a few games:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/697?vs=1368
The CPU selected is not exactly the same as your model, but its performance should be very similar. Look at the i5 3470 as well. The 4460 should be between them.
AMD vs Intel is definitely a matter of personal preference. For what you have listed, my preference would be for Intel. The savings in power use/heat generation are pretty significant over AMD. Since I pay my own power bill and keep my computer on all the time, I care about this.
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The FX8350 may be better for some games, but the performance should be pretty comparable; it will perform worse in others. People online make all sorts of unfounded claims. Here are some benchmarks for you including a few games:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/697?vs=1368
The CPU selected is not exactly the same as your model, but its performance should be very similar. Look at the i5 3470 as well. The 4460 should be between them.
AMD vs Intel is definitely a matter of personal preference. For what you have listed, my preference would be for Intel. The savings in power use/heat generation are pretty significant over AMD. Since I pay my own power bill and keep my computer on all the time, I care about this.
My rule of thumb for performance is that right now, AMD and Intel provide roughly the same average performance at the same price point. AMD gets you more cores (useful for serious data crunching that very few people can actually take advantage of) and intel gets you lower power usage.
 
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I love AMD, but would personally go with the i5. Even though the performance is similar, you still get the advantage of better single core performance for games that require high single core performance. The i5 is great for both, while the FX is great for multiple threads and just ok for heavily single-threaded games.
 
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@calculagator im not bothered by the extra heat/more electricity usage. At the moment in the UK the AMD FX 8350 is cheaper than the i5 4460 and is clocked to 4 GHZ as the i5 4460 is only @ 3.2 and i can even overclock the FX8350 since the clock speed is much higher would the FX 8350 in general be better at gaming?
 
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No it won't be better. If overclocked, it will match the i5's performance in SOME games, and fall short in many others. Overall it will be worse. What kind of performance you expect and what games you play are variables you need to address. For most large online games, the i5 will be significantly better. The performance will be closer in singleplayer games that are not CPU intensive.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4et7kDGSRfc
actually according to this and many other reports the power use difference is only at a minuscule level...yeh it adds up but its not that much, infact according to this the difference is same as the price difference (cheaper amd ofc) over 3 years of constantly leaving ur pc on
 
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I agree with you as far as cost is concerned, but I consider other factors more important. The extra 70w or so of the FX over Intel won't cost you too much, but it will generate 70w of extra heat which will require some combination of more expensive cooling or louder cooling. That extra heat can make quite a difference if you have high ambient temps or a small case.

I don't think the power usage is a reason to not use AMD chips. Their chips are fine. But, if performance and cost are equal between Intel and AMD, the lower power/heat, gives Intel an advantage.
 
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I don't think you would go wrong with either chip. For your use, the i5 is still probably more powerful, but it won't be by a noticeable margin in most cases.

Comparing the GHz is only valid when comparing AMD to AMD or Intel to Intel. With their current chip architecture, AMD needs something like twice as many cores and a ~30% faster clock to keep up with Intel.
 
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