FX 8350 vs i5 4460

bignastyid

Titan
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Depends on what you are doing. For gaming The Intel is faster as it has superior single threaded performance. The 8350 would be faster if you were using a program that could take advantage of 8 threads(games currently uses 4 or less). I made a couple changes

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£140.60 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£50.88 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Predator 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£31.85 @ Dabs)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.29 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 380 4GB SOC Video Card (£174.89 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 ATX Mid Tower Case (£41.45 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£51.36 @ CCL Computers)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (£12.95 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £543.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-21 22:32 BST+0100