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My recommendation is a Skylake i5 6500, with either an H110 motherboard (very inexpensive), or a B150 board for $15 more to give you 2 more RAM slots.

An i3 6100 would not be a bad choice either, and it's faster than an 860K, even when that chip is heavily overclocked. Intel CPUs hold their value so well that you could probably resell the i3 in 8 months for almost exactly what you paid, and drop in an i5 or i7. That might free up enough of your budget to get a slightly nicer motherboard.

Either i3 or i5 can be used with the stock cooler (they're only 65w CPUs). If you go with the H110 board, I'd suggest a single stick of DDR4, despite the fact that you'd get a small performance hit from running in single-channel. This is to preserve...
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Zen is still about 6 months away if it doesn't get delayed into next year, so that's a potentially long wait. As for getting the FX 8320, it's really not worth it at this point unless you're looking to build a video editing rig and need to do it on a very tight budget. For gaming, a Core i3 setup will do slightly better 9 times out of 10 and a Core i5 will absolutely smoke the FX 8320 in everything aside from synthetic benchmarks and maybe video encoding.
 
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Thank you for all of your suggestions. I think I'll wait. But I have very shitty pc. I can barely run 720p video on youtube, not even talking about gaming. But for the summer I think I will get 860k + a88x board. And then In autumn high end i5 or zen cpu.
 
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Why not buy an i5 right now? I expect the fall refresh will only bring 0-10% gains, tops. Spending the better part of $200 on components you can't reuse seems a waste.

AMD's new Zen architecture might being their CPU line closer to Intel's CPUs, but I would not expect them to surpass Intel's offerings.
 
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I'm on really thight budget. But what do you suggest- do you think I should get haswell i5 or skylake. The skylake is much more expensive than the haswell. And which cpu to be exact
 
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My recommendation is a Skylake i5 6500, with either an H110 motherboard (very inexpensive), or a B150 board for $15 more to give you 2 more RAM slots.

An i3 6100 would not be a bad choice either, and it's faster than an 860K, even when that chip is heavily overclocked. Intel CPUs hold their value so well that you could probably resell the i3 in 8 months for almost exactly what you paid, and drop in an i5 or i7. That might free up enough of your budget to get a slightly nicer motherboard.

Either i3 or i5 can be used with the stock cooler (they're only 65w CPUs). If you go with the H110 board, I'd suggest a single stick of DDR4, despite the fact that you'd get a small performance hit from running in single-channel. This is to preserve your ability to drop in more RAM later.
 
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I would rather pick a good Z170 motherboard with i3 6100 and upgrade to i5 K version in the future when get more money ;)
 
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I had an *old* core 2 Q6600@3.2 and decided to get a 8370 because of its price, and the fact that it's a powerful CPU no matter what people say. I do some video encodings and some editings as well, the 8 cores are very well used then. I play some games sometimes, all of them using the best visual configuration without any lag. Sometimes I encode and play and I don't notice any lag either.
I was able to buy more memory because of the price I got the FX, and the fan I bought will be used again IF I switch to another CPU. But sincerely, I don't see why I would get rid of my actual rig, it's a fast one, it does what I want and need, and more. The AM3+ motherboards might be the last ones before the Zen architecture comes out, but so what? I kept my Q6600 for almost 8 years, I might keep my 8370 a long long time too, it has enough inside to compete too.
 
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