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I Currently own an Fx-8350 with some cheap msi 970a motherboard, and i am stuck on the decision of weather or not i should buy a top of the line gaming mother board for my 8350, or weather or not i should buy an I5-6600k and a top of the line gaming motherboard for that. My reason for wanting an I5, is that my 8350 gaming performance isn't exactly desirable, even though i have overclocked it to 4.6 GHz stable. I have seen multiple benchmarks of the I5 vs. the 8350 and all show a significant increase in gaming performance with the 6600k over the 8350. My final question is: Is the 6600k worth the extra 250 dollars, or should i buy a better mobo for the 8350 for 200 dollars?
 
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If you're not happy with the performance of the 8350 now, a new motherboard isn't going to make much difference. It will still bottleneck the newest high end cards and there aren't really any upgrade options. You don't have to spend a fortune on an i5 and motherboard to get better gaming performance.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($54.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($31.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $281.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available...
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Think of the cost of the AMD motherboard as a discount when upgrading to an Intel platform. If you would have spent $100.00 dollars on an AMD board anyway, then you're really only paying an extra $150.00 dollars for the better performance, upgradability, and features that come with Skylake.
 
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Yes i have the sli krait edition mobo and it runs very hot with such a high overclock.


 
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So, im either going to get a $200 mobo for the 8350 or get a $200 mobo and a $250 cpu and $30 ddr4 ram for the intel, my question is: is the extra money for the ram and the cpu worth it in the end or am i better off with the $200 8350 motherboard.
 
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If you're not happy with the performance of the 8350 now, a new motherboard isn't going to make much difference. It will still bottleneck the newest high end cards and there aren't really any upgrade options. You don't have to spend a fortune on an i5 and motherboard to get better gaming performance.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($54.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($31.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $281.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-06 06:18 EDT-0400

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