AMD Fx-8350 vs I7-4790

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I currently have an Fx-8350 with 16 gigs of DDR3 and I was wondering if I7-4790 beats the fx 8350 and if it does by how much does it beat it by and a good cost for I7-4790?
 
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If you can stretch you budget, you can get a Ryzen 2600 + B450 mobo + 2x8GB 3000 MHz RAM for ~380 euro (VAT included), or about 435 USD, on Newegg Finland.
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What do you want the 4790 to do? The 4790 beats the fx 8350 in every single way.
 
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The 4770k is similar to the 4790
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-4790-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770K/2293vs1537
 
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NOT in every single way. Just in MOST ways.

However, neither of them are worth buying if you don't already have one and just need a replacement. Motherboards are getting practically impossible to find and are outrageously priced when you do find one. The CPUs themselves aren't terribly expensive, but for the price of a Haswell CPU and motherboard you could easily afford a Ryzen CPU and motherboard that wipes it out just as badly as it wipes out the 8350, probably actually significantly more.

Even a Ryzen 5 wipes the floor with the i7-6700, so you KNOW it seriously whoops some butt on the 4790.

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1554?vs=2112
 
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SgtScream

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He didn't say 4790k. He mentioned the non-k sku that is locked. They can be purchased used on eBay for around $150 and will outright beat FX chip merely due to it's ring bus architecture, let alone single/multi core performance. It's a viable upgrade for any use case, coming from the AM3 platform. My recommendation if purchasing used, is to purchase a locked sku so your are guaranteed a working chip. Purchasing used unlocked k sku's aren't recommended as you have no idea how much voltage the seller had been running through the processor from overclocking.
 
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Yes, it would be a MUCH better option. Myself, I see very little reason in spending money on a nearly entire platform that is more than four years old. That is money much better spent on a platform that is still pretty new AND has both socket and CPU support backwards and forwards on it's motherboards through at least 2021.

How much do you think you can budget for new hardware, regardless of what that hardware might consist of?
 
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To O.P. ^^^^ THIS. The above post is what you definitely should be looking at. I don't have any idea of the prices in Finland, but there is no reason to be looking at a FX 8350 or i7 4790 at the end of 2018. Especially with how amazingly priced the very capable R5 2600 is. It can overclock with relative ease to 4.2Ghz and is the best bang for the dollar gaming processor you can buy. With 6 cores and 12 threads and over two times the IPC of Piledriver (FX 8350) it will hands down beat the pants off of the FX 8350 and i7 4790 in all applications.
 
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