alrise :
i really don't know how would it be a dead platform alot of people owned it....and u know the 8350 does a better work in BF4 the i5 doesn't and hat what i'm afraid of that the future games will run better in the 8350
It is dead, because of 0 upgrade path. There are no new CPU's coming out on AM3+, other than overpriced space heaters, aka FX 9xxx. If you are really concerned with future games, pick up a Xeon 1231v3, and an ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 to offset the cost difference. You would have i7 4770 performance from a cpu $50 cheaper than the i7. FX 8350 cannot touch that CPU, even with all but the most extreme of overclocks.