appaws
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I won't make an argument for the 8350 here, it speaks for itself I think. It's not a great CPU but a very good CPU for its price. IPC is not the be-all end-all that this forum thinks it is and not everyone needs a rock solid 60fps for an enjoyable experience. People's budgets should dictate expectations and for its price point the 8350 really can't be beat. Regardless, when cranked up to 4GHz+ (and it easily does reach 4.4Ghz) the 8350 should give you no IPC troubles in most games.
That said, the bolded part makes absolutely no sense. Advising intel because of upgrade paths, what? Intel has how many different platforms out now? It's a huge mess to migrate from one CPU family to another for absolutely no reason. I mean, if you tell me that there is nothing to upgrade from a 8350 to, that would be fine, but considering upgrading an Intel CPU almost always also requires a mainboard upgrade, who the fuck cares? What will you buy instead, a Skylake or Haswell i3? What will you upgrade from that to? Maybe I'm missing something here, but it makes no sense to me..
I like AMD. I like plucky underdogs in general...
...but Haz is right here. There are just too many use cases, especially on the gaming side, where the 8350 is outperformed by the price equivalent Intel part. Maybe Zen will change things, and all of us want to see some real competition in the space, but it is not here yet.