Budget gaming: CPU choices

I just don't understand overclocking as a baseline for performance when you don't need to. Fine for benchmarking, not for everyday gaming. That's just my take on it and the FX-8350 will be more than adequate for gaming.

I've had a 6350 at 4.6, 4100 at 4.7, and a stock 3770k. The stock 3770k beat the 6350 at 4.6 while gaming. Instantly saw more and smoother frames. I'm just saying, throgh my experience with AMD I would ALWAYS. Spend the extra money to get Intel. It takes the 8350 (8 core and overclocked) to meet the performance of a 3570k at stock.

I'm not arguing an FX-8350 will equal or beat a 3570/4670 or 3770/4770 because it won't, but the OP isn't in the price range for those sort of CPUs. For his budget the FX chips do provide great value for money, if he had £200 or so to spend on a CPU I'd be recommending the i5 or i7 all day long, it's why I upgraded to one myself.

He was debating between the Intel Pentium or another similar AMD cpu. So was just saying that the Intel is the better choice between the two. Benchmarks say so too.

The benchmark showed an 860, the 8350 is better than the 860. That was my point.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

If I recall correctly, i3s are dual core and i5s are quad core.

Not always. There are dual-core Core i5s. i3s are always dual-core though. For that matter, the i7 has dual-core low power versions (my Surface Pro 3 has one).