Arkaign on 20 December 2014
I think your post may be incomplete. The Athlon x4 is a dumpster fire at this point. I do think the i5 is worth the investment though over the i3. I don't know if the 4300 will ever take off though, it's a 2 module 4 thread chip, whereas the i3 is 2 core 4 thread. Even upcoming games like Project Cars and Evolve have the Haswell i3 beating the 4 module 8 thread 8350, let alone the lowly 4300. I'm not saying it's impossible, but that's a tall order for it to improve that much. Either way the Haswell i5 should be the entry level, no sense going with slow ipc of FX anything, or dual core i3 unless funds are crazy limited.
