Phenon II X6 1090T or 8320E

[Magic Carpet]

I honestly don't know why anyone would spend their money on an FX CPU

I honestly, don't know why anyone would spend their money on Intel dual-core CPUs anymore. Both are bad purchases in 2016 for different reasons, IMHO. But people do. With the FX, you are getting good MT performance at least, which is getting increasingly more important day by day, but to each their own, I guess. I like when I manually do virus scans (using 3 threads on my system, for example) my desktop experience remains as smooth and responsive as before. Intel dual-cores (i.e. i3 6100) are good only when not stressed, though. i5-6500 has been my new recommended minimum as of late.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I honestly don't know why anyone would spend their money on an FX CPU unless they absolutely didn't have it for a new Intel system and already owned an AM3+ board with no viable CPU at the moment (the OP does). I bought an FX-8320E last winter to build a PC for a family member from "unused" parts (not recycled from a main PC that was in use as most do). They ended up getting a laptop so I've kept it for now. It IS sad. An i5-2500k can almost keep up with an FX 8 core in productivity and beat it in most gaming scenarios. Its basically a four year old CPU (that was marginal at the time) trying to keep up with new and much more capable products.

I know its older, but I just do not have that experience with my FX. To me it is kind of like being able to get a deal on a brand new Sandy CPU + motherboard, if they were still in production... for the right cost and use it may make a lot of sense. Sure it isn't as good all around, but say you could get an unlocked i7 + motherboard for the costs we're talking here, in some situations it may be a tempting buy.

 

[ET]

Looking at Anandtech's Bench (and 1100T vs. 8320E, because the 1090T doesn't have gaming benchmarks), for general processing the 8320E can win big in many cases, but there isn't a big difference in most games. So if gaming is the main reason for the upgrade, it might not be worth while.