I5-3330s or AMD X4 860k @ 4.3 ghz

[Smoothieblit]

Hi there, I have an old PC given to me with a i5-3330s. I have a gtx 970 and want to know what CPU will work best.

 

[Smoothieblit]

Sure 860k is a very fine cpu you need to read this artical that is a very well witten

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-a10-7890k-gaming-performance-benchmark,review-33503.html

It's the new AMD cpu and the artical shows the power and the weaknesses it has. Amd is planning to release even newer 14 nm cpu's and GPU's that they are allready in productions as you see hear

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-zen-polaris-14nm-finfet,news-52526.html

they sendign samples left and right for testing maybe is better to wait for some time.

I have both CPUs so which should I use

 

[Ecky]

The i5 should be at least 50% faster per clock, so even clocked at only 3.2ghz, the i5 will be faster than the 4.3ghz Athlon.