If on a budget, I'd look hard at the gaming benchmarks of R5-3600, occasionally as low as $167 these days....; I'd be happier with 12 threads over only 6, and more confident of sufficient minimum FPS for future games. (Oddly enough, the R3-3300X at only $120 almost matches the R5-3600 in gaming, despite having only four cores and 8 threads...)