Solidus_ty :
Why are these all Intel CPU's? Xeon's are not budget friendly. Yes they are much much better than AMD for rendering but AMD can hold its own for Rendering on budget, especially for a low budget build. If you really wanna save more and your looking at doing rendering and such just get a good AMD 8000 series. More cores and MHz = better render times.
Except that the Xeon would still beat an FX, with a healthy overclock. Overclocking requires more money, which negates the budget argument, very quickly. I could pair the Xeon with a cheap H81 board, and it would perform, within any margin of error, the same as if I had it in a high end Z97 board. No need for expensive aftermarket cooling either.
FX would need a more expensive board and cooling, to achieve anywhere close to the same amount of performance. FX is 2+yr old tech, on a dead platform. Don't get me wrong, I own an FX 8320, myself. Microcenter's $100 deal a couple black fridays ago was too good to pass up. I needed something really cheap, for an extra system, and it was cheaper than getting an i3.