Hendi91 :
That is what I was planning on doing. I am currently looking at ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 because of the price and I have a GTX 980 that I would like the option to do SLI with. In your opinion, is this an okay plan?
sure, the 8350 can drive two 980s and the combo comes out much cheaper than the ~$1000 intel combo, it even beat the intel setup in several tests.
http://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedia/56/amd-fx-8350-powering-gtx-780-sli-vs-gtx-980-sli-at-4k/index.html
I've used a Phenom x6 on a regular hdd on two monitors and there really wasn't much real world difference between it and my much stronger on paper i5 3570k pc. Certainly not worth the much more expensive cost. Unfortunately when I was building my pc I listened to fanboys spouting artificial benchmarks and not real world usage, or I most likely would have went AMD in the first place. On 1080p even a single 980 is overkill tbh. I even played the notorious Starcraft 2 on the Phenom x6 pc on 1080p max settings with an HD 7870ghz edition and it was certainly playable, it would of been even better if I lowered some settings, which contrary to elitists online, isn't the end of the world to have to do >_>
basically what I'm try to get at is, there's definitely a point of diminishing returns. Your current fx 8350 will age very well due to the 8 cores, the consoles are both 8 cores clocked much lower so you'd be good for at least this entire console gen. I was just as happy with a mildly overclocked Phenom x6 on a whimpy cheap MSI 760g mobo vs my much more expensive i5 3570k and expensive z77 motherboard combo. Yes the intel is stronger, but could most people notice a difference? No...I couldn't either. If you're truly truly wanting all the fps in the world, intel is stronger per core, but most people in the world are on a 60hz monitor, 1080p...I bet a significant portion still on 720p, nobody talks about them I'm assuming because they're not on the latest and greatest new thing though.
it just depends on the user honestly. Some people spend thousands on 4k setups, meanwhile I'm happily chugging along on "only" 1080p...