Out of order is fine.

The idea that some games somehow don't run on an 8320 is absurd. My younger brother is running an 8320 with a 290 right now and gets stupid high fps in Arma 3 and DayZ.

OCing doesn't give performance benefits on the i5/i7's, but it sure does on the AMD chips, so why not leverage that? OC the AMD chip and get better performance in games. Bang.

Passmark shows exactly what everybody says (and I agree with). The AMD chips perform well (especially for the money) but lack in single-thread performance compared to i5's due to the architecture. This does not somehow result in a terrible experience in every game or make it a bad purchase, it means that KSP and a few other games might not hit a billion FPS maxed out. For poops and giggles, have the PassMark comparison between the 4690K and the 4790K showing better scores for the 4790K but similar single thread ratings. I bet if we overclocked the 4690K a tad, we'd end up with identical single threaded performance. Seems like PassMark shows us what we need to know for gaming performance, huh?

I think these chips are going to be particularly valuable in the coming year as DX12 and the new OpenGL take up what Mantle was doing and offload CPU work to other hardware, making the CPU choice for gaming matter less and less apart from the $$ spent.

For the price/performance, the 8320 allows more budget room for other stuff, like a GPU, that affect gaming. If I wanted to drop the ATX board down to a $45 mATX board it would still beat the $175 i5 in price/performance. I put these builds together for the benefit of expansion and some reasonable longevity.

That said, the i5 4xxx isn't a bad chip, nor does it get wrecked by the 8320 (other than price). I recommend AMD for the budget room it frees up for other shit. I don't know why you're so mad.