AMD FX-8320 Black Edition 3.5GHz Socket AM3+ Eight-Core Processor $154

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To clarify the eight-core debate, there are four modules with 2 integer cores and 1 FP shared. so yes you can have 8 instruction/integer operations going on simultaneously (vs. Hyperthreading which is time slicing within a core) the floating point operations do rely on a single resource, but that's may or may not be a bottleneck depending on the app.