AMD FX-8320 (Budget Gaming Beast during 2017-2020?)

Just a test of the FX-8320 to see how well it held up in Tripple A games released during Ryzen 1st gen's first few years on the market. Motherboard used is the Gigabyte GA-990FX-Gaming, paired with 16GB of ram and a Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming graphics card. All games, except Dark Souls Remastered, were run at their medium pre-sets to better represent the performance you would expect from an entry level budget gaming build during 2017-2020. Dark Souls Remastered was maxed out.

Games tested are: Control, Dark Souls Remastered, Dirt 5, Doom Eternal, F1-2019, Grid (2019), Metro Exodus, and Warhammer 40K Dawn of War III.

During early 2017, the FX-8320 could be purchased new retail on NewEgg for $125, or at one point, in a combo with a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 R5 and 8GB of HyperX Fury DDR3-1600 RAM for $262 in the US. And that's not to mention buying used, which would have gained you much more savings. In comparison, the Ryzen 5 1400 4c/8t processor launched in April 2017 at $169, before the cost of ram and a motherboard.

Something like the MSI B350 Tomahawk would have run around $110. DDR4 ram prices were astronomically high during 2017, so you would have had to contend with that too. So in a situation like this, what would you have picked in Spring 2017, the new FX-8320 combo, a used FX-8320 combo, or a far more expensive, but somewhat faster Ryzen 5 1400 new retail combo? The FX deals would have left you with more cash in hand to put towards a better GPU, a SSD, or more ram. But investing in the AM4 platform would have gained you a long term upgrade path. Decisions decisions...