AMD 6100 not Performing well with Asus GTX 970

[Kaustav Banerjee]

Hey

Guys I have a problem. I had purchased my comp around 2012 with a gtx 650. Recently I have upgraded my card to GTX 970 as some games were not running well on the gtx 650.

I played assassins creed unity i barely got more than 35 Fps with ultra settings in FULL HD 1920x1080. I thought it was a badly optimized game

Currently playing GTA5 same thing the FPS is never constant. I get a lot of fps drops from 29 - 55 and its very annoying.

By reading diff websites came to know my CPU is Junk and its bottlenecking my GPU.

I wanted to change it to amd fx 8350. I called up the store they said they are having the last stocks for that model as its end of life and amd producing no more.

I dont want to purchase anything that has come to its product life end. I want to buy a CPU that can give me at least 4 yrs of gaming.

Plz suggest me what should I do should I buy the CPU or wait for some new models to come out

 

[Stratis123]

Hello, im my opinion buy the 8350 is a dignified cpu. But because I will buy the same gpu in 2 weeks I will buy an intel cpu because the 8350 is old for nowadays but its ok I have a friend that he have 8350 with the asus gtx 970 and he hasn't got problems. I hope that I helped. (sorry for my bad English)

 

[jacquesfrost13]

try oc'ing your cpu if it helps.

 

[Jay Stew]

I bought the FX-8350 back in Jan, got around to putting it together in Feb I think, It rocks. It is an oct core processor so it will be useful for sure for the next 4 years. The Intel options which compete with this are more pricy and less suited to multitasking until you get up into the $300+ range. I can report that it does not bottleneck the GTX 970 and that you should experience a much better flow with the FX. Plus the FX is very overclockable on air even. I have mine running at 4.6 up from the stock 4.0. Runs great. I can stream or record with OBS at 60fps without losing any frames or seeing any slow downs or render a video edit while gaming and you simply can't do that on the i5. Use CPU boss compare to compare your chip to the FX-8350 I'm quite sure you'll be enlightened.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-FX-8350-vs-AMD-FX-6100. I'm actually surprised your cpu uses more power than the FX-8350. That to me means it probably won't overclock as well because it is already using alot of its thermal headroom. You will want to pair the FX-8350 with a decent mobo whichhas good VRM redundancy and stability as insufficient power limits the cpu as well from my research.

The one I picked was the MSI 970 Gaming which is at $100 has some USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports, good audio and not a bunch of other BS frills. It does allow you to prioritize gaming packets too forwhatever that might get you if it isn't a gimmick. The FX takes an AM3+ socket/board so if you already have that just check overclockers.net and see if the FX is well supported by your setup then maybe you can just pick one up from Amazon. The comparable offering from Intel and they have a large range of i5's but the ones that really look good are the latest models i5 4xxx and those run at least $220-$240, a lot of that is to pay for Intel marketing, they only have 4 cores, and while they will give you faster fps, perhaps 90 instead of 80 LOL, due to better single core performance, you wont notice the difference unless you are an android. If you ever stream your gaming, or record with OBS, or make a movie and do video editing or rendering, all of that is done better or practical to do simultaneously with the FX while you can't really do that with the i5.

If you want the best of the best i7 is where it is at. But get out your wallet because even shitty i7s are pricy. If you go Intel I think you may have to upgrade your mobo and if you stick with FX you might be able to get away with what you have. Good luck.