AMD FX-4350 vs 6300 vs 6350 vs i3 4150 vs 4330 - No OC

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I want to buy a budget PC for gaming and I'm not sure which CPU should I buy.
I'm not interested in OC-ing.

I know that the 4350 has better single core performance than 6300, but is it worth it?

I plan to play a few games which don't have (I hope that they eventually will) multi-core support, like World of Tanks, and in those games the 4350 would be better, but in multi-core the 6300 outperforms the 4350, despite being somewhat cheaper.

Secondly, is the FX-6350 worth the xtra money over the FX-6300?


Then, how do these CPU-s perform compared to 2 i3-s, 4150 and 4330?

And lastly, is the i3-4330 better than the 4150? According to cpubenchmark.net it only has 5096 marks, while 4150 has 5060, which isn't really worth the extra 20 bucks (at least in my country) IMO..

Thanks in advance.
 
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For $23, I would rather buy an aftermarket CPU cooler and turbo / OC the FX-6300. That will already be better than the FX-6350.
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Yes; that motherboard can handle OC very well.

The Intel Core i3 requires a motherboard change. On a purely gaming build, the i3 is better. But the FX-6300 isn't a bad chip. It's great for multi-tasking because it has 6 cores, compared to 2 in the i3. The problem with the FX line of CPUs is that AMD left it. It's a dead socket. That doesn't mean that the CPUs are bad. It just means that you have no good upgrades for the CPUs in that socket.
 
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So you say that i3 is better for gaming? Because that I only need it for that - I currently have a crappy Intel 2 duo E7400, and it's OK for me except for gaming.

If there would be more AM3+ socket CPU's I'd likely go with FX-6300 & cooler and turbo it, but this way.. FX-6300 is a rather cheap CPU, so I guess it won't be very "future proof", and another 100 bucks for mobo when I want to upgrade? Rather an intel.. + a cheaper PSU will be enough this way I guess.

Which i3? I saw that 4130 is more popular than 4150, but I see absolutely no reason to buy a 4130 over a 4150.. Same price, while the 4150 has higher clock speed, newer, etc. Is it only because it is newer?

And a last question : What will limit me, the video card or the CPU, if I buy an i3-4150 and an R9 270X?
More properly said : Will an i3-4150 bottleneck an R9 270X?
 
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The i3 is better purely on a gaming standpoint. So if the only thing you are running are games, then it works great. But if you were to multi-task with gaming and do a bunch of other stuff on the side, the i3 is not as efficient. The FX-6300 is not a bad CPU by any means. It's good for gaming and good for multi-tasking.

The reason the i3 is better is because each individual core of the i3 is more powerful than the individual core of the FX series. In gaming, these two cores are the most important cores.
 
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Well, yes, it's purely gaming standpoint. When I'm gaming, I'm gaming, I have 0-1% CPU load even with this crappy core 2 duo E 7400, got used to it, I didn't (/don't) really have another choice with this CPU.
 
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My advice would be that the FX-6300 justifies its existence by being overclocked. If you aren't going to overclock, I'd go with a Core i3.

As far as the various i3-4xxx's go, they're all going to perform within a very few percent of each other. Its mostly just a matter of +/- 100 MHz here and there.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i3-4340-4330-4130_5.html#sect0
Here's some benchmarks if you're interested.
 
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Going with the i3-4150 then I guess, the performance difference between a better i3 is too big I think for that price.

Or should I get a better i3? And the i3-4150 is better than the 4130, right? (same price)
 
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