FX-4100 or FX-6100?

[saint7269]

So witch one would you guy/girls pick? It will be for gaming and general internet use. It will also be teamed with one of the new AMD 7000+ GPU's or 2 in the near future. I'm not saying I'm going to run right out and buy one. I would just like to hear for some of the people running them. I have an AM3+ build I built over the summer. This is my build ATM if you want to see it. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/320049-28-will-athlon-bottleneck-7000

 

[nna2]

FX-6100 will give you better preformance... although i would suggest moving back to a phenomii x4 or x6, there a little more sound

 

[manu 11]

grab the x4 955, far better than fx.

 

[Guest]

Grab the 960T, quick before they are gone, as no phenomII or athlonII is being shipped anymore from amd!!

 

[nna2]

Grab the 960T, quick before they are gone, as no phenomII or athlonII is being shipped anymore from amd!!

0.0 i really want to get my hands on one of those 6 cores, better get moving on that lol

 

[loneninja]

I would get a Phenom II before either of those processors, but between the 2 I would grab the FX 6100, it's at least able to match a Phenom II X4 in most tasks due to having more cores. FX 4100 is SLOW, without overclocking its actually slower than your Athlon II X4 lol

 

[jaguarskx]

Get a Phenom II X4 CPU.

There is no need to buy a 6 core Phenom II X6 since games only use at most 4 cores at best and the 4th core does improve performance by much (~ 6% on average vs. using 3 cores) for those games that can use 4 cores.

 

[jerry6]

I had a board waiting for the new AMD BD , after seeing the specs and test runs bought a 1090t as the BD offered no real world improvements . For now the x6 P II is the way to go

 

[nforce4max]

An AM3+ can be a good investment if they manage years from now to actually get out something decent enough to be worth getting but for now Phenom 2 x4 or go Greedtel. If all else is to expensive Llano A8 is worth it.

 

[smokeymicpot42]

Amd fx isn't as bad as every makes it out to be. Yes its not the intel killer we all knew it wasn't going to be. But it is what amd needed to move forward something new. MAybe piledriver won't be much but look how long it takes amd to come back the readon 2k sucked but 3k got a little but and now people love the 6k line. amd is haven to do the same thing with its cpu. I had the p2 955 black for 2 years and it was ok. I had it over clocked to 3.8 gigs. I now have the amd fx 8120 over clocked to 4.3 gig and it dose in the real world feel faster. Im not a intel fan as i have only ran a intel chip once and it blew up on start up never got to see ***. I have been using amd since k5 pr 166 most people here don't even know what that is. All im trying to say is amd has never gone away and never will. If you can't get your hands on a p2 1090t than i would get a amd fx 6 or 8 core. PS the 990fx boards suck vrm burn out Had to get a new crosshair 5 since my sabertooth could not handle at stock speeds.

 

[nforce4max]

AMD fx isn't even a phenom II killer, let alone intel.

Even worse an Athlon x4 killer lol. Maybe compete with Phenom 1 but not much else. Maybe a hog of an app that can scale beyond 4 or more cores it does somewhat ok when Intel's hyper threading shows it's weaknesses.

 

[smokeymicpot42]

Amd 8 goes head to head with the 1090t and thats at stock clocks go overclock to overclock thats when the fx chip wakes up.

 

[sarinaide]

Neither, if you must go with AMD then go with the Phenom 2 X 6's (or 4's), the FX are just doggie doodie.

 

[Guest]

Either way, buy quick because they are running out. Newegg has no more 640s or 955s!

 

[manu 11]

discontinue phenom ii's is the worst thing amd has ever done, really, i would say, if you can get 955 from a local store, get it or just get a zosma and be extremely happy

 

[saint7269]

I grabbed the 960T for $109 off of newegg. For that price I can wait for AMD it fix BD or just wait for PD. Thanks for the help all.

 

[saint7269]

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