Is it worth upgrading from an fx 4300 to 8300

[klooger28]

My friend has been having issues with alot of things in his pc, which im fairly sure seems to come down to his cpu, he plans on upgrading to a whole new intel one in the near future, but while he saves up thinks it might be worth spending $100 on an 8300 to at least get things working.
His gpu is an overclocked 7850, and 8gb of ram, he cant run fortnite at all (which is the main game he wants to play) gets 80fps in league on minimum settings, and about 60 in rocket league.
He also plans on using this current pc as his streaming pc after he upgrades, so the new cpu might be worth it there too?

Edit:
Since the general consensus seems to be this isn't a very good idea, is there any compatible cpus that might be worth it, or does he just have to deal with it until he can afford the good pc (its more of a time and less of a money issue.)
Also this may not have been explained well enough initially, but the main issue is trying to record/stream while gaming, which is where i assume upgrading from 4 to 8 cores should actually help?

 

[okcnaline]

No.

 

[Corwin65]

It would be a complete waste of money.

 

[klooger28]

It would be a complete waste of money.

So, to him its just 1-2 days of work for this, would it literally be no improvement? I know this gen of amd cpus were terrible, but its just something to tide him over until he can save up enough for a decent prebuilt.

 

[Dugimodo]

Look up the system requirements for fortnite and see what it says (I can't access game related sites form here or I'd do it myself)

Basically though only those few games that use more than 4 cores effectively would get ANY benefit from an 8300 and the rest would run no better, the quad core performance is near enough the same. Seems a waste of $100 to me too.

 

[Corwin65]

Add what would be spent towards the new build.

 

[Supernova1138]

It depends on what you're doing with the computer. The 8300 only offers a higher core count while retaining the same bad per core performance, so if this system is mainly for gaming, then the performance gains would be minimal outside of a few really new titles as few games scale well across more than 4 cores. If this computer is going to be used for video editing, then the extra cores will speed up rendering times and the jump might be somewhat worthwhile assuming you don't pay too much for the FX 8300.

 

[klooger28]

It depends on what you're doing with the computer. The 8300 only offers a higher core count while retaining the same bad per core performance, so if this system is mainly for gaming, then the performance gains would be minimal outside of a few really new titles as few games scale well across more than 4 cores. If this computer is going to be used for video editing, then the extra cores will speed up rendering times and the jump might be somewhat worthwhile assuming you don't pay too much for the FX 8300.

Its $100 which seemed ok to me, he does make a few videos, and plans on streaming alot, using this pc to handle that while he games on the new one once he gets it. It's just that the fps he gets in games seems shockingly bad compared to other 7850 systems, and im fairly sure its a cpu issue, the only problem is you cant really get a better one without upgrading mobo, and thats not worth it unless you go new enough that ddr4 is required, and thats just not worth it.

This is mostly to tide him over while he saves up for the actually good pc for a couple months.

 

[klooger28]

Look up the system requirements for fortnite and see what it says (I can't access game related sites form here or I'd do it myself)

Basically though only those few games that use more than 4 cores effectively would get ANY benefit from an 8300 and the rest would run no better, the quad core performance is near enough the same. Seems a waste of $100 to me too.

Recommended System Requirements:
Nvidia GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870 equivalent DX11 GPU.
2 GB VRAM.
Core i5 2.8 Ghz.
8 GB RAM.
Windows 7/8/10 64-bit.

Thing is i saw some videos on youtube of people running it at 1080p medium settings or around there with 7850, and similarly old cpus, and he cant even get it to play at 480p, like 20fps or less i think.

 

[okcnaline]

The FX4300 performs worse than even a Sandy Bridge i5 which is probably 2 years older than the required i5.

 

[kgt1182]

The FX generation of AMD Piledriver CPUs are really old, and have low single thread performance. As much as I would like to recommend a new build or simply say "No. Not worth." I would give a more evaluative response.

I would recommend you to save the money
1) That game probably uses 4 cores or less, upgrading to a CPU with more cores have little impact on FPS.
2) Assuming a 2.8 GHz 4th Gen i5, I say overclocking your FX 4300 to that spec is within reach.

I recommend overclocking the FX CPU to at least 4.5 GHz.

 

[klooger28]

The FX generation of AMD Piledriver CPUs are really old, and have low single thread performance. As much as I would like to recommend a new build or simply say "No. Not worth." I would give a more evaluative response.

I would recommend you to save the money
1) That game probably uses 4 cores or less, upgrading to a CPU with more cores have little impact on FPS.
2) Assuming a 2.8 GHz 4th Gen i5, I say overclocking your FX 4300 to that spec is within reach.

I recommend overclocking the FX CPU to at least 4.5 GHz.

He ended up not going with it and is going to save up, the main issue which i don't think i specified enough was that he wants to record/stream things, which the 8 threads would certainly help with. The problem is his motherboard is so garbage that overclocking his current cpu is prettymuch out of the question, and even upgrading probably wont work. He just needs to scrap the whole thing and start again tbh.