is the AMD FX 6300 still good if paired with a gtx 1050ti

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i am looking to build a pc for around £400-£500,
I am thinking of the AMD FX 6300 with a gtx1050ti
and just wanted to know if it would still be a good choice in 2017?
if so do you think it would run player unknown battlegrounds on high at 900p ?
 
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^ agreed 100%.
Still own my 6300, still own my 8320 , also own an i5 & a ryzen 1700.

I'll be sad to ever see my 6300 build go , was always my favourite out of the lot.

Still a good CPU & its around £60 now but as said pointless going with outdated stuff for a new build (970/990 boards now go for in excess of £100!)

iproyouslow - just change the case to what you like.

The r1 is better than the bitfenix though most definitely.
3 included fans & a fan controller .

The nova is fine if that's what you want , you'll have to add a 120mm fan though , it only comes with an exhaust preinstalled

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The FX6300 really wasn't a good cpu when it released half a decade ago and has only gotten worse since then. My brother has one and struggles to play overwatch on high settings with a gtx 970 paired with it. i would look at a ryzen 3 1200 instead. its not much more expensive and is actually modern
 
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if i was to use a intel pentium g4600 or an AMD A10-7850K what would be better
 
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The FX-6300 will not bottleneck a 1050ti. This cpu has 6 threads compared to the 4 that come with the intel pentium, and the FX-6300 still outperforms the pentium in multithreaded workloads. They will make a great pair. If you were to go higher, such as a gtx 1060, you may see the CPU bottleneck in some games, especially newer ones.
 
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no both of those are lower performance than an fx6300 even. as i said look at either an i3 6300 or i3 7300 or a ryzen 3 1200. getting an old architecture just means you will need to upgrade your machine way more often and that costs more in the long run. better to spend an extra $100 to get something decent than build a machine that would have been ok in 2012.
 
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Get a Pentium G4560 or Ryzen 3. Either will perform better than a 6300 for gaming and offer excellent upgrade paths.


You can't just compare two completely different CPUs and say one is better because it has more threads. The Pentium G4560 has much better single threaded performance (a very important metric, especially for gaming), and not all games will make use of all 6 cores of the 6300 anyway. Plus, going with a 6300 involves buying into a dead platform that would have to be completely replaced if you want a CPU upgrade.
 
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i am trying to find the ryzen 3 1200 on the market but i cant find it has it been released yet
?

 
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Put Money togetherfor ryze n or wai t a bit for the new Athlon APUs
 
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Seeing as you said £400-500 I'll assume UK ??

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i was thinking more of a bit nova phoenix case
 
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If you already owned a FX6300 and some DDR3 RAM and an AM3+ motherboard, then pairing it with a GTX 1050 might not be a bad idea. (I still use my FX6300 in my main rig and it is fine for what I do). But it makes no sense to buy any of the "old" components now with the new generation available.
 
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^ agreed 100%.
Still own my 6300, still own my 8320 , also own an i5 & a ryzen 1700.

I'll be sad to ever see my 6300 build go , was always my favourite out of the lot.

Still a good CPU & its around £60 now but as said pointless going with outdated stuff for a new build (970/990 boards now go for in excess of £100!)

iproyouslow - just change the case to what you like.

The r1 is better than the bitfenix though most definitely.
3 included fans & a fan controller .

The nova is fine if that's what you want , you'll have to add a 120mm fan though , it only comes with an exhaust preinstalled

 
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I am sorry, I misread/misunderstood the question. Yes I do understand that some games may not use all 6 threads, I also understand the importance of single core performance and that many games will benefit more from this. Things to consider, the pentium G4560 can not overclock and has no boost, so it runs at 3.5GHz no matter what, where the FX 6300 can boost and overclock, which will make up for the difference in single thread, and it already has the advantage in multithread. So I stand by my statement/comparison.

I also agree that he should not buy an FX 6300. The part I missed was that I assumed he already owned the FX 6300, I just answered the question of whether it would be a good pair with a 1050ti (Which it would, if he already owned one). For a new build, go with the pentium or ryzen 3 at that budget to give yourself a CPU upgrade path for the future.
 
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Boost/overclocking the 6300 may reduce the single threaded deficit a bit, but it would still be be there. Even at 5 GHz (FX 9590), Piledriver is outperformed in single threaded benchmarks by Skylake at 3.7 GHz, sometimes by a significant margin.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1682?vs=1289
 
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You do know that the I3 only has 2 physical cores. Look at the benchmark. Skylake a brand new architecture. Its the same architecture as kabylake ipc wise and the AMD processor ks pretty old and smokes it in the majority of those tests. I think the benchmark you linked makes the AMD prosessor look even more impressive than it would have otherwise. Nobody thats gaming should be buying a 2 core cpu. The I3 is a nasty cpu. Pointless and outdated before they even hit the market. Ryzen is about the best anx only choice for budget gamers atm. Anything less than 4 physical cores and you are screwing yourself over. Itll cost you more money in the long run. Nothing is future proof, but an I3 or less is as pointless of a buy as you can get atm.
 
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You linked a benchmark between a 9590 and a I3 6100. The fx 6300 wasnt part of the part of the benchmark you linked. So im not sure what you're talking about. The fx 6300 and I3 6100 are pointless buys today for gamers. Anything under 4 cores is a bad buy in 2017. There are much better options. Even an I5 is getting to the point where it doesnt make any or very much sense to buy one with the options that we have as consumers today. If you already own one of these CPUs thats fine. Im sure you can get by for a little longer with it, but to buy in now to a dead platform without any upgrade paths or to buy a I3 or even an I5 is a bad idea. It would just cost you more money in the long term. Alot of games are pegging the I5's at 100% in 2017. Ryzen is the best option for buget gamers. Or an I7 for someone who wants something to last them a while. Ryzen just makes more sense. I have a 6700k and if i upgrade itll probably be to a Ryzen refresh unless Intell gets their act together and pricing striaghtened out.
 
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