Looking to upgrade CPU

[MarcusPH]

Hi
I have an FX-6300 currently and am looking for a new processor under £150. I have looked at an i5 4460 and an FX-8350. It will be used for gaming on BF4 and DayZ, also some rendering in 720p for YouTube, any recommendations?

 

[clutchc]

You will, of course, need a new MB for moving to the Intel platform. And a clean install of Windows. If you stay with the AMD platform, the FX-8350 would be the way to go. But are you sure that your gaming issue isn't your card? The FX-6300 should be able to keep up with most gfx cards. Especially if overclocked.

 

[greyfire]

This website makes it very easy to find the parts your looking for at the price you want:

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/cpu/

I used it to build my computer. It lets you customize your search to look for exactly what you want

This is the CPU i bought for my computer

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-fd4350frhkbox

Its under 150

 

[theonerm2]

This website makes it very easy to find the parts your looking for at the price you want:

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/cpu/

I used it to build my computer. It lets you customize your search to look for exactly what you want

This is the CPU i bought for my computer

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-fd4350frhkbox

Its under 150

Why would he downgrade?

 

[Vitric9]

Though the differences in performance between the FX 6300 and FX 8350 you may not notice any gains in real world type tasks. Gaming wise you would get slightly more FPS in BF3 and BF4 as well a few other CPU bound titles, depending on the GPU paired with either SKU. There is a Big power draw once you raise the voltages and clock speed even slightly on the FX 8350. And that would be best used with a hefty motherboard with a 990FX chipset. Also Rendering and encoding times could be reduced maybe 20% to 30% average,. Though the move to an Intel platform would be more costly and it really depends on preference in some areas. I can say for certain that The Single-threaded performance is significantly faster on the Intel side especially Haswell's Desktop processors , like the i5 4460 or i3 4150. If you take a look at the Pentium G3258 reviews that once overclocked over 4.3Ghz that even paired with a high end Graphics card plenty of titles run similar FPS as any other CPU. Tomb Raider is one of the top of my head that is the same as the i7 4790k.
So there is more to it than Cores , Cores and Cores when getting a newer Intel platfrom

 

[greyfire]

Try this website to compare CPUs

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4440-vs-AMD-FX-8320