Upgrade from AMD FX 6300

[Zoltansbeard]

Hey there =)

After swapping my GTX 660 to a GTX 780 my AMD FX 6300 has become a pretty heavy bottleneck. In nearly every Game the CPU is at 100% while the GTX 780 is bored to death.

My Budget is 150€ for CPU and Motherboard(i'll propably go intel)

So far i have found the following CPUs:

I5 2500
I5 3450
I5 3470
I5 3550
I5 3570
I7 2600
Xeon E3 1220 v1,2,3
Xeon E3 1225 v1
Xeon E3 1230 v1 and 2
Xeon E3 1245 v1

Am i missing a good CPU in my Price Range?

The I5 2500 is the cheapest option but i have found conflicting Benchmarks and overall Info. Some state its a huge upgrade to my FX.. some say its hardly noticable.

Any Tips?

Thanks!

 

[Ecky]

I wouldn't buy a CPU that's older than Haswell right now, personally. Of the CPUs you've listed, the only one that's 4th generation or newer is the 1220v3.

Performance per clock of Haswell is ~60% higher than AMD's FX architecture, and the FX-6300 has a pretty hefty module penalty when loading all of its cores, so a Haswell i5 would be a significant upgrade in every metric.

 

[geofelt]

I wish you could stretch your budget for a bundle like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skylake-3-7Ghz-Motherboard-2133Mhz-Crucial/dp/B01ALSKH76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472853015&sr=8-1&keywords=i3-6100+bundle

Here is a i3-6100 review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10543/the-skylake-core-i3-51w-cpu-review-i3-6320-6300-6100-tested

If you are buying used, list your candidates and prices.

 

[st3v30]

Well Xeon E3 1245 v1 or i7 2600 will offer you most performance gain from all of them after that i5 3570.
Save up money and wait for GOD Zen to come out

 

[Zoltansbeard]

I wish you could stretch your budget for a bundle like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skylake-3-7Ghz-Motherboard-2133Mhz-Crucial/dp/B01ALSKH76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472853015&sr=8-1&keywords=i3-6100+bundle

Here is a i3-6100 review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10543/the-skylake-core-i3-51w-cpu-review-i3-6320-6300-6100-tested

If you are buying used, list your candidates and prices.

Would a I3 really be a good Move? I mean sure then i had a Skylake Platform to Upgrade further From but i heard I3 and FX 6300 are propably a Sideways Move

 

[Zoltansbeard]

Well Xeon E3 1245 v1 or i7 2600 will offer you most performance gain from all of them after that i5 3570.
Save up money and wait for GOD Zen to come out

Seriously is Zen expected to be that great? and when it is expected to be released?

 

[Ecky]

A Skylake i3 is somewhere between an FX-6300 and FX-8320 in multithreading, and close to twice as fast as either in single-threaded performance.

One early game benchmark showed Zen to be somewhere around Sandy Bridge IPC. In another, AMD did a public demonstration showing it to be ~Broadwell IPC in a test they set up and did not release details on, and I assume that's close to a best-case scenario. AMD's demonstration had Broadwell downclocked to 3GHz, rather than clocking Zen up to Broadwell's clockspeed. Speculation is that Zen doesn't clock very well, though it could be the fault of early silicon. Expect it out in early 2017, after Kaby Lake launches - with 10-25% better IPC and 50% higher clockspeed.

My opinion: Zen's strength is probably going to be in that you can get a lot of cores with a relatively low TDP, which does not make for a good gaming chip. It might be a lower-priced alternative to Intel's HEDT platform for rendering and scientific computation.

 

[Zoltansbeard]

I got an I5 3550 for 78€
Now on to the Motherboard. Any suggestions? Would a new Asrock H61 VG4 be ok?

 

[Ecky]

Should be fine. How much is it? Often these older CPUs are not worth it because their motherboards tend to be a lot more expensive than those for new CPUs.

 

[Zoltansbeard]

Should be fine. How much is it? Often these older CPUs are not worth it because their motherboards tend to be a lot more expensive than those for new CPUs.

49.99€ New from Amazon