What CPU do I buy?

[george_with_a_J]

Ok, so im planning on building my first pc in the near future. Problem is i cannot decide what cpu to buy. Im stuck between 3, the intel i3 4150, or the AMD FX 6300 or 6350. My pc will be used for mostly gaming, but might also be used for school work. Halp!

 

[TheTechDude]

AMD FX6300 is the best out of those three.

Reasoning:

1: Better than i3 becaues: More Core (4 VS 6)
2: Higher Clock Speed
3: My brother owns one and it performs fantastically.

Good Luck!

 

[CTurbo]

The i3 is best out of those 3

Reasoning:

1: WAY better single core performance
2: Much better upgrade path
3: I3 can be used with a $30 motherboard for 100% performance
4: The FX6300/6350 is only better when all 6 cores can be utilized which is rare(like 10-15% of the time)

 

[SnakeGTX]

Stuff you need to realize about AMD.

1: AMD mobos only support PCI-e 2.0. This means, in the future of gaming, when games start taking advantage of PCI-e 3.0, your mobo will start bottlenecking the card. This means, that your card won't be able to use all of its resources, and therefor, decrease performance. In the Intel builds, their mobos PCI-e 3.0 support will help them to use their GPU to its full potential.

2: Your not getting a six-core CPU, your getting a three real cores. Each of those real cores (that contains two AMD cores) only account for 1.54 cores, where two real cores would account for 1.9-2.0 cores (Intel's Hyper-threading is equal to 1.23 cores.)

Source 1
Source 2 (scroll down to the list of FX CPUs, and look at their core number. Should be something like 3 (6).)
Source 3 (Most important to understand)

3: The 6300 uses a lot more watts. So, eventually that energy bill will catch up to the extra money for the Intel CPU.

4: AMDs FX series, is old, and dead. Down the road, you have room to upgrade with Intel. With AMD, about your best CPU is going to be a eight "core" CPU, that is about equal to a i5 (here). Where, with Intel, you could upgrade to an i7.

I would go for the i3. The i3 could even be fine in gaming. But that depends on your GPU and monitor resolution. The i3 would probably start bottlenecking anything above a 750 ti or r7-265 at 900p.

 

[rockie_]

n. a. now

 

[iamasleepy2014]

I would suggest not to buy any 2 cores CPU regardless of intel or AMD for gaming.

Lots of newer games starting to use 3 or more cores
I had a i3-4130@3.4Ghz (2 cores/4threads) before, when I play call of duty: Ghost, the frame rate is horrible and lagging even i am using a AMD 7970 card
I search for a solution online and found out that call of duty ghost actually best with 3 cores
Since then I have upgrade to a 4 cores i7-4790, now the game run so smooth. and I didnt even need to upgrade my graphic card.

Hope this helps

 

[george_with_a_J]

How bad would the i3 bottle neck? Planning on getting a r9 270x.

 

[Setiawan]

so.. the conclusions is : INTEL CPU !!

 

[iamasleepy2014]

i3 is OK for older games, but bad for newer and future games (especially those that require 3 or more cores)
4 cores CPU is the optimal nowaday.
I would prefer u get i5, but if budget constrain, you may need to pick AMD
I have 4 gaming PCs, AMD FX-8350 and intel i3/i5/i7, so I know the different in performance between them

 

[SnakeGTX]

How bad would the i3 bottle neck? Planning on getting a r9 270x.

At 720p or 900p, it shouldn't bottleneck, maybe a little bit (5 fps?). 1080p is probably where the bottlenecking is going to happen. On this res, you would get a noticeable difference than other benchmarks with a 270x.

FX-6300 vs i3-4130 (<4150)

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