Will an AMD FX-8300 work/be an upgrade for my PC?

[Johnbonne]

Hello all! I'm currently looking to upgrade PC after finally plucking up the courage to add another component, but I'm not sure if my mobo/PSU is up to the job, or even if the CPU I have in mind is that good an upgrade. Here's my specs:

ASUS Strix GTX 960 (2GB) GPU
AMD FX-4300 CPU
8GB RAM
Corsair 650W PSU
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

I've looked around and found that the 8300 might be the best CPU I can have for the motherboard, but will I get that large a performance boost in video games? I've heard my FX-4300 is bottlenecking my 960, but I'm not sure if an extra 4 cores and all that good stuff is going to benefit me at all.

If you guys can recommend a better CPU (I'm more about performance and texture quality, than higher resolutions), and if you can recommend coolers with the thermal paste already stuck on, that'd be just dandy!

 

[jaslion]

Hello all! I'm currently looking to upgrade PC after finally plucking up the courage to add another component, but I'm not sure if my mobo/PSU is up to the job, or even if the CPU I have in mind is that good an upgrade. Here's my specs:

ASUS Strix GTX 960 (2GB) GPU
AMD FX-4300 CPU
8GB RAM
Corsair 650W PSU
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

I've looked around and found that the 8300 might be the best CPU I can have for the motherboard, but will I get that large a performance boost in video games? I've heard my FX-4300 is bottlenecking my 960, but I'm not sure if an extra 4 cores and all that good stuff is going to benefit me at all.

If you guys can recommend a better CPU (I'm more about performance and texture quality, than higher resolutions), and if you can recommend coolers with the thermal paste already stuck on, that'd be just dandy!

Not really worth the money. Also that cpu can cause issues since you have such a low end board.
My recommendation save the money and save up until you can get into a new platform.

 

[Johnbonne]

Hello all! I'm currently looking to upgrade PC after finally plucking up the courage to add another component, but I'm not sure if my mobo/PSU is up to the job, or even if the CPU I have in mind is that good an upgrade. Here's my specs:

ASUS Strix GTX 960 (2GB) GPU
AMD FX-4300 CPU
8GB RAM
Corsair 650W PSU
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

I've looked around and found that the 8300 might be the best CPU I can have for the motherboard, but will I get that large a performance boost in video games? I've heard my FX-4300 is bottlenecking my 960, but I'm not sure if an extra 4 cores and all that good stuff is going to benefit me at all.

If you guys can recommend a better CPU (I'm more about performance and texture quality, than higher resolutions), and if you can recommend coolers with the thermal paste already stuck on, that'd be just dandy!

Not really worth the money. Also that cpu can cause issues since you have such a low end board.
My recommendation save the money and save up until you can get into a new platform.

No worries! I'm looking into new PCs anyway just in case, but I thought it was worth asking before committing to anything! ^^

 

[richardvday]

Well it should work fine, your psu is big enough to handle it and the board should be fine also.
I quote "4+1 Phase CPU Power design for AMD high TDP 125W CPU support" so good to go there.
Right now you have two physical and two logical cores(AMD calls them 4 cores).
Upgrading to that CPU would double that but the clock-speeds are the same or close enough to make little practical difference.
Most games do not use more than 2 cores or 4 at the most. Your current CPU already provides this.

So unless you want to do more multi-tasking or video encoding or something similar(Coding perhaps) I do not recommend it.
Jaslion offered the correct advice, save up and buy An upgraded system.
Intel or AMD either one requires DDR4 now so its a bit painful.
Try to get 16gb of ram when you do it.
Good luck

 

[jaslion]

Well it should work fine, your psu is big enough to handle it and the board should be fine also.
I quote "4+1 Phase CPU Power design for AMD high TDP 125W CPU support" so good to go there.
Right now you have two physical and two logical cores(AMD calls them 4 cores).
Upgrading to that CPU would double that but the clock-speeds are the same or close enough to make little practical difference.
Most games do not use more than 2 cores or 4 at the most. Your current CPU already provides this.

So unless you want to do more multi-tasking or video encoding or something similar(Coding perhaps) I do not recommend it.
Jaslion offered the correct advice, save up and buy An upgraded system.
Intel or AMD either one requires DDR4 now so its a bit painful.
Try to get 16gb of ram when you do it.
Good luck

The problem is that he has a problematic board. That board can handle the 6000 series fine but will have trouble with the 8000 series (even the lower power ones). The reason for this being the low end vrms. A lot of cheap boards "support" the 8000 series cpu's but can't sustain the load for long. His gigabyte board is one that cannot sustain the load and will cause an unstable system and eventually system failiures.

 

[richardvday]

The problem is that he has a problematic board. That board can handle the 6000 series fine but will have trouble with the 8000 series (even the lower power ones). The reason for this being the low end vrms. A lot of cheap boards "support" the 8000 series cpu's but can't sustain the load for long. His gigabyte board is one that cannot sustain the load and will cause an unstable system and eventually system failiures.

If you actually finished reading it you will find that I said

"So unless you want to do more multi-tasking or video encoding or something similar(Coding perhaps) I do not recommend it.
Jaslion offered the correct advice, save up and buy An upgraded system."

I said save up and buy a new system.
I agreed with you no arguments there.