AMD Fx 4300 and gaming

[LordMustangGT]

So im building a second machine for friends to play on when they come over. Not trying to break the bank on it either. I already pick up a ud7 990fx mobo from gigabyte. Just gonna go with a 8g ramm kit. But how will a 4300 handle games? Im thinking it would be plenty, but would like some people to chime in that might be using one. Plan on a single 970 and sli it later on. Will be play games like bf3 bf4 bfbc2, coh2 and some gta 5 when it comes out.

[Enderman]

The 4300 will bottleneck your 970...

[Lotus]

It's mediocre at single threaded tasks, which many games favor. AMD chips tend to favor good multithreaded applications or multitasking (like streaming while playing, or rendering/editing). If gaming is all you do, you would have been better served with an Intel platform.

[Feronix]

Yeah honestly anything under the FX-6300 is very shit. Would've been better off going FM2+ and getting an Athlon 860k tbh.

[typographie]

So im building a second machine for friends to play on when they come over. Not trying to break the bank on it either. I already pick up a ud7 990fx mobo from gigabyte. Just gonna go with a 8g ramm kit. But how will a 4300 handle games? Im thinking it would be plenty, but would like some people to chime in that might be using one. Plan on a single 970 and sli it later on. Will be play games like bf3 bf4 bfbc2, coh2 and some gta 5 when it comes out.

 

Every game has different CPU demands, but I'm fairly sure BF3, BF4 (multiplayer of course) and CoH 2 will suffer a bit on an FX-4300. We have no idea how GTA V will run, but its probably a smart bet that it will want a fairly powerful CPU.

 

For $340-ish the GTX 970 still looks like a good deal even with a low-end processor, but I wouldn't be thinking much about SLI just yet.

[LordMustangGT]

I was going to get a 6300 and have no problems getting one still, But if I could of saved a few bucks I would of got a quad core to start. Doesn't bf4 use multi cores? like 4 cores right??? 

[LogicalDrm]

I was going to get a 6300 and have no problems getting one still, But if I could of saved a few bucks I would of got a quad core to start. Doesn't bf4 use multi cores? like 4 cores right??? 

 

Yes, BF4 uses all cores and threads you happen to have.

[Feronix]

But honestly the cores on the FX 4000 series are kind of... shit. Not fanboying here but a quad core Intel is much, much quicker than a quad core FX series. If you can make him spend the money on an i5, then certainly do so.

 

If you don't want to spend /that/ much money I guess the 6300 would be alright, but again; try to push for at least a 8320.

[LordMustangGT]

I hear ya, and like I said this is just a second purely gaming machine. I'm picking up a 6300. I'm a total AMD fanboy only. Yes, I know intel can be better in every way..  but AMD runs true threw my blood. It will prly just get a single 770 to start then I'll sli that later on. If I need more cpu power later, I'll just throw a 9590 in it. they should be cheap by then. I'll be OC the 6300 as well so I should be fine for awhile.

[ViruZ_HUN]

The 4300 will bottleneck your 970...

not if he Oc to 8 ghz..

[Humbug]

So im building a second machine for friends to play on when they come over. Not trying to break the bank on it either. I already pick up a ud7 990fx mobo from gigabyte. Just gonna go with a 8g ramm kit. But how will a 4300 handle games? Im thinking it would be plenty, but would like some people to chime in that might be using one. Plan on a single 970 and sli it later on. Will be play games like bf3 bf4 bfbc2, coh2 and some gta 5 when it comes out.

Go for the FX-8350 and it will serve you well for a few years and probably another GPU upgrade as well. Not like it's expensive...

 

Don't buy the FX-4300 to pair with a high end GPU, it doesn't have single threaded performance and it doesn't have multithreaded performance. Graphics APIs are heading in a direction of multithreading. Mantle has started it and DirectX12 and OpenGL next are going to continue to the trend.

[-rascal-]

GA-990FXA-UD7...for a FX-4300? Budget gaming build? Those do no go together in a sentence.

 

The GA-9900FX-UD7 is a premium board...

 

Could've gotten:

• GA-990FX-UD3 / MSi 970 Gaming
• Use extra money save to get FX 6300 / FX-8320
• Get an inexpensive aftermarket CPU cooler (i.e. Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO)
• If extra money is still left over, games, small SSD, or...

[LordMustangGT]

I got the UD7 for 100 bucks second hand.

[LordMustangGT]

I should say I'm looking to spend 1000 bucks at this machine. 240g Kingston ssd, I already have a 320g wd blue for more game space. I do happen to have a evo 212 already aswell off an old build, and 8g kit from adata 1866. looking at throwing it in a corsair 450D. I have a 680w ps already too. this will be a budget ultra game setting machine

[Joshua Ondangan]

I still say the 4300 is fine. you won't lose 1000000FPS nor will you gain 100000FPS going intel but I still say go with a 6300 or whatever the eco version of the 8xxx series is just to match your motherboard

[mrsimplycrazy]

A FX-6300 is only a little bit more to pay for better performance than the 4300, but you'll probably want something around a FX-83XX if you're planning to use a 970.

[lovingGamer]

Hmm, i would say go for FX-6300..

In my country its pretty cheap CPU! only 75$

[Techicolors]

I have an FX-4300 paired with a 650 Ti and 8 GB RAM and sadly the processor isn't very good at games. Frames drop a lot even though GPU usage is low, so the only culprit is the CPU. I tried overclocking but it still doesn't keep up. I really doubt the 4300 will hold up with the newer games. If you're thinking of pairing it with a 970, forget about it. An 8350 is a better choice. Or Intel i5.