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what is better for the money the i3 or the fx 6350

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i3 hands down. better per core performance and has a good upgrade path. AM3+ socket is dead.

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For the money, an FX-6300 is a better deal than an i3 because it has more cores than it, counting the fact that the FX's cores are steamroller cores, and because you can achieve similar or the same performance to an i3 with an overclocked Pentium G3285. 

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I will be gaming

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FX 6350

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Since you said you'll be gaming, go for the i3 and then you've got a solid start platform with a good upgrade option to an i5

 

Some games won't run or will struggle on 2 cores. so the 6300 would be better. 

i3 has HT so it's seen as 4 threads, so there's no issues with games that don't run on dual cores

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For the money, an FX-6300 is a better deal than an i3 because it has more cores than it, counting the fact that the FX's cores are steamroller cores, and because you can achieve similar or the same performance to an i3 with an overclocked Pentium G3285. 

The FX-6300 uses Piledriver cores, not Steamroller cores, granted there's not much performance difference between them. Also, simple core count does not indicate better performance in all scenarios. the i3's Haswell cores have a much higher IPC (More powerful individual cores) that it will often beat out the FX-6300 in single-threaded workloads such as gaming, assuming OP here is planning to game on this system.

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I would get a Athlon X4 860K. It has 4 cores, is cheaper than a FX 6350 or i3, and has a much newer technology.

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Some games won't run or will struggle on 2 cores. so the 6300 would be better. 

No, some games won't run or struggle on 2 threads, the i3 will run any game just fine, stop spreading misinformation, in fact it will do better tahn the FX.

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The FX-6300 uses Piledriver cores, not Steamroller cores, granted there's not much performance difference between them. Also, simple core count does not indicate better performance in all scenarios. the i3's Haswell cores have a much higher IPC (More powerful individual cores) that it will often beat out the FX-6300 in single-threaded workloads such as gaming, assuming OP here is planning to game on this system.

Right, but in many benchmarks the fx-6300 does better than the i3 due to games using an increased amount of cores.

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Right, but in many benchmarks the fx-6300 does better than the i3 due to games using an increased amount of cores.

I'm curious to see these benchmarks you are mentioning, mind if you link me to them?

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Thank you.

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Not sure if it's an anomaly but in the video, the 4150 drops to 0.0% sometimes, and the 6300 is consuming less RAM versus the Core i3.

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