What would be better? Less cores at higher speeds or more at a lower speed?

[diamondarrow67]

I am pretty much stuck on the FX 6300 for the time being and clearly bottle necked by my gtx 1060. I have been able to achieve a steady 4.6 GHZ overclock by disabling "cores" 5-6. I have also been able to get a steady OC of 4.2GHZ on all cores. Which is better for stuff like gaming? Obviously it depends on the game but a general best case scenario would be what?

[Skiiwee29]

For gaming, in general its speed over cores, but with a chip as old and poor as the FX6300, it wont help much in the long run either way. 

[Intelfreak]

Modern games you are better of with more cores in most cases. Clock speed still counts as well, but games are being more threaded these days.

 

Older games in the other hand, you are better of with fewer cores and higher clock as older games are not so thread depending and more clock depended. 

[Windows7ge]

Games generally perform better with fewer faster cores. 4 cores is still pretty much the sweet spot for gaming with some high end titles really starting to utilize more.

[diamondarrow67]

1 minute ago, Skiiwee29 said:

For gaming, in general its speed over cores, but with a chip as old and poor as the FX6300, it wont help much in the long run either way. 

So disable "cores" 5-6 and go back to my 4.6ghz then?

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, diamondarrow67 said:

So disable "cores" 5-6 and go back to my 4.6ghz then?

It won't really matter too much with the fx. There will be games that love the extra cores and there will be those that like the higher speeds.

[Skiiwee29]

5 minutes ago, diamondarrow67 said:

So disable "cores" 5-6 and go back to my 4.6ghz then?

no... you wont really gain any benefit. The best benefit is to ditch that old platform thats horrible in modern standards and games. Nothing will fix your issues beyond that. 

[diamondarrow67]

Just now, Skiiwee29 said:

no... you wont really gain any benefit. The best benefit is to ditch that old platform thats horrible in modern standards and games. Nothing will fix your issues beyond that. 

I am pretty much stuck with it, believe me once I scrape the money together I am ditching this platform. I just worked out a deal with my friend that he is giving me an i7 6700k and mobo. had to call in a few favors. just need to score some ram

[Epimetheus]

7 minutes ago, diamondarrow67 said:

I am pretty much stuck with it, believe me once I scrape the money together I am ditching this platform. I just worked out a deal with my friend that he is giving me an i7 6700k and mobo. had to call in a few favors. just need to score some ram

For how much the 6700k and the mobo?

[Nocte]

31 minutes ago, diamondarrow67 said:

I am pretty much stuck with it, believe me once I scrape the money together I am ditching this platform. I just worked out a deal with my friend that he is giving me an i7 6700k and mobo. had to call in a few favors. just need to score some ram

Better be no more than $150 for the whole thing.