fx 6300 or i3 4130? really confused!

[gilkevinaxl]

hi, ihave a budget of $500 for buying a new rig this april , but im really confused to pick cpu for my gaming rig , my 2 choices for a $120 dollar cpu was a amd fx 6300 or an i3 4130.

what do you think should i buy because a lot people says the 6300 would be better but other doesn't , 

plss help !.. thanks 

btw i will pair it with a r7 260x , and im not planning on upgrading in the future . i just want to buy whats the best for gaming .

 

[Izaya Orihara]

6300 is better. 

[DeViLzzz]

AMD FX 6300

[JAKEBAB]

ever thought of going with a 760k? newer platform decent performance and probs cheaper.

[acidydragon]

I agree with @JAKEBAB , look into the 760k

[mikeangeles 75]

I approve of the FX-6300. Solid CPU all around for gaming and even video-editing.

 

If you can find what ^ said, a 760K would also be a viable option.

[CoolBeans]

Get a 760k so you can afford a better GPU

[Akolyte]

FX 6300, 

[LukaP]

yeah get a 760k and put the money saved into a better gpu. a 270 or a 280 when it comes out will be beasts

[gilkevinaxl]

thanks guys , but the athlon x4 series was so hard to find here in my country , so i have to go with the fx or i3 ,ok then i have to go with the fx 6300 , but it is ok if i use the stock cooler for a few months? because i dont have any funds for that by this time

[GeekySole9354]

thanks guys , but the athlon x4 series was so hard to find here in my country , so i have to go with the fx or i3 ,ok then i have to go with the fx 6300 , but it is ok if i use the stock cooler for a few months? because i dont have any funds for that by this time

 

Yeah as long you dont care about sound (because the AMD stock cooler is kinda loud), or overclocking, because you should never overclock with a stock cooler.

[Opcode]

i3-4130 stomps every FX processor in gaming including the FX-8350 (not all the time but in most cases). This is a no brainier, regardless to as much as people think core count matters (4 fast threads > 8 slow threads). Plus LGA 1150 will be used for Broadwell so you can upgrade in the future to a 14nm processor.

 

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[harrynowl]

Go Athlon 760K and get a better GPU like a 270 or 7870:D

[Faa]

There are only a few games that can take advantage of more than 2 cores so a 6300/8350 is anytime a waste. An i3 has a better price/performance ratio than the whole FX line.

[Jumper118]

athlon 760k get a better motherboard gigabyte g1 sinper or msi a88xm gaming and cooler (something like a 212 evo, but not a 212 evo because they are boring  ) and a r9 270. that way you can keep up with the fx6300 cpu wise and have a better gpu! 

[SkilledRebuilds]

There are only a few games that can take advantage of more than 2 cores so a 6300/8350 is anytime a waste. An i3 has a better price/performance ratio than the whole FX line.

That was once true... Not so much anymore.

Extra CPU power may not provide higher average or maximum fps rises, but the most critical minimum fps will rise, and that's the important thing.

 

Also there will be more and more multithreading as time progress's. Especially from Nowadays onward.

Due to game engines progressing faster and faster in the last few years I would say a triplecore would be my minimum for any gaming machine, I would not touch any dualcores (with or without HT)

[Faa]

That was once true... Not so much anymore.

Extra CPU power may not provide higher average or maximum fps rises, but the most critical minimum fps will rise, and that's the important thing.

 

Also there will be more and more multithreading as time progress's. Especially from Nowadays onward.

Due to game engines progressing faster and faster in the last few years I would say a triplecore would be my minimum for any gaming machine, I would not touch any dualcores (with or without HT)

Whats your point? An i3 will still be better before an 8350 will be outdated (which already is atm)

[Common_Courtesy]

i3-4130 stomps every FX processor in gaming including the FX-8350 (not all the time but in most cases). This is a no brainier, regardless to as much as people think core count matters (4 fast threads > 8 slow threads). Plus LGA 1150 will be used for Broadwell so you can upgrade in the future to a 14nm processor.

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Every game released in the last year or two has been relatively well multithreaded giving the FX 6300 a solid advantage over the i3 and with most new launches adopting a design that plays well with multiple cores due to the next gen consoles, going with a dual core processor just seems a bit silly. Yes In older games that can only use 2 cores or threads the i3 will out perform the Fx 6300 at stock speeds, but then the FX 6300 can be overclocked to have good single threaded performance as well, another advantage that the i3 lacks.

Whats your point? An i3 will still be better before an 8350 will be outdated (which already is atm)

Read my earlier post because the same goes for this as well.

Just to back myself up here are some benchmarks.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1362591/gamegpu-crysis-3-final-gpu-cpu-scaling

http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page6.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/655-bioshock-infinite-performance/page5.html

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2305791

http://www.techspot.com/review/615-far-cry-3-performance/page6.html

As you can see the FX 6300 is either outperforming the i3 or on par with it, and this is before we take into account that the fx 6300 can be overclocked.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Whats your point? An i3 will still be better before an 8350 will be outdated (which already is atm)

You ask me whats my point when my post is the point that I'm making.

 

Plus the 8350 has the power for other usage scenarios where the i3 will be behind it in multithreaded applications like video editing his gameplays.. 8350 outdated or not is a stronger CPU when its used to its maximum capabilities. Especially with overclocking.

 

On a budget its a little different, but he can get a cheaper AMD CPU than the 8350 and drop in a more powerful one later. Still being less expensive than doing the same thing with Intel.

[Faa]

As you can see the FX 6300 is either outperforming the i3 or on par with it, and this is before we take into account that the fx 6300 can be overclocked.

Link even 10 more games, the i3 is still the better choice here for gaming. You're nothing with multithreading performance, gaming is all about IPC and nothing more. As I said before there aren't enough multithreaded games, if they are then theyre gpu bound which doesnt matter which cpu you use or its a singleplayer game.

8350's@5GHz will give you around 13 fps in most mmo/rts games so no theyre many times not even on the borderline.

Maybe you should take a Haswell chip out -> http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i3-4340-4330-4130_5.html#sect0 & http://www.hardcoreware.net/intel-core-i3-4340-review/3/

 

 

 

You ask me whats my point when my post is the point that I'm making.

 

Plus the 8350 has the power for other usage scenarios where the i3 will be behind it in multithreaded applications like video editing his gameplays.. 8350 outdated or not is a stronger CPU when its used to its maximum capabilities. Especially with overclocking.

 

On a budget its a little different, but he can get a cheaper AMD CPU than the 8350 and drop in a more powerful one later. Still being less expensive than doing the same thing with Intel.

An i3 with Intel Quicksync for rendering/encoding is faster than a 8350. If you get a 8350 these days you must be ignorant really. No point getting a 8350 over an i5.

[SkilledRebuilds]

 

An i3 with Intel Quicksync for rendering/encoding is faster than a 8350. If you get a 8350 these days you must be ignorant really. No point getting a 8350 over an i5.

 

Intel quicksync is a shit quality encoder. I have used it many times in different programs and compared to using a CPU alone its quite craptastic quality.

To be fair, most GPU assist video encoding sucks compared to the CPU, even at the same settings on most programs.

 

I wouldnt get a 8350 over an i5, I don't think anyone should, I love the Intel i series, I also love AMD being the underdog and use both companies CPU's for their strengths, but I would choose an 8350 over an i3.

Because I do more than just sit there playing games on my PC.

[Faa]

Intel quicksync is a shit quality encoder. I have used it many times in different programs and compared to using a CPU alone its quite craptastic quality.

To be fair, most GPU assist video encoding sucks compared to the CPU, even at the same settings on most programs.

That's not true. Hardware doesnt decide the image quality. I can go upto 300Mbps with Cuda/quicksync and the cpu in adobe premiere pro.

 

 

I wouldnt get a 8350 over an i5, I don't think anyone should, I love the Intel i series, I also love AMD being the underdog and use both companies CPU's for their strengths, but I would choose an 8350 over an i3.

Because I do more than just sit there playing games on my PC.

Have fun waiting 15 years to have multithreaded games as standard.

[SkilledRebuilds]

That's not true. Hardware doesnt decide the image quality. I can go upto 300Mbps with Cuda/quicksync and the cpu in adobe premiere pro.

 

Not everyone is using that one singular program. Not all programs let you use 300Mbps. Let alone 50mbps.

 

Have fun waiting 15 years to have multithreaded games as standard.

If you think its going to be 15 years, your deluded sorry to say, their not running on a single thread now... let alone down the track being better again than todays standards.

[Faa]

Not everyone is using that one singular program. Not all programs let you use 300Mbps. Let alone 50mbps.

50Mbps 100GB of recorded shadowplay captures will take like a day on a 8350 while Quicksync woud do it in an hour or two. I don't think many people here have the patience to wait that long so you're still having better quality with Quicksync thanks to its faster processing time allowing you to use higher bitrates.

 

 

If you think its going to be 15 years, your deluded sorry to say, their not running on a single thread now... let alone down the track being better again than todays standards.

There aren't single threaded games. Stuff like notepad/win calc/superpi are single threaded. Every game you have lets say starting from 2000 can use more than 20 cores anyways.

[Priller]

hi, ihave a budget of $500 for buying a new rig this april , but im really confused to pick cpu for my gaming rig , my 2 choices for a $120 dollar cpu was a amd fx 6300 or an i3 4130.

what do you think should i buy because a lot people says the 6300 would be better but other doesn't , 

plss help !.. thanks 

btw i will pair it with a r7 260x , and im not planning on upgrading in the future . i just want to buy whats the best for gaming .

 

8320 at microcenter for 129.99 if your stateside.

 

i3-4130 stomps every FX processor in gaming including the FX-8350 (not all the time but in most cases). This is a no brainier, regardless to as much as people think core count matters (4 fast threads > 8 slow threads). Plus LGA 1150 will be used for Broadwell so you can upgrade in the future to a 14nm processor.

 

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You do know the differences between the 4130 and the 8350 right? I would guess not because you have everything wrong.

 

4130 is Zambezi based which has a lower IPC then Vishera by 5-15%.

 

Also more games are becoming better mutlithreaded.

 

One last thing. The 4130 has a clock speed of 3.8Ghz while the 8350 is 4.0Ghz. So even if they were identical, they are not, the 8350 would still be faster then the 4130 using 4 cores due to shear clock speed.

 

Please top posting wrong and false information when you have either no experience with it or simply dont know.