What To Take?

[IMPERIUS]

Hi!

 

I'm on a budget, building a gaming pc.

So I'm deciding between taking a intel pentium g3258+ sapphire radeon r9 280

OR

amd fx-6300+ sapphire radeon r9 270x

 

I won't be changing the parts for minimal 4 years and I mostly play fps games.

 

Thank you

[LemonSpice]

Hi!

 

I'm on a budget, building a gaming pc.

So I'm deciding between taking a intel pentium g3258+ sapphire radeon r9 280

OR

amd fx-6300+ sapphire radeon r9 270x

 

I won't be changing the parts for minimal 4 years and I mostly play fps games.

 

Thank you

the first as more fps and a upgrade path

[ShadowCaptain]

Hi!

 

I would say the top one, better GPU will give better performance now and you can slap in an i5 or i7 later when you can afford to

 

Can you provide your budget, location and the rest of the pc?

 

Its possible there are alternative options but without knowing your budget, or what is in the rest of the PC its impossible to say

[CartertheCOCguy]

first, u can upgrade to an i5

[nanowatt]

First one because the g3258 have better performance per core but i am not sure if is going to last 4 years at the speed things evolve now

[Geekazoid]

I'm wondering if this should go in the 'New Builds & Planning' section. Just a thought.

[IMPERIUS]

I would say the top one, better GPU will give better performance now and you can slap in an i5 or i7 later when you can afford to

 

Can you provide your budget, location and the rest of the pc?

 

Its possible there are alternative options but without knowing your budget, or what is in the rest of the PC its impossible to say

 

My budget was 700EUR, I live in Slovenia (if anyone knows where that is). 

My other parts are: 

 

MOBO (for the Pentium): http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gah81mh

RAM: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-memory-bls2kit4g3d1609ds1s00

HDD: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st1000dm003

PSU: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-power-supply-cx500

Case: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/zalman-case-z3pluswhite

 

First one because the g3258 have better performance per core but i am not sure if is going to last 4 years at the speed things evolve now

 

Yes thats my concern since most of todays games support 6 cores (where an oc'd fx-6300 would be good at) and the Pentium only has 2 cores and 2 threads

[nanowatt]

 

 

Yes thats my concern since most of todays games support 6 cores (where an oc'd fx-6300 would be good at) and the Pentium only has 2 cores and 2 threads

Wrong.There are still games that don't have dual core support and even if you had a six core it wouldn't make much of a difference since just a few games use more that 4

[IMPERIUS]

Wrong.There are still games that don't have dual core support and even if you had a six core it wouldn't make much of a difference since just a few games use more that 4

 

Yes but the games I play (e.g. bf3/4) support six cores. Even bf3 did

[nanowatt]

Yes but the games I play (e.g. bf3/4) support six cores. Even bf3 did

As i said is not going to make much of a difference.There's not actual need to upgrade from 4 to 6 unless you have the money and you use he pc for more than gaming.Even so best multithreading cpu's are from intel.Not saying that the fx would be a waste of money but the am3+ socket is not the best

[s3ns3]

get the pentium. it does perform better than the fx 6300 for gaming once OC`ed and later you just slap an i5