Cpu upgrade

[Unusualbreed]

I was curious if there would be any benefit to upgrading from my amd fx 6300 to an 8350 or higher. I have an asus m5a97 r2.0 mobo and an nvidia evga gtx geforce 760 w dual ACX cooling. 8 gb Kingston hyperx fury red 1866 MHz ram. Thanks in advance. I typically game in several different types from Minecraft to bf4 and the like.

[Fate]

BF4 you'll probably see some performance increase, most other games you won't though.

It's not really worth the money imo

[WinNut]

Somewhat, but not that much. I think you should go for Intel if you can afford it.

[KamiKatze]

That upgrade is not worth it, at least for gaming, especially for shooters, which are more GPU dependend than CPU.

 

What's your CPU cooler? You can overclock your FX 6300 and get some mroe performance that way.

[niofalpha]

Not for most GAMES...

 

The most performance gain in CPU's would probably be to a 4690K or something.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Moving to an i5-4440 and a cheap H series motherboard would yield much more benefit...but your parts are balanced as is, i'm sure the FX is feeding the GTX760 all it can handle in most games...upgrading the GPU to something stronger would expose the FX weaknesses in form of a cpu bottleneck, moving to a stronger CPU won't really give you that much of a gain due to the GPU limitations...all in all i think you should stick to what you have for a while and perhaps learn overclocking if your motherboard is up to the task and you have good CPU cooling.

 

You have a good mid-range gaming machine and it will remain mid-range unless you can buy both a core i5 haswell processor and an high-end GPU in the form of a GTX 970 or radeon R9 290X for example.

[sgloux3470]

I think if you can sell your 6300 for a decent price it might be worth it for a cheap 8350.  Wouldn't be a terrible upgrade for $50-80.

 

Might be better off putting that money towards an h80 or something and overclocking the 6300.