FX upgrade?

[LegendaryJC]

So at the moment I have my FX 4300 OC 4.2GHZ with a XFX 7870 2GB card. Would it be worth it to upgrade to a 6300 or 8350 or just start saving up for a Intel build? I plan to start the new build at the end of this year. Playing Tomb Raider right now which looks great around 42 fps Max settings.

[JoshM]

What motherboard do you have? Thats really the deciding factor

[thekeemo]

A 8350 would be noticibly better ~4690 in threaded games ~potato in non threaded games

[kpreg]

IMO you should save for intel. There's power supply concerns, motherboard quality issues, proper cooling, ect. that all have to be taken into account when upgrading fx processors.

[dadasmithywinkle]

Intel will be best for the future. Wait for the new chips to debut.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Save for an i5 and a stronger GPU.

Your parts are balanced as of now, upgrading one or the other will not give a good performance boost...you need to upgrade both if you want noticeably better performance across the board.

[Ahaber]

IMO you should save for intel. There's power supply concerns, motherboard quality issues, proper cooling, ect. that all have to be taken into account when upgrading fx processors.

 

or any processor of component. 

[Suika]

A 4.2GHz FX-4300 would perform similarly to the FX-8350 in single threaded games. Multithreaded games would see a small benefit, but Intel would be the best bet.

[LegendaryJC]

What motherboard do you have? Thats really the deciding factor

Asus M5 A99FX pro R2.0

[i_build_nanosuits]

Asus M5 A99FX pro R2.0

FX-6300 and R9 280/280X would be a noticeable upgrade that would help you out for a little while...but i'd save for an i5 and higher-end GPU personaly.

[LegendaryJC]

Think Intel it is. It's sad AMD does not do CPUs anymore. I have not had a single problem with this 4300.

[NeverNotExhausted]

IMO you should save for intel. There's power supply concerns, motherboard quality issues, proper cooling, ect. that all have to be taken into account when upgrading fx processors.

 

Power supply concerns..... Motherboard quality issues.....

 

Wut

[i_build_nanosuits]

Think Intel it is. It's sad AMD does not do CPUs anymore. I have not had a single problem with this 4300.

you are having your first problem with it: it's not up to the task of feeding stronger GPU's in modern games...and so does every CPU's that AMD has on the market as of now.

[JoshM]

Asus M5 A99FX pro R2.0

I would go an 8350 then as your mobo is decent man, then get a better card when you can (7870 does well at 1080p gaming) 

[kpreg]

Power supply concerns..... Motherboard quality issues.....

 

Wut

There's around a 60 watt difference between the 4350 and 8350... (not tdp) 

 

If your motherboard doesn't have a proper VRM, then you're screwed for overclocking and maybe even running at stock speeds.

[LegendaryJC]

IMO you should save for intel. There's power supply concerns, motherboard quality issues, proper cooling, ect. that all have to be taken into account when upgrading fx processors.

I spent well enough into the motherboard and power supply where they should be good for at least 5 years. Same with cooling. My Cpu is watercooled which might of been a little over kill when I built this.

[i_build_nanosuits]

I spent well enough into the motherboard and power supply where they should be good for at least 5 years. Same with cooling. My Cpu is watercooled which might of been a little over kill when I built this.

do you have budget to upgrade your GPU as well?

[JoshM]

I spent well enough into the motherboard and power supply where they should be good for at least 5 years. Same with cooling. My Cpu is watercooled which might of been a little over kill when I built this.

Seriously I would go an 8350/8370 (if you want to save some power = less heat) then oc it.

Then get like a 290 or whatever you can afford, you will have a decent build that will last ages.

Your motherboard is 990fx which means its decent lol

[JoshM]

There's around a 60 watt difference between the 4350 and 8350... (not tdp) 

 

If your motherboard doesn't have a proper VRM, then you're screwed for overclocking and maybe even running at stock speeds.

It does as its 990fx not 970/760 etc 

[i_build_nanosuits]

Seriously I would go an 8350/8370 (if you want to save some power = less heat) then oc it.

Then get like a 290 or whatever you can afford, you will have a decent build that will last ages.

Your motherboard is 990fx which means its decent lol

FX-8320 is the max i would go...then overclock it to desired speed, save money.

or FX6300...both play games almost the same anyways.

[NeverNotExhausted]

There's around a 60 watt difference between the 4350 and 8350... (not tdp) 

 

If your motherboard doesn't have a proper VRM, then you're screwed for overclocking and maybe even running at stock speeds.

 

60 watts is bugger all and if you aren't overdoing your PSU by a fair amount then your just doing it wrong in the first place.

 

Also OCing a 8350 doesn't really take all that much in terms of VRM, I've had 8350's at 4.4Ghz on Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 boards and have been running fine for over a year since I started doing that config for people. Your not going to get fantastic OC's on a lower end board of course but your really greatly exaggerating the problem. 

[LegendaryJC]

you are having your first problem with it: it's not up to the task of feeding stronger GPU's in modern games...and so does every CPU's that AMD has on the market as of now.

All depends on how much money you throw at it. AMD is still good for the price. Not to say I won't be throwing a lot of money on the next build for Intel. Plus game utilize more of the GPU now a days.

[JoshM]

FX-8320 is the max i would go...then overclock it to desired speed, save money.

or FX6300...both play games almost the same anyways.

Sure some people got lucky with the 8320 but tbh the 8350/8370 will oc better as amd later released 9370/9590 chips which pretty much stole all the cherry picked 8320/8350 chips.

 

Wouldnt get anything under an 8320 tbh

[i_build_nanosuits]

Plus game utilize more of the GPU now a days.

that's a big miss-conception...many games are poorly optimised even games that launched this year or in 2014 still rely a lot on CPU processing...they tend to spread the load across more threads than they used to be, yes...but they still rely A LOT on cpu performance...and even the FX-8350 overclocked the 4.6ghz still limit the performance of higher end GPU's in many games (experienced this first hand i used to run a 4.6GHZ FX-8320 with my GTX 780 and the CPU was not up to the task of feeding such a GPU in modern games i had to perform an early platform upgrade only 3 MONTHS after i purchased the FX kit... bummer)

[LegendaryJC]

do you have budget to upgrade your GPU as well?

GTX 970 will be and upgrade soon or maybe what ever AMD might offer soon. So yea.