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[dragoon20005]

i3 wins all CPU listed

 

your games will thank you for picking the i3 which has 4 treads

[ProdigyzMined]

Welcome to the forum! Be sure to follow your own posts, top right! @Gooplez

 

I'd personally get either the i3 or the FX-6300. 2 cores is simply not enough for AAA games, and the FX series is hard to beat at this price range. If you want to upgrade to an i5 and lack some performance now though, the i3 build will do just fine until you get the i5. If you don't plan on overclocking, just get a H97, Z87 or H87 board, as you can save some $ by getting a board that does not support overclocking.

[Demons Wrath]

If you're willing to learn how to overclock (and you should be, the benefits are great to behold), you should probably go with the G3258. Use that to learn how to overclock, and then when you're sufficiently schooled in the process and have the money to do so, upgrade to a unlocked i5.

[C_Mike]

Go with the i3. Those extra two threads will help immensely in most games nowadays.

 

The pentium is a pretty good CPU, (especially if you overlock it), but if you can afford it, I would almost certainly suggest you go for the i3.

[Arc_Jester]

I would Replace the FX with an quad core A10.

[DimasRMDO]

i3 wins all CPU listed

 

your games will thank you for picking the i3 which has 4 treads

i3, games like stronger cores, beside that i3 has Hyper-Threading which helps performance. Although the G3258 has big overclocking headroom.

[dragoon20005]

Welcome to the forum! Be sure to follow your own posts, top right!

 

I'd personally get either the i3 or the FX-6300. 2 cores is simply not enough for AAA games, and the FX series is hard to beat at this price range. If you want to upgrade to an i5 and lack some performance now, the i3 build will do.

actually games like DayZ and Arma suck hard with the FX builds

 

it works fine with Intel i3 CPU

 

and it has 4 treads which helps in most games

[manikyath]

for the sole reason minecraft is in that list the AMD falls out of question.

(EDIT: dont question this, i have plenty of experience to say this is a thing)

 

i'd suggest the i3 over both other options because it has much better single core performance than the AMD, and is better at multitasking than the pentium. (only get the pentium if you're only going to do one thing at a time, and if the games you play dont have optimalization for more than 2 cores.)

[JoshM]

I would get the i3 if you plan to upgrade later to an unlocked i5/i7 if you were not looking to upgrade on the same platform (aka future intel/ amd chipsets) I would get the FX 6300 and OC the crap out of it. 

[ProdigyzMined]

actually games like DayZ and Arma suck hard with the FX builds

 

it works fine with Intel i3 CPU

 

and it has 4 treads which helps in most games

 

for the sole reason minecraft is in that list the AMD falls out of question.

(EDIT: dont question this, i have plenty of experience to say this is a thing)

 

i'd suggest the i3 over both other options because it has much better single core performance than the AMD, and is better at multitasking than the pentium. (only get the pentium if you're only going to do one thing at a time, and if the games you play dont have optimalization for more than 2 cores.)

Yes, I'll question that. why exatly will the AMD be SO much worse than an i3? i had a sandybridge i3 before my system now, and I can tell you that i wished for 2 years that I had gone team red. Many games, Minecraft included, along with BF4, HATED the two-core-four-thread mess that the i3 was. BF4 refused to run, period, and Minecraft had some crazy FPS drops. I can safely say now those were not as a result of the GPU (HD 7770) as I still use it now and I can now play BF4 on medium, with >70 FPS all the time. 

[manikyath]

Yes, I'll question that. why exatly will the AMD be SO much worse than an i3? i had a sandybridge i3 before my system now, and I can tell you that i wished for 2 years that I had gone team red. Many games, Minecraft included, along with BF4, HATED the two-core-four-thread mess that the i3 was. BF4 refused to run, period, and Minecraft had some crazy FPS drops. I can safely say now those were not as a result of the GPU (HD 7770) as I still use it now and I can now play BF4 on medium, with >70 FPS all the time. 

i can guarantee you minecraft will run worse on AMD than it will on an i3, i see this happen time in time again, where friends of mine get an AMD, and it runs like a joke compared to an intel. i've seen fps differences go up to twice the performance on intel over AMD. (even not alone in minecraft, a friend of mine had an issue with i7, having him swap to an AMD 8350, getting him barely half the FPS in H1Z1 as he got with his intel)

either these tests all had a random factor making it happen this way over and over, or -in fact- AMD's single core performance isnt as good as that of a haswell intel chip.

 

do note all these results where with haswell based intel, and i've seen the same kind of difference between nehalem and haswell.

 

EDIT: forgot to mention, for total performance intel has nothing in this price range that can compete, but a lot of games wont even use more than two cores. (minecraft uses one core, and a second one a bit, all source games use either one or two cores (configurable)

 

also, FPS drops in minecraft are usually more memory related than CPU related, minecraft works VERY weird... i've seen minecraft work fine one day, have fps drops the other, and be fine again the next...

[ProdigyzMined]

i can guarantee you minecraft will run worse on AMD than it will on an i3, i see this happen time in time again, where friends of mine get an AMD, and it runs like a joke compared to an intel. i've seen fps differences go up to twice the performance on intel over AMD. (even not alone in minecraft, a friend of mine had an issue with i7, having him swap to an AMD 8350, getting him barely half the FPS in H1Z1 as he got with his intel)

either these tests all had a random factor making it happen this way over and over, or -in fact- AMD's single core performance isnt as good as that of a haswell intel chip.

do note all these results where with haswell based intel, and i've seen the same kind of difference between nehalem and haswell.

EDIT: forgot to mention, for total performance intel has nothing in this price range that can compete, but a lot of games wont even use more than two cores. (minecraft uses one core, and a second one a bit, all source games use either one or two cores (configurable)

also, FPS drops in minecraft are usually more memory related than CPU related, minecraft works VERY weird... i've seen minecraft work fine one day, have fps drops the other, and be fine again the next...

Well you're right: AMD's single core performance is nowhere near that of an Intel chip. Keep in mind that Minecraft is Java based, which explains its strange behavior and high memory needs. I still end up recommending AMD at this pricepoint though due to it's multi core performance, and I personally haven't had any 'bad' experiences with AMD processors in games. To each his own

[manikyath]

Well you're right: AMD's single core performance is nowhere near that of an Intel chip. Keep in mind that Minecraft is Java based, which explains its strange behavior and high memory needs. I still end up recommending AMD at this pricepoint though due to it's multi core performance, and I personally haven't had any 'bad' experiences with AMD processors in games. To each his own

i completely agree with you on the multi core performance (and indeed, to each his own) i'm just here to say that for whatever reason it may be, minecraft + AMD its a terrible experience in most cases i've heard of (until you start recording a video or livestreaming, because there the other cores come in) 

i'd actually have said the AMD chip if the only two games on the list i know werent games that only use 2 cores.

 

something that i have to say in favor of the AMD is that they (with adequate cooling) overclock trough the roof.

i'm still waiting on an intel 8-core that can hit 5.2 GHz stabile... (not applicable here though, since OP doesnt want to OC)

[Prolly_dyin]

For what games you plan on playing it won't matter terribly much what you get. The main thing would be if you'ld want to do things like play games while say searching the web on another display or window while listening to music. Intel is know for it's single thread performance making them a great choice for gaming; However, you'll probably run into issues while trying to do even mild multitasking, which is where the more cores on the 6300 will outperform the budget intel cpus. 

 

One of my good friends actually has a system with nearly the same configuration as the amd build you listed. I was really pretty impressed with how well the fx6300 and 750ti handled games like cs:go, TF2, and even Borderlands 2 fairly well.