I regret it everyday

[Omie]

I built this computer about 2 years ago and to this day, I still regret my decision.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qZjygs

Long story short, I had an $800-900 budget and people recommended me to go with an AMD based system with an FX-6300 CPU.

I stated that I wanted to play mmorpg's and every game I try now either has low fps, huge fps drops, and just stutters.

I have yet to find a game that I can run enjoyably. Even league of legends and an old 2D game called Maplestory stutters so much that it has become unplayable and unbearable. People I watch who are on Intel have no problems.

I tried many things such as old driver versions, completely reinstalling OS and reformatting the hard drive, reinstalling mobo drivers, checking temps, etc. I guess it is just crap architecture that AMD uses.

I don't understand why AMD still makes CPU's, they are complete garbage. It only has decent performance where games utilize many cores which is rare.

Ended up dropping $1k+ on this build with the OS, monitor and peripherals, I was a noob back then. Never buying any AMD products again, terrible experience.


Anyways, if you plan on building a gaming Pc just go with at least an Intel CPU over AMD and save yourself the trouble.

 

Here are some videos in-case you do plan on buying an AMD CPU:

 

Maplestory stutter: <removed by staff>

 

Diablo 3 Unstable CPU: <removed by staff>

 

Diablo 3 fps drops (from 60 fps down to 38 when attacking a mob): <removed by staff>

 

EDIT: Also tested Battlefield 3, everything on max I get around 30-40-50 fps. I can maintain solid 60 if I am looking at a wall but as soon as I look into the distance or get into a gunfight, the fps plummets.

[Guest]

I should have met you...

 

@TheN00bBuilder What did I say?

[Omie]

I should have met you...

@TheN00bBuilder What did I say?

Me too bro, me too

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

It was probably okay for the standard then. But certainly not now. Anyhow, if you want to get into MMORPGs your main priority is a CPU upgrade. The gpu can wait.

Not sure how anyone told you going with a FX would be fine for MMOs..... 

[Guest]

I built this computer about 2 years ago and to this day, I still regret my decision.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qZjygs

 

Long story short, I had an $800-900 budget and people recommended me to go with an AMD based system with an FX-6300 CPU.

 

I stated that I wanted to play mmorpg's and every game I try now either has low fps, huge fps drops, and just stutters.

 

I have yet to find a game that I can run enjoyably. Even league of legends and an old 2D game called Maplestory stutters so much that is has become unplayable and unbearable. People I watch who are on Intel have no problems.

 

I tried many things such as old driver versions, completely reinstalling OS and reformatting the hard drive, reinstalling mobo drivers, checking temps, etc. I guess it is just crap architecture that AMD uses.

 

I don't understand why AMD still makes CPU's, they are complete garbage. It only has decent performance where games utilize many cores which is rare.

 

Ended up dropping $1k+ on this build with the OS, monitor and peripherals, I was a noob back then. Never buying any AMD products again, terrible experience.

 

 

Anyways, if you plan on building a gaming Pc just go with at least an Intel CPU over AMD and save yourself the trouble.

You can't just say AMD sucks (I'm an Intel Fanboy)

AMD still makes great cards, but the CPUs aren't really great

But yeah during that time it was the "thing"

And Pls don't start a flame war 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

And Pls don't start a flame war 

 

From the moment OP bought his/her FX, it has already started 

[FireFox]

Video card is still pretty decent but that CPU will probably be your downfall at the moment. Get an FX-8350 which should help otherwise save some more money and go Intel.

[Omie]

You can't just say AMD sucks (I'm an Intel Fanboy)

AMD still makes great cards, but the CPUs aren't really great

And Pls don't start a flame war

Yeah I mainly meant the CPU. But still I wouldn't even go for their GPU's either considering their comparisons with nVidia, but that's just me and my experience.

[_JohnB330ci]

I built this computer about 2 years ago and to this day, I still regret my decision.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qZjygs

Long story short, I had an $800-900 budget and people recommended me to go with an AMD based system with an FX-6300 CPU.

I stated that I wanted to play mmorpg's and every game I try now either has low fps, huge fps drops, and just stutters.

I have yet to find a game that I can run enjoyably. Even league of legends and an old 2D game called Maplestory stutters so much that it has become unplayable and unbearable. People I watch who are on Intel have no problems.

I tried many things such as old driver versions, completely reinstalling OS and reformatting the hard drive, reinstalling mobo drivers, checking temps, etc. I guess it is just crap architecture that AMD uses.

I don't understand why AMD still makes CPU's, they are complete garbage. It only has decent performance where games utilize many cores which is rare.

Ended up dropping $1k+ on this build with the OS, monitor and peripherals, I was a noob back then. Never buying any AMD products again, terrible experience.

Anyways, if you plan on building a gaming Pc just go with at least an Intel CPU over AMD and save yourself the trouble.

 

My FX 8350 has been fine since I got it.

[ManOfDisguise]

I regret putting 8350 in my build but hey, people from ltt reccomended it srsly i should have gone for Intel, AMD has crap CPUs

[_JohnB330ci]

Yeah I mainly meant the CPU. But still I wouldn't even go for their GPU's either considering their comparisons with nVidia, but that's just me and my experience.

 

My R9 290X is strong and well as well, going to 2x R9 390X's soon, just your bad experience.

[Omie]

Video card is still pretty decent but that CPU will probably be your downfall at the moment. Get an FX-8350 which should help otherwise save some more money and go Intel.

I would never do that bro lol. I'm done with AMD. It's weird because all their CPUS perform the same unless the game is heavily optimized for multi core such as battlefield. This guy has an FX-9xxx or whatever they call them and he was getting major stutters like me on Maplestory, a 2D game lol.

[FireFox]

I would never do that bro lol. I'm done with AMD. It's weird because all their CPUS perform the same unless the game is heavily optimized for multi core such as battlefield. This guy has an FX-9xxx or whatever they call them and he was getting major stutters like me on Maplestory, a 2D game lol.

 

Well stick with it for a while longer and get a Core i5-4690K and a nice Z97 board or wait for the upcoming Intel Z170's and Skylake

[Guest]

Yeah I mainly meant the CPU. But still I wouldn't even go for their GPU's either considering their comparisons with nVidia, but that's just me and my experience.

It's really a subjective case most of the time

The 2xx series was great and now the 3xx is turning out to be great as well

The only time I wouldn't consider their cards would be for a $2000 or higher budget

[Razarza]

Dunno why you would have issues in League, my old 8320 is in a friend's PC and that is pretty much all he plays and he gets a solid 60fps (GPU is a 5750) without issue.

[Omie]

Well stick with it for a while longer and get a Core i5-4690K and a nice Z97 board or wait for the upcoming Intel Z170's and Skylake

Yeah, my parents are actually still using an old desktop with 512mb of ram lol. I might build another computer and just give them this one since all they do is surf the Internet.

Would it be worth waiting till Black Friday/cyber Monday to build an Intel based system with like a 900-1000 budget? I've been eyeing the 4690 and 970 combo lately.

[Omie]

Dunno why you would have issues in League, my old 8320 is in a friend's PC and that is pretty much all he plays and he gets a solid 60fps (GPU is a 5750) without issue.

Yeah I get solid 60 as well, but my game just stutters which is what kills it.

[FireFox]

Yeah, my parents are actually still using an old desktop with 512mb of ram lol. I might build another computer and just give them this one since all they do is surf the Internet.

Would it be worth waiting till Black Friday/cyber Monday to build an Intel based system with like a 900-1000 budget? I've been eyeing the 4690 and 970 combo lately.

 

Yea should be good though if you wait and see what Skylake has to offer

[Guest]

Yeah I get solid 60 as well, but my game just stutters which is what kills it.

I doubt that's your CPU's fault though.

 

Is your cooler well placed on the cpu?

[Omie]

I doubt that's your CPU's fault though.

 

Is your cooler well placed on the cpu?

Yeah, my temps are fine and everything too.

[Razarza]

Yeah I get solid 60 as well, but my game just stutters which is what kills it.

Yeah I understood that from your original post, the thing I find strange is that League doesn't stutter at all on my 8320.

I'm not denying that your 6300 would stutter in games as I had heaps of similar issues when I used my 8320 for gaming, even properly optimised games like Battlefield would stutter.

[mayu]

Not all AMD products are that bad

 

I would have got 390 instead of 970, if they haven't delayed the release this late

[Guest]

I still doubt the stutter is the CPU's fault

[Razarza]

Since you already have some DDR3 all you would need to buy to upgrade would be the CPU and Motherboard which should be less than 300USD unless you wanted to overclock.

[Omie]

I still doubt the stutter is the CPU's fault

 

I'm pretty sure it is. The reason being, for Maplestory, I go on twitch and look at people's system specs in their description.

 

Everyone who has intel cpu's have no stutter at all.

 

People on AMD, like I mentioned the guy on the FX-9xxx series had stutters everywhere. Furthermore, someone told me that had the exact same problem and it was fixed when they switched the mobo and went intel lol.