Upgrading cpu part 2

[10lawsonl]

So i had a previous topic that was about upgrading my cpu from a athlon 5350. And my problem then was either intel or amd.

Now my dilemma is...

On the blue corner(intel), im thinking about the i3 4130,4150,4160 and 4170. I could go for intel for the much stonger cores and there great for gaming. However my problem with them is that they are dual cores. You could say that they have hyperthreading. But do games that require at least four cores work with dual cores + hyperthreading.

And on the red corner (amd). Fx 4300 or the fx 6300. These have at least four cores but have weakers cores though.

So im wondering what is better

[Muz]

Pure gaming = Intel

Multi-core related tasks = AMD for dem cores

 

 

Go for what suits you.

[jc980]

The i3 will run quad-core games, just not pure dual-cores like the Pentium.

[TheMechEngineer]

Don't under-estimate the Core i3's just because they're dual cores.

They pack a punch.

[Nena Trinity]

FX-6300 is best in my book!

[incarnate]

Core i3s run any game out there well enough. Cpu heavy games might cause then to bottleneck high end gpus but they are still capable of 60 fps in most games. I3s tend to have better minimum framerates than amd cpus while maintaining similar average framerates and often better frametimes than fx cpus. The best amd has to offer performs about as well as an i3 (sometimes better sometimes worse but always close). And that's the best amd has to offer. The best benefit to an i3 I'd that you can easily upgrade to an i5/i7 if you need or want to, with amd, i3 gaming performance is the best available.

I had a system that ran an a10 7850k @4.2 ghz with an r9 270 and that bottlenecked in games like far cry 3. You could expect similar performance with the 4300. The 6300 is better, but an i3 still out performs it with the 8350-9590 matching and sometimes beating out the i3, but with worse minimum framerates which makes for a choppier experience. The i3 isn't perfect, but it competes with amd's entire product stack

[Nena Trinity]

Core i3s run any game out there well enough. Cpu heavy games might cause then to bottleneck high end gpus but they are still capable of 60 fps in most games. I3s tend to have better minimum framerates than amd cpus while maintaining similar average framerates and often better frametimes than fx cpus. The best amd has to offer performs about as well as an i3 (sometimes better sometimes worse but always close). And that's the best amd has to offer. The best benefit to an i3 I'd that you can easily upgrade to an i5/i7 if you need or want to, with amd, i3 gaming performance is the best available.

I had a system that ran an a10 7850k @4.2 ghz with an r9 270 and that bottlenecked in games like far cry 3. You could expect similar performance with the 4300. The 6300 is better, but an i3 still out performs it with the 8350-9590 matching and sometimes beating out the i3, but with worse minimum framerates which makes for a choppier experience. The i3 isn't perfect, but it competes with amd's entire product stack

Actually no the i3 is equal to the FX-6300 and it can be OCed to beat it and lets not forget the FX-8350 will win even more than FX-6300 in games such as Cities Skyline & Grey Goo... (VERY CPU INTENSIVE 8 TREADS IS A VERY GOOD IDEA!)

[incarnate]

Actually no the i3 is equal to the FX-6300 and it can be OCed to beat it and lets not forget the FX-8350 will win even more than FX-6300 in games such as Cities Skyline & Grey Goo... (VERY CPU INTENSIVE 8 TREADS IS A VERY GOOD IDEA!)

Most games don't use more than 4 threads.

[Nena Trinity]

Most games don't use more than 4 threads.

All I play seems to use 6 to 8 when I check last time! (yet 1-core draws calls from GPU because DX11 and older kinda is meh...)

[incarnate]

All I play seems to use 6 to 8 when I check last time! (yet 1-core draws calls from GPU because DX11 and older kinda is meh...)

All you play =/= most games out there

[Nena Trinity]

All you play =/= most games out there

I have a huge list of games... (even Unreal Tournament 3 has support up to 8 cores and how old is that game hmm?)