Fx 6100. 6300 and athlon x4 860k

[Hojoh]

Hello everyone. Im new here and i plan on building a budget pc. My gpu cards would be either r9 380 or r7 370 or even 360. I do not have specified budget yet and i wanna know how would these cpu perform with r9 380. Im most interested about 860k and i do not know if it will bottleneck r9 380.

[rafazafar]

Hello everyone. Im new here and i plan on building a budget pc. My gpu cards would be either r9 380 or r7 370 or even 360. I do not have specified budget yet and i wanna know how would these cpu perform with r9 380. Im most interested about 860k and i do not know if it will bottleneck r9 380.

you will need to overclock them all to be reasonably competetive with intel.

I would definitely go with the 6300. the 860k is really struggling now with more games wanting more cores.

[GM_Peka]

6300 or go Intel i3.

 

The 6100 would be mind numblingly silly, as it isn't even current, the Athlon series have less cores and no L3 cache; effectively stripped down versions of the FX line, even though they are based on newer architecture.

 

i3 will generally give a more consistant performance, because while the 6300 will give a good performance on games that can use 6 cores, the i3 will destroy it in games that use 2 or even 4 cores.

 

The new Intel i3 6100 is actually a bit faster than the previous i3s, gaining speed through performance per clock aswell as gaining a clock boost overall. Making them a pretty speedy 2 core/4 thread processor.

[RuLeZ]

860K will botteneck the R9 380, trust me, I had it before I bought the Xeon(and the performance in some games DOUBLED), I suggest FX 6300 or i3, or if you are brave enough, wait for Zen.

[rafazafar]

6300 or go Intel i3.

 

The 6100 would be mind numblingly silly, as it isn't even current, the Athlon series have less cores and no L3 cache; effectively stripped down versions of the FX line, even though they are based on newer architecture.

 

i3 will generally give a more consistant performance, because while the 6300 will give a good performance on games that can use 6 cores, the i3 will destroy it in games that use 2 or even 4 cores.

6300 is faster/same as i3 in games usually, once overclocked, its defenitely faster. So i would say 6300 or upgrade to i5.

And mild overclocking costs bit of money, but can patchup the weakness in less utilised cores on certain games while still excel at others

...sooo depends on the OP really . 

note: even the same game, when theres parts where it gets cpu intensive, the amd might pull ahead. like, witcher3

[ZetZet]

6300 is faster/same as i3 in games usually, once overclocked, its defenitely faster.

No it's not, it's not even close. Skylake i3 is miles ahead of 6300 in every game. 

 

[rafazafar]

 

Thats a titan x. ofcourse. were talking about 380 here. And also skylake needs more expesive mobo and it itself is pricier. so im only comparing to a haswell i3

[RuLeZ]

No it's not, it's not even close. Skylake i3 is miles ahead of 6300 in every game. 

 

Yeah but you can OC the FX 6300, thats why is so popular.

[ZetZet]

Yeah but you can OC the FX 6300, thats why is so popular.

yeah, you could OC it to keep up with Haswell i3. OCing doesn't add that much performance since 6300 already runs at high clockspeeds. 

[GM_Peka]

6300 is faster/same as i3 in games usually, once overclocked, its defenitely faster. So i would say 6300 or upgrade to i5.

And mild overclocking costs bit of money, but can patchup the weakness in less utilised cores on certain games while still excel at others

...sooo depends on the OP really . 

I dunno about that, maybe against an ivybridge i3 that'd be pretty spot on, but just look at this.

 

 

And most of those games in the video actually work pretty well with large core counts, in some older games, the AMD chip would get slaughtered. 

 

Edit: oh someone already posted the video, I was that long rewriting my message.

[RuLeZ]

yeah, you could OC it to keep up with Haswell i3. OCing doesn't add that much performance since 6300 already runs at high clockspeeds. 

People can easily get from 3,5GHz to 4,2Ghz-4,4Ghz with air cooling, I call it a nice OC.

[GM_Peka]

People can easily get from 3,5GHz to 4,2Ghz-4,4Ghz with air cooling, I call it a nice OC.

You should focus more on the boost clock, which is 4.1GHz, anyone can easily get the 6300 running at 4.1 with very simple/little bios tweaking.

[rafazafar]

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look, the i3 is pricier. the 6300 is cheaper, is the i3 worth the 2-4 fps difference(it goes both ways, so in my book, thats 0) ? up to the op. and when you hit areas u need need more cores, the amd leaps ahead. and once overclocked that 2-4fps diffrence disappears. to me, no its not. But if op wants a simple no frills pc, then sure get the i3. but might as well save bit more for a  low tier i5 if you are already going for i3.

 

big note : i3 haswell/r . not skylake. mobo with usb3 headers

 

Dear OP, this is just cpu comparisons. as a whole build, we would need more info as to your update cycle, budget, location and so on to even remotely give advice.

[RuLeZ]

You should focus more on the boost clock, which is 4.1GHz, anyone can easily get the 6300 running at 4.1 with very simple/little bios tweaking.

All the 6 cores turbo boost only to 3.8Ghz, I think that just when 2 cores are used they can reach 4.1

[GM_Peka]

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[RuLeZ]

anyone can easily get the 6300 running at 4.1 with very simple/little bios tweaking. As in change a few settings and you have 4.1 on all cores.

I know, I just saying this because on the video it is just at 3.8Ghz, it is kinda misleading because the i3 doesnt OC.

[Hojoh]

Ok guys. Thanks for your opinions. Lets say that i will not go above 600 bucks. And in my country 1151 mb are all above 100 dolars and ddr4 memory is more expensive. So that doesn't leave too much space for gpu.

What do you think about zen. Will it be cheaper than this skylake i3 or more expensive. As far as i can see it is not worth it to get fx right now.

[Nena Trinity]

Look up 860K vs FX-6300 by Keith on YouTube it's the best video!

[Coaxialgamer]

X4 860k. The better single core performance is key.