AMD CPU Choice

[CallMeMysterious]

I am gonna be building a Budget PC with a (at least) decent Cost/Performance ratio.

One of my friends came to me saying he will be building a computer with an AMD Athlon x4 860k (link here)

or if you don't trust Amazon, it is a quad core Athlon clocked at 3.7Ghz with a 95w TDP and 4Mb L3 Cashe and it turbos up to 4Ghz and uses the FM2+ (and as far as I know, it uses the Kaveri architecture)

 

The one I'm thinking of using is the AMD FX 6350 (link here)

if you still don't trust Amazon, it is a 6 core FX CPU clocked at 3.9Ghz (4.2Ghz turbo) with a 125w TDP and 6MB L3 Cashe which uses the AM3+ socket type.

 

So I have to decide between higher core count and cashe or better efficiency and cost. I personally am leaning towards the FX because of the wide variety of CPUs it supports. but let me know what you guys think. 

(or should I get an APU [here] instead)  

 

[Nena Trinity]

The FX-6350 will do better in modern games than the 860K but not in older ones that only uses two cores... What board are you gonna get for it and do you play Arma or DayZ? If so avoid FX, the FX is good but not for those two games...  

[unidentical]

I'd suggest waiting for Zen. If the hype is justified, it'll be worth the wait.

[CallMeMysterious]

I mainly play Black Ops 3 and Fallout 4 (and some source engine games)

Here is my full build list. I have a 750Ti FTW and an EVGA 600w Bronze PSU already.

If I decide to, I will replace the AM3+ board with this motherboard.

[CallMeMysterious]

5 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

The FX-6350 will do better in modern games than the 860K but not in older ones that only uses two cores... What board are you gonna get for it and do you play Arma or DayZ? If so avoid FX, the FX is good but not for those two games...  

I mainly play Black Ops 3 and Fallout 4 (and some source engine games)

Here is my full build list. I have a 750Ti FTW and an EVGA 600w Bronze PSU already.

If I decide to, I will replace the AM3+ board with this motherboard.

[Nena Trinity]

6 minutes ago, CallMeMysterious said:

I mainly play Black Ops 3 and Fallout 4 (and some source engine games)

Here is my full build list. I have a 750Ti FTW and an EVGA 600w Bronze PSU already.

If I decide to, I will replace the AM3+ board with this motherboard.

If you do not aim for 144fps gaming you should be fine then!

[CallMeMysterious]

Just now, Nena360 said:

If you do not aim for 144fps gaming you should be fine then!

I also am expecting a somewhat noticeable performance gain in both Fallout 4 and Black Ops 3 since they are rather CPU intensive games (but Fallout 4 more so)

I literally have the minimum CPU for Black Ops 3 (Intel Core i3 530) so that will help, and for fallout 4 it is the Intel Core i5-2300, however the recommended GPU is the 780 Ti (So my GPU is up to par, just not the CPU)

Thanks for the help! 

[Nena Trinity]

3 minutes ago, CallMeMysterious said:

I also am expecting a somewhat noticeable performance gain in both Fallout 4 and Black Ops 3 since they are rather CPU intensive games (but Fallout 4 more so)

I literally have the minimum CPU for Black Ops 3 (Intel Core i3 530) so that will help, and for fallout 4 it is the Intel Core i5-2300, however the recommended GPU is the 780 Ti (So my GPU is up to par, just not the CPU)

Thanks for the help! 

[FruitBasketSilex]

8 minutes ago, CallMeMysterious said:

I also am expecting a somewhat noticeable performance gain in both Fallout 4 and Black Ops 3 since they are rather CPU intensive games (but Fallout 4 more so)

I literally have the minimum CPU for Black Ops 3 (Intel Core i3 530) so that will help, and for fallout 4 it is the Intel Core i5-2300, however the recommended GPU is the 780 Ti (So my GPU is up to par, just not the CPU)

Thanks for the help! 

The 6350/860k are both a only a slight upgrade.

[Nena Trinity]

43 minutes ago, FruitBasketSilex said:

The 6350/860k are both a only a slight upgrade.

In his games the FX-6350 is a massive upgrade from a first gen i3...

[FruitBasketSilex]

2 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

In his games the FX-6350 is a massive upgrade from a first gen i3...

As far as source games go, hell no, i'm almost entirely sure they're single threaded.

Fallout 4 is multi-threaded pretty well.

Black Ops 3 is unknown.

[Nena Trinity]

9 hours ago, FruitBasketSilex said:

As far as source games go, hell no, i'm almost entirely sure they're single threaded.

Fallout 4 is multi-threaded pretty well.

Black Ops 3 is unknown.

There is a way to make it use more by adding "-threads 6" into launch options! (I did it works!) 

[CallMeMysterious]

5 hours ago, Nena360 said:

There is a way to make it use more by adding "-threads 6" into launch options! (I did it works!) 

Thanks, I'll try it

 

[FruitBasketSilex]

11 hours ago, Nena360 said:

There is a way to make it use more by adding "-threads 6" into launch options! (I did it works!) 

As has been told to you before, it doesn't actually use them.

[Nena Trinity]

7 minutes ago, FruitBasketSilex said:

As has been told to you before, it doesn't actually use them.

By that logic a 860K should beat my 8370 in CS:GO which it does not...  

[FruitBasketSilex]

53 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

By that logic a 860K should beat my 8370 in CS:GO which it does not...  

I'm done with you.

 

Go away, please.

[Nena Trinity]

45 minutes ago, FruitBasketSilex said:

I'm done with you.

 

Go away, please.

Fine!