FX6300 vs FX8120

[Ulaxu]

I'm looking at my first PC build, and I'm looking to use it for gaming. I am using an EVGA GTX 750ti FTW in this build and need some help choosing a CPU. My friend has offered me his FX8120 3.1GHz 8 core CPU for £50, however previously to this I was looking at an FX6300 3.5GHz 6 core at around £77. Can anyone give me some advice on which is my best option, performance wise aswell as value for money. I am also using h55 watercooling with the intention to overclock, thank you in advance for any help

[jjbone1000]

Value for money wise the 8120 is better value for money but if you have not bought the mboard yet I would go for an fm2+ board and get an 860k instead. same price as your 8120 but much better performance.

[Prysin]

11 hours ago, Ulaxu said:

I'm looking at my first PC build, and I'm looking to use it for gaming. I am using an EVGA GTX 750ti FTW in this build and need some help choosing a CPU. My friend has offered me his FX8120 3.1GHz 8 core CPU for £50, however previously to this I was looking at an FX6300 3.5GHz 6 core at around £77. Can anyone give me some advice on which is my best option, performance wise aswell as value for money. I am also using h55 watercooling with the intention to overclock, thank you in advance for any help

8120 has lower IPC and worse clock scaling. in practice it will be more or less equal to the 6300

[SkilledRebuilds]

Hope for silicon lottery with the 8-core.

I helped push my friends 8120 to 4.8Ghz with his vrm's not hot enough to throttle, it was a great result from that CPU.

(A litle bit of fiddling and testing, but thats a given when finetuning)

 

Even if the 8-core didn't scale that high, I'd still choose one over the FX6, and just deal with it and then invest into a newer platform later on.

[Guest]

6300 all day.

Higher OC, a lot of games still aren't using all 8 cores. 

[SkilledRebuilds]

And the difference between 4.4Ghz and 4.8Ghz performance isn't that much in games either.. on either CPU, still similar performance in a range of games.

So more cores for productivity (which you will see), less cored FX6300 for higher potential overclocking headroom (which may not be the case aka - silicon lottery)

 

[Nena Trinity]

14 hours ago, jjbone1000 said:

Value for money wise the 8120 is better value for money but if you have not bought the mboard yet I would go for an fm2+ board and get an 860k instead. same price as your 8120 but much better performance.

Nope you want a minimum of 6-cores on the AMD side so FX-6300... (or FX-6350 if you want the nice cooler)

[jjbone1000]

3 hours ago, Nena360 said:

Nope you want a minimum of 6-cores on the AMD side so FX-6300... (or FX-6350 if you want the nice cooler)

Forgot about AMDs false core count. AMD only have half the physical cores.

 

[Nena Trinity]

1 minute ago, jjbone1000 said:

Forgot about AMDs false core count. AMD only have half the physical cores.

 

Yeah sorta but in truth its 1.5 cores per module! (I guess you can say their quad-core are tri-cores their six-core are 4.5-cores and their eight-core would be six-cores but that is a mess and would confuse people even more...)