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Hi guys! So I was going to buy a new cpu for my gaming PC to go with my r9 280x but seeing as the FX 8370 and the i5 6500 are at the same price I can't decide which one to buy? Which one is better? Which one will get me more frames in my main game: world of Warcraft?

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1 minute ago, ChrisLombart said:

Hi guys! So I was going to buy a new cpu for my gaming PC to go with my r9 280x but seeing as the FX 8370 and the i5 6500 are at the same price I can't decide which one to buy? Which one is better? Which one will get me more frames in my main game: world of Warcraft?

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The i5 has wayyy better single threaded performance however you can't overclock it.

 

The FX can overclock and is better for multithreaded applications. 

 

So, the question is, WILL you overclock and are the applications you are running support more than 4 cores? If so, then FX is for you. However, if all you are doing is playing games, browsing the Internets, and you wont be overclocking, then the i5 is for you.

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Easily the i5 for gaming thanks to its much higher IPC. Not to mention the upgrade path (whereas AM3+ is a dead socket), less heat output and DDR4 RAM.

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18 minutes ago, ChrisLombart said:

Hi guys! So I was going to buy a new cpu for my gaming PC to go with my r9 280x but seeing as the FX 8370 and the i5 6500 are at the same price I can't decide which one to buy? Which one is better? Which one will get me more frames in my main game: world of Warcraft?

i5. i5 i5 i5 i5 i5. AMD's APUs are spectacular for their designed purpose, and their Athlon x4 860K remains my favorite extreme budget gamer CPU. Until Zen comes out, however, their high-end CPUs are only good for warming buns at idle, toasting bagels under moderate load and as implements of arson during stress tests.

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3 hours ago, Liltrekkie said:

The i5 has wayyy better single threaded performance however you can't overclock it.

 

The FX can overclock and is better for multithreaded applications. 

 

So, the question is, WILL you overclock and are the applications you are running support more than 4 cores? If so, then FX is for you. However, if all you are doing is playing games, browsing the Internets, and you wont be overclocking, then the i5 is for you.

You can overclock it if you get the correct motherboard and flash an older/newer bios to it :)

 

 

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1 minute ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

You can overclock it if you get the correct motherboard and flash an older/newer bios to it :)

I thought that only worked with i3's? And I don't think it works anymore. They closed that loophole, so it's up to you, up to date BIOS with latest bug fixes or overclocking. 

 

If it were me I'd just spend the little extra money for an i7 k CPU tbh

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3 minutes ago, Liltrekkie said:

I thought that only worked with i3's? And I don't think it works anymore. They closed that loophole, so it's up to you, up to date BIOS with latest bug fixes or overclocking. 

 

If it were me I'd just spend the little extra money for an i7 k CPU tbh

A 6700K is over $120 more than a 6500...

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3 hours ago, Liltrekkie said:

I thought that only worked with i3's? And I don't think it works anymore. They closed that loophole, so it's up to you, up to date BIOS with latest bug fixes or overclocking. 

 

If it were me I'd just spend the little extra money for an i7 k CPU tbh

It works with any locked chip, my i3 is at 4.3GHz as I type this. i5-6500s, Pentium G4400s, i7-6700s ect all can do it.

The difference between my BIOs and the Newer versions ( at least with my bios ) is no Skylake OC and other small things that are very very minimal to myself. Nothing mentions bug fixes.

 

 

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i5 6500 for better IPC and DDR4.

29 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

It works with any locked chip, my i3 is at 4.3GHz as I type this. i5-6500s, Pentium G4400s, i7-6700s ect all can do it.

The difference between my BIOs and the Newer versions ( at least with my bios ) is no Skylake OC and other small things that are very very minimal to myself. Nothing mentions bug fixes.

A lot of motherboards got recalled and got their BIOS updated so it doesn't work anymore. My friend also got an i5 6500 and non-Z170 motherboard (H170 I think) but the BIOS is already the latest version out of the box and it was one of those early generic H170 motherboards that came out of the market, I wouldn't risk gambling and hoping for a motherboard with an earlier BIOS version, especially when he is not familiar with CPUs and overclocking anyway.

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i5 or wait for zen if you want amd... anything else is a waste of money

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3 hours ago, ApolloFury said:

i5 6500 for better IPC and DDR4.

A lot of motherboards got recalled and got their BIOS updated so it doesn't work anymore. My friend also got an i5 6500 and non-Z170 motherboard (H170 I think) but the BIOS is already the latest version out of the box and it was one of those early generic H170 motherboards that came out of the market, I wouldn't risk gambling and hoping for a motherboard with an earlier BIOS version, especially when he is not familiar with CPUs and overclocking anyway.

Almost certain that you cannot do a BCLK OC on an H170 Board.

Even if your BIOs is updated to a newer version, nothing is stopping you from loading a BIOs onto a USB stick and flashing it. Now even though my mobo was on V1.0 and I flashed it to 2.43, I could easily flash v2.8 and back to 2.43 if I so choose to.

It isn't a gamble, it doesn't void your warranty to flash an older bios to the mobo.

Again, I wouldn't OC on an H170 board.

 

 

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29 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

It works with any locked chip, my i3 is at 4.3GHz as I type this. i5-6500s, Pentium G4400s, i7-6700s ect all can do it.

The difference between my BIOs and the Newer versions ( at least with my bios ) is no Skylake OC and other small things that are very very minimal to myself. Nothing mentions bug fixes.

Actually it was a Gigabyte B150 motherboard. At his place we couldn't flash to previous versions because there was a dialog box that says it wouldn't accept earlier versions. It really depends on the manufacturer or model. I do know ASRock is very flexible and Intel is not happy about ASRock doing it in the first place.

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i5-6500 definitely is better CPU overall especially for gaming! FX 8370 is outdated.

 

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