fx-4100 or i3 6100?

[lolzisgoodforu]

so i used to have an fx 8350 and i accidentally killed it with overvoltage, so then i moved to an i3 6100 because its intel and i could upgrade further in the future, but i i signed up for the amazon rewards doodad and i now have $50 off whatever i need on amazon, an fx-4100 is exactly $50. so should i get this fx 4100? will is give better gaming performance over the i3? i have a gtx 1060 6GB and at the moment the i3 literally bottlenecks the heck out of it, i know the 4100 will still be a bottleneck but will it be as much of a bottleneck? and i do some content creation too so will the 4 cores of the fx beat the 2 cores and 4 threads of the i3? 

[MrIceCremeLollipop]

The i3 is probably better, The fx is 6 years old. 

[The Sloth]

Just now, MrIceCremeLollipop said:

The i3 is probably better

not probably, it's much better. 

[Aphexxis]

i3 does gymnastics whilst belly dancing and doing cartman jokes, the FX can only manage to browse Chrome.

[EPPHO]

Should have gotten G4560. By the way 6100 doesn't bottleneck 1060 too much,only in few CPU intensive games

[Lurick]

The FX-4100 would probably be like the hoover damn of bottle necks for your GPU compared to the 6100.

Why not just save the rewards and some money and buy a 6600 or something down the line?

[Damascus]

save up and get a locked i7 for any content creation

[Guest]

The i3 6100 is much superior than the FX-4100.

[lolzisgoodforu]

1 minute ago, frozeNNN said:

Should have gotten G4560. By the way 6100 doesn't bottleneck 1060 too much,only in few CPU intensive games

 i mostly play battlefield and open world games like just cause 3 a lot, so for the games that i play the i3 is a very large bottleneck

[Princess Luna]

4 minutes ago, frozeNNN said:

Should have gotten G4560. By the way 6100 doesn't bottleneck 1060 too much,only in few CPU intensive games

I was thinking the same thing, I dare say the i3 6100 manages to keep up fully with the 3gb 1060 even while it manages to squeeze all of the 1050ti juice out, the bottleneck is not that big at all.

 

Also no way a FX cpu would ever beat a skylake one, that is being logical about what you pay for, if you go compare a FX-9590 against the g4400 then yah.............. they might end up equal

[Guest]

1 minute ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

 i mostly play battlefield and open world games like just cause 3 a lot, so for the games that i play the i3 is a very large bottleneck

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

 i mostly play battlefield and open world games like just cause 3 a lot, so for the games that i play the i3 is a very large bottleneck

It is not a bottleneck, it is just incapable of giving the performance you want, the rig is well balanced as it is, you might be getting the meaning of the word wrong here.

[Shiv78]

Use the $50 on a new peripheral or save for a 6400

[lolzisgoodforu]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

thank you, you are actually helpful

[lolzisgoodforu]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

It is not a bottleneck, it is just incapable of giving the performance you want, the rig is well balanced as it is, you might be getting the meaning of the word wrong here.

so if its not called a bottleneck where my cpu is maxing out its usage and my gpu cant get past 60% then what is it called

[EPPHO]

6 minutes ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

 i mostly play battlefield and open world games like just cause 3 a lot, so for the games that i play the i3 is a very large bottleneck

For these games,yes it is bottlenecking not not "very large" at all

[EPPHO]

3 minutes ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

so if its not called a bottleneck where my cpu is maxing out its usage and my gpu cant get past 60% then what is it called

I fell like you play on 720/768/900p monitor

[Damascus]

3 minutes ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

so if its not called a bottleneck where my cpu is maxing out its usage and my gpu cant get past 60% then what is it called

My 6700K does the same with my GTX 1050 ti.  Realistically you won't see %100 usage from a GPU in games.  Artificial stress tests are the only time I've ever  maxed both

[Damascus]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

I fell like you play on 720/768/900p monitor

Yeah, that would force the CPU to work harder

[lolzisgoodforu]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

I fell like you play on 720/768/900p monitor

1080p, believe me if i had a 720p monitor then i wouldnt be focusing on a new cpu lol

[lolzisgoodforu]

Just now, Damascus said:

My 6700K does the same with my GTX 1050 ti.  Realistically you won't see %100 usage from a GPU in games.  Artificial stress tests are the only time I've ever  maxed both

when i had my fx 8350 my gpu stayed at 99% usage while dropping to the low 90%'s from time to time

[EPPHO]

1 minute ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

1080p, believe me if i had a 720p monitor then i wouldnt be focusing on a new cpu lol

Well if your 1060 is running at 60% with i3 6100 I would consider checking some shit, it's not working properly

[lolzisgoodforu]

1 minute ago, frozeNNN said:

Well if your 1060 is running at 60% with i3 6100 I would consider checking some shit, it's not working properly

[Princess Luna]

Just now, lolzisgoodforu said:

1080p, believe me if i had a 720p monitor then i wouldnt be focusing on a new cpu lol

It should use at least 80% The thing I mean is that graphically speaking you're not far from maxing the potential of the video card, but yes BF1 is one of the most demanding games on processors there is, and this trend is to be more and more common from now on, if you really want to be safe save for a locked i7 7700, threads are becoming too important to ignore them, even more than core clocks.

 

The whole purpose of DX12 and Vulkan is increase how well games can multi-thread effectively, we are on the transition period, so a lot of people still say unlocked i5 is the best to go while that's an outdated truth.

[Aphexxis]

Bottlenecks exist in every computer, people like to use it as a term to describe lower than some other computers performance.

 

Truth is even the best computers are bottlenecked, it's not possible to have zero bottlenecking.