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disolitude on 12 September 2013
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Captain_Tom said:
CGI-Quality said:
Captain_Tom said:
superchunk said:

I wouldn't pick AMD over Intel. At the moment the Intel CPUs blow away AMD. Additionally, you should NOT go with integrated GPU if you want best possible gaming experience.

I just put together a good build for about $800 (on NewEgg) that should run Battlefield 4 (as an example) extremely well with a Haswell i5, 670 (2GB GDDR5), 8B DDR3 (3000oc) and Win8 for the new DX stuff.

I kinda wanted to walk away from WinPCs but I also kinda want to play BF4 and my last build was in 2008 so its about time to upgrade and give away the even older 2001 build I still have downstairs.

For instance an Intel i3 looks great until you realize that the AMD FX-6300 is the same price and outperforms it in most new games while destroying it in demanding ones (Crysis 3).

This makes twice that I've heard this about the FX-6300. I've not tried that particular proc (I've mostly compared i5-7 with AMD procs).

Well right now it is the hidden Gem of CPU's IMO.  The i3-2120 was about 2 years ago but here check this out:

 

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imgur.com/0nIkCAb.jpg&imgrefurl=http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t%3D2302954&h=812&w=636&sz=116&tbnid=rPYfWpoXHeA1WM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=70&zoom=1&usg=__qWZNdf9Cn-yaWcPrndpln0c6IZ8=&docid=RmElDeQjqJ0u0M&sa=X&ei=xTcyUqKoM8Tm2QWpsYHQBw&ved=0CDIQ9QEwAQ&dur=325

FX 6300 is a great value right now for sure. i see tigerdirect PC bundles with components that include the FX6300 under 300 bucks...too bad the PSU is always shit. :)

The thing is, I would have no issues putting an FX 6300 in to a high end gaming rig with a GTX 770 or 7970. Overclocking the snot out of it would pretty much give you 3570k/4670k levels of performance and it would ensure minimum frame rate is the same as intels high end CPUs.

I actually think its a better investment than the FX 8350 (bot not 8320). Both FX 6300 and FX 8350 run on the same Piledriver cores. So theoretically for a game to run better on one vs the other, it would have to be programmed to utilize 8 cores. I am not sure a game exists that uses 8 cores. I know Battlefield 3 and 4 utilize 6 cores...but thats about it.