Bulldozer FX 6100

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gazum123

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I Currently have the following system.

Gigabyte 970-UM3
Bulldozer FX 6100
16GB Kingston Hyper 1600
OCZ 120GB SSD
Asus 660 Direct CU
Corsair Build Series 750W PSU


Just Wondering if its worth upgrading the CPU Either AMD or Moving towards Intel on a i5 ?
 
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bemused_fred

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It's well worth upgrading to an I5 if you want to game. What budget are you on? You'll need to change your motherboard, but all your other components canstay the same.
 
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Cost-wise I believe getting an FX-8350 would be a wise move on your part.
Like this you'd take full advantage of your motherboard's capability and support.
The FX-8350 and the i5 -3570K trade blows and the more threaded a workload is , the more favored the FX-8350 will be.
I believe it would make sense for you to upgrade to an 8350 - not to say you would definitely feel the upgrade starting right form Windows and getting to gaming and especially highly-threaded workloads like video rendering and mega-tasking.

But if I were you, I'd wait a few months for the Steamroller FX CPUs to come out (at the end of the year / Q1 2K14) and get those as they will improve performance even more AND will still be based on the AM3+ socket.
 
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What? It all depends on the budget. If they had a reasonable low budget, weren't planning on upgrading their graphics card anytime soon, and were happy with a bit of CPU bottleneck, then having an FX would be fine.

However, if they wanted a significant CPU performance increase in low-threaded apps and (crucially) GAMES, and planned to make significant upgrades to their graphics card in the future, then Intel would be a much better option.

 
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On top of that, he has a 970 board. There has been lots of issues with Gigabyte 970 boards trying to run 83xx CPUs even with the latest BIOS. There was actually a thread on here not too long ago where a guy had a 970 Gigabyte motherboard and bought a 83xx. It was running, but only 3 cores were detected and CPU-z read it as a 8150. And of course the performance was terrible because the CPU was all wonky. Even after updating the BIOS everything was detected properly but there were some troubles with poor performance and strange CPU behaviour. I wouldn't get a 8350 for a Gigabyte 970 board. But I wouldn't get a 8150 either because that thing really slacks in games. I say just save up for a haswell build.
 
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I've done multiple builds with the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ with no issue (assuming that is what the OP actually owns since a non-existent *UM3* was listed in his specs).



 
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Notice how the BF3 bench is for single player. Multiplayer is much more CPU intensive and the 6100 will stutter and fall behind here and there. Unfortunately Crysis 3 doesn't mention whether it's singleplayer or multiplayer. It probably is singleplayer though because multiplayer does give different results where singleplayer is consistent.

EDIT: also notice that the 8350, AMDs best gaming CPU still falls behind. It's still behind the 3550 which is the same price.
 
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