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SmallBlaze

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I'm probably going to buy the fx 6300, because i heard its good for gaming and its a low price. Are there any better AMD CPUs at that price range? Or did i pick out the best. (My motherboard is an am3+ socket) Also would this be a good combo with the AMD Radeon HD 7870? Thanks
 
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Excellent choice. One of the best value cpus out there if you ask me. I used to own one of these... upgraded to a 8350... and the difference is minimal (average gamer & for office). Buy it and don't look back!!!
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Excellent choice. One of the best value cpus out there if you ask me. I used to own one of these... upgraded to a 8350... and the difference is minimal (average gamer & for office). Buy it and don't look back!!!
 
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SmallBlaze

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Yay! Also, will it bottleneck my HD 7870?

 
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Depends on how much cpu power the game will need. But I would say you are in the safe zone. I've seen many pcs using this exact combo.
 
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SmallBlaze

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ok thanks. Ive heard it's easy to overclock as well so that's good
 
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I went with one of the microcenter amd bundles a few months back, http://www.microcenter.com/site/products/amd_bundles.as...

I went with the fx6300 and the gigabyte motherboard combo.
I overclocked it extremely easily and used the 39.99$ zalman cnps10x performa cpu cooler.
I have it running at 4.7ghz 24/7, this is with Cool and Quiet enabled so it throttles itself from 1.4ghz -4.7ghz on demand.
Temperatures are around mid 40's under load and 30 idle.
This is with a voltage bump of course to sustain the 4.7ghz.

I had the cooler master 212 and I would strongly recommend not touching it.
I thought it was a decent cooler until i bought this Zalman; it is almost the same price but it completely blows the coolermaster away. You should def. go with it if you are even half serious about overclocking.
 
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SmallBlaze

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ok ill look into it
 
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I prefer an i3 over a FX-6300 for much better single core performance. Most games don't require more than 2 threads so the i3 will perform better for those. Of games that require more the i3's hyperthreading handles them well enough so that the fx-6300 has only a marginal advantage. Plus if you're upgrading with an AM3+ motherboard, your only option is a FX-8300 which doesn't give much of a performance boost. FX-9xxx are really expensive. If you go with the i3, the option to upgrade to an i5 is cheap and offers a major boost in gaming performance.

i3 is a clear winner to me unless you are running multi-threaded applications instead of gaming and you don't intend to upgrade.
 
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OP already has an am3+ motherboard and said he wanted to overclock; the i3 and fx6300 are close but once you add even a modest overclock the amd wins. You can put the system together and set the multiplier up to hit 4ghz without even adding voltage and you are already ahead of the i3.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/699?vs=677

You see here how even stock it is ahead of the i3 in diablo 3 and skyrim.
You can run a system like this for years and then whenever it does become time to upgrade just buy whatever the next intel/amd cycle is. With intels rate of releasing processors it would be a waste to buy a new intel mobo and an i3 now when we know this time next year intel will be releasing another socket anyway.
 
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There are a few older game engines that can favour the stronger individual threads of the i3 . Most are DX9

Everyone else is better with the FX 6300 . The newer , graphically intensive game engines all multithread very well . BF3 , Crysis 3 etc are the future so buying an i3 makes no sense
It makes even less sense when you consider socket 1155 is already obsolete

and that there is another entire generation of cpu's coming from AMD that will drop straight in to an AM3+ motherboard

 
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