Worth upgrading to fx 6300? or should i wait for the fx 8350

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Dmilovic

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Im looking to uprade my current CPU for gaming purposes. Im getting anywhere between 30-60 fps on BF4 High settings. Some areas drop to 30 and I was hoping a better CPU would help. The 6300 is 129.99 and the 8350 is 200+. I want know how much an increase in FPS im looking at if i get the 6300 and if i should save up and buy the 8350 later.

my current specs:
msi ms-7778 jasmine
8GB DDR3
AMD a10-5700 3.4 GHz
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 (Overclocked to 1100/1500)

I realize ill need a new motherboard as well so any suggestions on that are appreciated (under $100 if possible)
 
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I'd recommend the Asus M5A99FX Pro if you want to do some overclocking it is ~150 or so and is a nice reliable board without breaking the bank too much, I wouldn't go with anything less than a 990FX board with at least 6+2 power phases unless you just want a mild overclock. I've heard of some VRM issues with some of the Gigabyte boards (certain Revisions). The Asus board has a good VRM and a 6+2 power phase (you'd want 8+2 ideally but the Asus board does have a quality VRM).

You might be cutting your psu close, I'd say go for at least 650W if you want to overclock.
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the 8350 does better in BF4 and in my opinion would be worth the extra money. Games are starting to utilize 8 cores. The 6300 would perform significantly better than the a10. I'd say save up now and just get the 8350 instead of doing it in steps.
 
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So the extra 80 bucks is worth the performance boost between the 6300 and 8350 in your opinion?
 
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In my opinion it is. However, there is also a happy middle ground with the 8320. That one there would be about half way between the two in price (160-170 depending) and quite close to the 8350 in performance and overclocks well.

Either way I'd recommend going with the 8 core cpus, especially with games like BF4 and watch dogs (and surely others) starting to take advantage of 8 cores.

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Even if a game doesn't take advantage of 8 cores, the 8320 and 8350 have one more FPU than the 6300 which get used quite a bit in gaming.
 
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the 8320 definitely looks appealing. Can you recommend me a motherboard to run these FX cards? Also will my 500w EVGA 80plus bronze PSU be enough for this and my card? I want to overclock it. Im still under the 30 day return policy for it
 
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ethereal essence

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I'd recommend the Asus M5A99FX Pro if you want to do some overclocking it is ~150 or so and is a nice reliable board without breaking the bank too much, I wouldn't go with anything less than a 990FX board with at least 6+2 power phases unless you just want a mild overclock. I've heard of some VRM issues with some of the Gigabyte boards (certain Revisions). The Asus board has a good VRM and a 6+2 power phase (you'd want 8+2 ideally but the Asus board does have a quality VRM).

You might be cutting your psu close, I'd say go for at least 650W if you want to overclock.
 
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Dmilovic

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Thank you



Im definitely thinking of going with the 8320 with an OC. Any news on when mantle will become available?

 
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AFAIK mantle is a graphics API and wouldn't affect CPU performance.

Edit: at least not affect cpu performance in any direct way. It might off load some stuff from the CPU to the GPU but that is all I have heard of it.
 
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