Keeping the FX4100 or getting a FX6300?

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I will be getting a new gpu, a R9 280X.

At the moment, this is just a small effort to future proof a little, since my old gpu is not cutting it anymore.

Online, i read a little about the FX4100, and it seemed that people consider it to be a bottleneck for the 280X, and recommend a FX6300 instead.

Is this correct?

When i look at benchmarks between the two, the difference seem insignificant, so im sure that i am missing something.

Im afraid that realistically, the FX6300 will be one of the few upgrades i will have the money to buy for quite some time. So i would rather ask you experts first!

 
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yup 6300 is much better, faster core by about 14% each, higher clock speed, more overclocking headroom and easier to overclock stable, 2 more cores, it is defenetly a worthy upgrade you will defenetly feel the difference in games and honestly you need it for that GPU you will get otherwise you will feel the CPU bottleneck in just about every games that need some serious CPU computing power...

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https://www.google.se/search?q=fx-6300+fx-4100+tomshardware&rlz=1C1KMZB_enSE518SE518&oq=fx-6300+fx-4100+tomshardware&aqs=chrome..69i57.7512j0j8&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8


I found an article on Tom's. The test is overclocking Fx-6350 and Fx-4350. The FX-4350 is slightly faster than the FX4100. When overclocking there shouldn't really be a difference between FX-6300 and FX-6350 or between FX-4350 and FX-4300. Although the FX-xx50 version means it comes at a higher factory clockspeed, and it's a "higher binning" so could have more headroom for overclocking.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/piledriver-k10-cpu-overclocking,3584-10.html

The 6350 performs twice as good in Crysis 3. 4350 only gets a 25fps minimum. 6350 gets around 50 min fps.

Basically the 4100 has 4 cores and the 6300 has 6 cores. So in games that are more CPU intensive and are coded for running parallel threads better there will be big differences. So in Crysis 3 FX-6300 runs much better. But in Starcraft 2 there's no noticable difference.
 
Like others have pointed out, the 63XX is a worthy upgrade option. In some games you may not see a performance increase, but in others you will, and the CPU will have longevity.

Another alternative, for maximum longevity, is to keep an eye out for when the FX-8320 goes on sale. Sometimes you can catch it for as low as $130 bucks, which is amazing.
 

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yup 6300 is much better, faster core by about 14% each, higher clock speed, more overclocking headroom and easier to overclock stable, 2 more cores, it is defenetly a worthy upgrade you will defenetly feel the difference in games and honestly you need it for that GPU you will get otherwise you will feel the CPU bottleneck in just about every games that need some serious CPU computing power...
 
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