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July 1, 2014 2:09:37 AM

Hello,

Im in a bit of a loop at the moment. I was looking to upgrade my cpu as ive heard it's terriable and do a lot of youtube recording / starting to stream. Question is ive heard from some people the fx 8350 is a great cpu and others say it's terriable and Im not sure what kind of boost an upgrade will give me.

My Spec's are.

FX- 6100 @ 4.0GHz
Hyper Evo 212
16GB DDR3 Kingston Hyper Blue Ram 1600mhz
Gigabyte ga-970a-ud3 rev 1.0
Corsair CX 750w Build Series PSU
Asus 660


My biggest question is will a cpu upgrade give me a noticable performance boost on games in general / streaming and recording. Ive heard the fx 8350 doesn't like a lot of MB's so is mine fine with it ? Is there something better to upgrade to ? I could spend around £350 - £400 as a max push if the perfomance increase for the things I do increases a noticeable amount.

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July 1, 2014 2:20:24 AM

the 8320 is octa core. You don't need that many cores. A 4 core or 6 core is enough. Im running bf4 at ultra with my dual core. I'd recommend the Amd FX-6350. Its an hexa core processor clocked in at about 3.9 Ghz. If you really want to upgrade, the 6300 would be a good start.
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July 1, 2014 2:26:26 AM

FX-8320 or FX-8350 is a upgrade to that FX-6100, especially in multithreaded environments. Your mobo has 8+2 phase power so you should be fine and even some overclocking of the FX-8350 is possible. The FX-8350 is the best AMD CPU right now. If you want even more CPU power, then you will have to look at intel and get a new mobo too and that will cost at least 300 altogether. You can find FX-8350 for maybe 120-150 euros now.

I myself would go with the FX-8350 or 8320, they are basically the same chip, just overclock the 8320 and you will get 8350 levels.
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July 1, 2014 2:27:00 AM

Streaming and encoding can use the 8 core processors .
Graphically intensive game engines can too , but older ones mostly not

Buy an FX8320 and overclock it . Cheap performance upgrade

Are the AMD chips "terrible"? No . The total integer math ability of an FX8320 is well ahead of an intel i5 2500K/3570K. Problem though is most applications cant use all those threads
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July 1, 2014 2:29:04 AM

William Norberg said:
the 8320 is octa core. You don't need that many cores. A 4 core or 6 core is enough. Im running bf4 at ultra with my dual core. I'd recommend the Amd FX-6350. Its an hexa core processor clocked in at about 3.9 Ghz. If you really want to upgrade, the 6300 would be a good start.


He has already 6100 at 4,0ghz that is basically the same as 6300. So not worth it. Just go with FX-8350 or switch to intel. No use getting almost the exact same processor.

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July 1, 2014 2:33:50 AM

There will be a performance boost from a fx6100 to 8320.

In terms of the necessity of the 8 core cpu, it comes down to application. What do you plan on doing with the system? If you're just planning on gaming, and you want a cpu that's overclockable and what not. It'll most like be needing a better motherboard. At least a Gigabyte 970 UD3P or ASUS m5a97 r2.0 (non LE).

A better option with that upgrade budget would be to go with an i5 if you're strictly gaming. If you don't plan on overclocking a non k version i5 + H87/H97 motherboard will be much less than the specified budget.

If you want an overclockable i5 build, it'll still fit within your budget.

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If you're planning on doing a lot of video editing, photoshopping, 3d rendering and what not, then go with the fx8350.

But strictly gaming, you'll notice more of a performance difference switching to intel.
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July 1, 2014 6:22:15 AM

Intresting,

I know Intel is "better" for gaming however I am looking more towards gaming as well as streaming and also video recording. The biggest thing for me is would the £130 upgrade be worth it from the FX 6100 to the 8350 ? Is there an Intel CPU that offeres the same kind of rendering / multitasking performance ? There are lots of things around showing the 8350 as a very good cpu for a lot of tasks and only really single thread programs intel wins on.
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July 1, 2014 12:09:22 PM

Streaming would benefit from the extra cores/threads.

As for an intel cpu, an i7 would be one option, at least if you want to overclock. If you don't expect to overclock at all, you can go with a xeon e3 1230v3.
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July 1, 2014 2:17:33 PM

gazum123 said:
Intresting,

I know Intel is "better" for gaming however I am looking more towards gaming as well as streaming and also video recording. The biggest thing for me is would the £130 upgrade be worth it from the FX 6100 to the 8350 ? Is there an Intel CPU that offeres the same kind of rendering / multitasking performance ? There are lots of things around showing the 8350 as a very good cpu for a lot of tasks and only really single thread programs intel wins on.


At 1080p resolution the difference between an FX build and an i5 build is a couple of fps at most . NO it it not worth junking your entire build and getting an intel build .
Just buy an FX 8320 , and use AMD's overdrive software to bring it to 8350 speeds or above . The processors are identical parts just clocked differently
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