Wanting to upgrade from a FX 6300 (GTX 760 GPU)

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Charlie Allombert

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Hello,

Current specs are (which was my first build thanks to the help of everyone on this forum):

  • FX 6300
    GTX 760
    Gigabyte 970-A motherboard
    No SSD
    8GB DDR3 1333mhz
    550w corsair psu

I have been given by a friend:

  • 1000w nzxt hale
    Gigabyte 990 FXA-UD5 motherboard
    1x 4GB RAM 1600MHz Corsair



  • I see on partpicker that I could go for FX-9370 or FX-8350, considering I might upgrade GPU later in the year, do I absolutely need to go for FX-9370 or is the FX-8350 enough?

    The 1000w PSU is overkill here, does it make a difference whether I use it or not?

    Can I add the extra RAM or will there be compatibility issue?

    Does an SSD improve gaming speeds or does it just improve general overall speeds (start up speeds and so on?)?

    When I went for this build, people here told me that the CPU was the weak link in the build and upgrading would allow me to play pretty much everything on ultra, does that still stand?


Thanks everyone!
 
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You would see almost no difference going to an 8350 from a 6300 in a gaming scenario. Few games make use of more than 4 main cores/threads.

Buy a decent CPU cooler like a NH D14 and overclock the 6300 on that 990FX board.
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well, i would get a 8320/8350 and a nice cooler to overclock, and that psu is a bit overkill, but wont be a problem. most likely, there will be a compatibility problem if you try to add the ram, but you could try lowering your 2 sticks to 1333 and the same cas latency, and see what happens, but you really dont need more than 8gb for gaming, if thats what you use it for.
 
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Let me tell you that your FX 6300 is a very good computer for games. Its a only gaming CPU. It was borned this way. I have an fx 6300 with gtx 760 and it works smoothly at 60 fps. SSD with now days HDDs dont make a huge diffrence. Consider buying Hyper X Kingston 8GB 2400 MHz (4x2) or max out your current ram your motherboard slots.

Also are you using water cooling or you have the factory cpu fan? If not consider buying a better cooling system and overclock that bad boy to 4,5GHz. Also just because you have a 1000W psu buy another gtx 760 and SLI them. Or just buy a new GPU for better performance. I hope i gave you the idea.
 
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The Fx 9370 is just an overclocked 8350. If you want to go with a 9370, just go with a 8350 and a decent cooler then overclock it yourself.

1000w, it would give you a lot more headroom for overclocking if you plan on having some form of an overclock, and upgrading as well if you plan on having multiple graphics cards.

Like everyone says, RAM wouldn't matter too much. 8gb is enough for gaming, You could add more if you want, but it really wouldn't make too much of a difference in performance at the same speed. More multitasking that's about it. If you upgrade to faster ram, there would be a performance increase, but its not worth just switching out whole kits for. Like someone above said, you could play around with the CAS timings if you want, but from my experience, be ready to revert via CMOS if needed.

SSD just improves loading times. It wouldn't help much getting better frame rates. It's good to have though for the boot up process.

As for the CPU being the bottleneck, in a game that is heavily single threaded and only uses 1-2 cores or something, then yes, it'd be a bit of a bottleneck. It's not much different in with the fx 8350 I believe. It's architecture. Intel cpus has a stronger single thread performance compared to the amd cpus which makes it better in gaming.

The fx 6300 can also bottleneck a higher end gpu easier because it is more for a budget build. All AMD cpus are more for budget situations compared to its intel counterparts. The fx 8350 shouldn't bottleneck any single GPU i'd imagine. Maybe the gtx 780Ti, but it's nothing a bit of an overclock wouldn't fix.
 
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Charlie Allombert

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I have a cheap Zalman CNPS5X as CPU cooler.

Would I actually see considerable improvement with the FX 8350?

For the extra 4GB of RAM, I just have it so I thought I might as well use it but I did think it might cause compatibility issues.

SSD doesn't really seem worth it, faster start up would be nice but they're still very pricey.

And yes, it's mostly for gaming but I also like to have 50 tabs open on Chrome, have photoshop and netbeans open at the same time without having the PC go in overdrive. I'm just hoping to max out Far Cry 4 / GTA 5 later this year.

I would go from:
  • FX 6300
    GTX 760
    Gigabyte 970-A motherboard
    No SSD
    8GB DDR3 1333mhz
    550w corsair psu
    Zalman CNPS5X

I have been given by a friend:
  • Gigabyte 990 FXA-UD5 motherboard
    FX 8350
    GTX 760
    No SSD
    8GB DDR3 1333mhz
    1000w nzxt hale
    Zalman CNPS5X


Thanks everyone for the answers!

Edit: Are you saying I don't really need it?
 
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You would see almost no difference going to an 8350 from a 6300 in a gaming scenario. Few games make use of more than 4 main cores/threads.

Buy a decent CPU cooler like a NH D14 and overclock the 6300 on that 990FX board.
 
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