Intel i3 4150 vs AMD FX 6300?

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Ashek Ajikumar

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My current rig -
CPU - core 2 duo 2.4 ghz
GPU - GTX 650 2 gb
RAM - 8 gb ram
I want to change to a CPU under $120. I wanted to go for i5 but they are above my budget. So I have to choose between i3 4150 and fx 6300. Is there a better one in the same price range
 
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In terms of upgrade possibilities in the future, the i3 is the better choice. In terms of which cpu is better on itself, the fx-6300 wins. It's up to you whether you want to leave an upgrade path open or not.

In my experience, most people don't upgrade their CPU regularly. By the time most people gather the money and/or motivation to upgrade to a CPU for the same socket that has a significant difference, the socket is outdated. The faster CPUs of that socket become hard to find and are thus overly expensive, and you might as well change to a new motherboard and CPU.

But it's up to you which path you take. If you're not planning on upgrading anytime soon, go for the FX-6300. If you are, go for the i3.
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FX 6300 will be good but you will have to change your motherboard
in both cases since those core 2 duos use the LGA 775 socket and i3s will use LGA 1155 or 1150
and fx 6300 will require totally different AM3+
FX 6300 has 6 physical and logical cores and higher cache memory so fx 6300 is better
 
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Depending on what you prefer there is advantages in each CPU. the FX 6300 is better for Heavily multi-threaded workloads, So shorter rendering times, or streaming while gaming and some other task. It is a work horse.
Intel i3 4150 offers a bit more practical uses and most would notice a difference in how applications would be a bit snappier and in a roster of titles would outperform the FX 6300 due to the Much better Single-threaded performance. Also a fast Dual Core is good for games. Most games still don't utilize 4 cores. Plus there is the HTT which helps multi-threaded applications. Not to mention it is just newer technology.
 
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i3, it uses the same socket as the more powerful i5 and i7 if you want to upgrade in the future and it uses hyper-threading which maximizes your usage of each individual core.
 
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In terms of upgrade possibilities in the future, the i3 is the better choice. In terms of which cpu is better on itself, the fx-6300 wins. It's up to you whether you want to leave an upgrade path open or not.

In my experience, most people don't upgrade their CPU regularly. By the time most people gather the money and/or motivation to upgrade to a CPU for the same socket that has a significant difference, the socket is outdated. The faster CPUs of that socket become hard to find and are thus overly expensive, and you might as well change to a new motherboard and CPU.

But it's up to you which path you take. If you're not planning on upgrading anytime soon, go for the FX-6300. If you are, go for the i3.
 
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Yea never buy into an upgrade path, always buy the performance characteristics you are looking for now for current needs.

Having said that, given current pricing, I might take the Athlon X4 860K over either of them. The 860K has the same execution throughput of an FX-6300 wrapped up into 4 cores. Current pricing has it well below the cost of either the 6300 or i3.
 
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