Worth Upgrading from a FX-6100 to a FX-8320?

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With CoD: AW coming out tomorrow, I want to get a little more performance out of my system.

I have a M5a88-V EVO mobo and a R9 280X Toxic-X 3 GB GPU.

My mobo will only support the 8320 or the 8350.

Is this worth an upgrade? I'm not willing to spend $400+ on an Intel CPU and new mobo yet. I just want more performance.
 
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The 8320 is better at single core. Multi core and for some reason is the best overclocking FX cpu. More people Hved OCed the 8320 to 5.0 Ghz than any other FX cpu. At least that is my experience.

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So, basically I have no option to upgrade unless I spend $200 for an i5 (at least) and get a new mobo for $120+?
 
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Yeah, I'd only upgrade to 8320 from your 6100 if you plan on doing more streaming/rendering type work. Otherwise, the two aren't too different. Alternative is to get a good cpu cooler and overclock your 6100.

 
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In general yes. Or do nothing, tweak the game settings for optimal experience and simply enjoy the system you have.

At least wait and see how CoD AW benchmarks across CPU's from AMD and Intel.

Look at the difference in Skyrim which is on average more demanding of per-core performance (put another way it can't make use of eight cores any more than six cores).
http://www.techspot.com/review/467-skyrim-performance/page7.html

Note the same 50FPS between the FX-8150 and FX-6120.

The biggest difference would be overclocking, but again CoD AW is a modern game so it may use your cores better.
 
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Yeah, I hear you. Deep down I know it's not worth it. I want to get a little more life out of this system but oh well.

Looks like I'll just have to wait until I can afford an i5 and new mobo.
 
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*Sledgehammer engine:
Just FYI, but the new CoD AW game is using the Sledgehammer in-house engine. Since it's likely being tweaked to the new consoles and is hopefully well threaded it MAY run fairly well on an FX-6100. Again, let's just wait and see particularly the "CPU scaling" numbers.

Let's not confuse Single-player and Multi-player scores as multi-player can often create a CPU bottleneck. We saw that in BF4 where Single Player benchmarks weren't showing any big bottleneck issues.

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The FX-6300 is only about 16% faster than the FX-6100 based on Passmark scores so that represents a theoretical best-case scenario. If there's any clock speed difference that will help as well, but how much that translates in-game is very difficult to say.

If you decide to get a better AMD CPU just know exactly what benefits you would actually get. For example, if you can expect an average 10% improvement in the games you play would it be worth it to get 55FPS instead of 50FPS? Or, would it make more sense to you to adjust the game settings slightly?
 
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The 8320 is better at single core. Multi core and for some reason is the best overclocking FX cpu. More people Hved OCed the 8320 to 5.0 Ghz than any other FX cpu. At least that is my experience.

 
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