5800K to FX-6300?

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I've scrolled through several posts with this exact question, but so many posts come up with so many different answers. A lot of people saying it's absolutely not worth it, and there won't be much of a performance increase, many say the opposite.

I use an R9 280. For this upgrade, it would run me about $250. Is the $250 dollars worth the performance increase? Or is there something else I should use it for?
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Not worth it one bit. The 5800k is faster in single threaded performance, and even not the 6300 is very marginally quicker overall and not worth the money/time to do the change.

For $250 you could get yourself an Intel setup thats far more bang for your buck if you're itching to do an upgrade like that. And I say that as an AMD guy.
 
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Thanks for the replies!

So id be better off with the 4460 over the 6300? That is including the fact that I won't be overclocking? A 5800K upgraded to 4460 + new mobo is more worth the money?
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Yes definitely its single core performance is faster which is what most games rely on. And its nearly identical in multi core.
 
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Your 5800k is perfectly capable of running a r9 280.
I don't think the 6300 or the i5 4460 are going to benefit you massively at all (not to the tune of $250 anyway).
You ain't going to see a massive performance increase - id personally run what you have & hold onto your money a while mate
 
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As before, you won't be upgrading to an fx 6300 anymore than you would an 8350 since both are am3+ and your current apu is fm2+. So long as you're spending on a new mobo+cpu, it's pointless to dump that money into the 6300 and have to overclock it when for roughly the same price (a little more) you can go with an i5 4460. I mentioned this in your other post since you were considering the 8320/8350 and I mentioned the comparison with an 8320 since it's only about $10-20 more than the fx 6300.

My concern is this, you upgrade from an apu that isn't working well for you to an fx and have to change the mobo anyway. Say you upgrade to an fx 6300. Then in short time when it's not enough, you're looking for something else - so what are your options? You can try adding cores with an fx 8xxx series and spend yet again on another cpu. This puts you in a perpetual upgrade cycle nickel and dime-ing you to death and in the end you've invested more than you would have just getting an i5 system to begin with. If an fx 9590 won't outperform an i5 in games, neither will an fx 8350, 8320, 6350, 6300..

If you factor the cost of a 970 mobo (being fair, not junk but not super expensive either), cpu cooler, 6300 (because it's cheap), 8320 (because it too is cheap and the next best thing to try and squeeze more performance above the 6300) - you're looking at a total cost of $340. Add about $80 to that and you could have an i7 4790k system and save the time/effort of all the hardware swapping. And those aren't looking at the 6350 or 8350, that's going the 'cheap' route.
 
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I already told the op that in their other thread here. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2736360/lowish-fps-hardware-improve.html

Pointed out that the upgrade would be in wow, that crysis 3 is gpu bound and the low fps won't get much better without an expensive card well outside of their budget if they're trying to stay around $200-250. A card to push closer to 50-60fps is going to be in the $350-550 range. It's split between a cpu heavy and gpu heavy game, so no performance won't jump drastically in both. If looking to upgrade their cpu there's not much to go with on fm2+ and really not much on the am3+ worth upgrading to either for the cost of mobo/cpu upgrades.
 
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Whooosh! there you go!



No need to OC the i5, an AMD FX chip needs to be OC'd to match a stock clocked Haswell.
 
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