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What is the main purpose of this pc?
Gaming or production.

Starter implies that you have an interest in being able to upgrade in the future.

FX-6300 is fine for multithreaded production. not so good for gaming where fast cores are more important than many cores. If you anticipate a FX-8 upgrade, you probably want a better quality motherboard:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2383150/motherboard-tier-list.html

If your usage is for gaming, then a similarly priced i3-4170 and a lga1150 motherboard is likely to perform better now, and will be upgradeable to i5 or i7 in the future.
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What is the main purpose of this pc?
Gaming or production.

Starter implies that you have an interest in being able to upgrade in the future.

FX-6300 is fine for multithreaded production. not so good for gaming where fast cores are more important than many cores. If you anticipate a FX-8 upgrade, you probably want a better quality motherboard:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2383150/motherboard-tier-list.html

If your usage is for gaming, then a similarly priced i3-4170 and a lga1150 motherboard is likely to perform better now, and will be upgradeable to i5 or i7 in the future.
 
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