FX-6300 + SSD or FX-8320??

Zectorr · Oct 10, 2015

Due to my budget i could only afford $600 AU to build my 5th Gaming PC.
I want to know if their is a big difference between a FX6300 and FX8320.
If i take the 6300 I could afford a 120Gb SSD but if i take the 8320 i wont be able to include an ssd. is it worth going for the 8320?

drkatz42 · Oct 10, 2015

You're going to get almost identical frame rates. I'd opt for Fx6300 + SSD.

Justin Millard · Oct 10, 2015

You can always buy the SSD later, and last time I checked a 120GB SSD from SanDisk only costs $68.
If anything I would recommend spending $30 more and getting the 8350. You will need that extra clock speed with an AMD CPU.

johnnyb105 · Oct 10, 2015

Stick with the 8320 because it is a lot better then the 6300 it has 8 cores vs 6 also the 8320 is the sweet spot as it will and can over clock very well I have mine setting at 4.4 ghz right now and no issues with it. The 6300 can bottleneck certain vid cards as well.

Zectorr · Oct 10, 2015

what gpu do you have ??

johnnyb105

Justin Millard · Oct 10, 2015

johnnyb105, would your CPU cooler fit inside their budget? That's the only reason I recommended spending the extra cash on the 8350, to not worry about a better cooler for overclocking the 8320 to 4.2-4.4Ghz.

johnnyb105 · Oct 10, 2015

I don't know what his system specs are The standard cooler will allow some overclock on the cpu its the same cooler that the 6300 has so in respect to that he would have to overclock the 6300 to extreme levels to even come close to the 8320 in terms of clock speeds when I was using the standard cooler I could get 4.1 or maybe 4.2 ghz before I upgraded so yes the 8320 is the same as a 8350 cpu more less just binned different and they have the same coolers from factory.

johnnyb105 · Oct 10, 2015

What are the op? specs anyone know? Because he did not mention them here...

Zectorr · Oct 10, 2015

johnnyb105 :

FX-6300 or FX-8320 (still dont know)
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P
Sapphire HD 7950 3GB
G.Skill RipJaws-X 8Gb
WD Blue 1TB HDD
DeepCool Tesseract Case
Corsair VS550 PSU

Justin Millard · Oct 10, 2015

"Due to my budget i could only afford $600 AU to build my 5th Gaming PC.
I want to know if their is a big difference between a FX6300 and FX8320.
If i take the 6300 I could afford a 120Gb SSD but if i take the 8320 i wont be able to include an ssd. is it worth going for the 8320?"

They have a $600 AUS budget. Which is about $425 USD.

Zectorr · Oct 10, 2015

I think im going to grab the 8320, Then Buy a SSD later on. it would be cheaper to buy an SSD later on than a whole new CPU.

Justin Millard · Oct 10, 2015

Good call. Are you confident overclocking?
Because I've seen a few people complain about the 8320 performance at stock speed, but an overclock up to 4.2Ghz seems to do the trick.

johnnyb105 · Oct 10, 2015

I have a r 290 in the pc with the 8320 I started off with a 7770 then a 7950 then a r 290 so yes the cpu can handle the higher end GPUS just fine. you watch www.newegg.com you can find ssd for as little as 49 bucks for a 120 so that's what I would do get the best cpu 8320 and add the ssd later. Good luck on your upgrades hope this helps.

johnnyb105 · Oct 10, 2015

The differance between a 8320 and 8350 is only 500 MHZ . 3.5 to 4.0 a stock cooler should allow this easy also the savings is 30 to 50 bucks depending where you buy at.

johnnyb105 · Oct 10, 2015

Zectorr :

R290 sapphaire now it was a 7770 then a 7950 Now the R 290

Zectorr · Oct 10, 2015

Justin Millard :

I Have overclocked CPU's in the past inlcuding Pentium G3258, Q6600 , Q6700, Q9550. thats all .
first time owning an AMD CPU

Zectorr · Oct 10, 2015

johnnyb105 :

Would you tell me your overclock settings on your CPU please? so i could get a good idea of what im doing . maybe tell me 3 different ghz like 4ghz/4.5ghz/4.7ghz

Justin Millard · Oct 10, 2015

Sweet. Well it looks like Johnny has your back for this one. Feel free to choose them for best answer

EDIT: Small steps with overclocking there. There is a huge gap between 4.0GHZ and 4.5GHZ. No guarantee your CPU will be comfortable at 4.5GHZ for its lifespan. They call it CPU lottery for a reason!
EDIT 2: I really appreciate that mate.

Zectorr · Oct 10, 2015

Justin Millard :

Thanks for your help too ! Cheers

johnnyb105 · Oct 10, 2015

You will have to do trial and error small steps as said above until the system is unstable then back it off a bit and run prime 95 and some other tests until stable there are a ton of guides on youtube and here at toms to get you started again enjoy your upgrades!

BFU2Miners · Oct 10, 2015

Hi, just passing by and asking, isn't there any chances to consider Intel a cheap 4th gen i5 maybe or a i3?

Justin Millard · Oct 12, 2015

8320 is cheaper than a i5 4460 in Australia, and it is far superior to a 4th gen i3.

Zectorr · Oct 13, 2015

BFU2Miners :

i3 4130 is cheap and good or an fx6300 would be good for battlefield 4 and witcher 3

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