AMD FX-6300 vs AMD FX-4350?

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Hello I'm debating whether which one I should buy, the AMD FX 6300 or the AMD FX 4350 i'm not really a heavy gamer but do play games such as Guildwars 2, CSGO and League of Legends so my main question is which one would be better for gaming, but I don't plan on overclocking the processor either because I have no idea how too, I'm just a basic guy wanting to know which is better because they're both around the same price of what I want to spend.
 
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If both are in your budget then buy the 6300 .


Just remember that you should be using a motherboard with a 970 or 990 chipset . There are boards with 760G chip sets and these basically suck
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Please do not give out misinformation.
The 4350 ia not a true 4 core processor.
It has 2 modules. Each module has one full core and one partial core. NOT 2 full cores.
The 4350 has 2 cores and 2 partial cores@4.2ghz and 2x 2MB L2 cache
The 6300 has 3 core and 3 partial cores@3.5ghz (boost to 4.1ghz) and3x 2MB L2 cache and 8MB L3 cache.
The 6300 is a much better processor.



 
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Sorry about that, thanks for the info, my bad.
 
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Not a problem.
Millions of people readthis site and take what they read here as fact.
If we allow bad information in the forums it gets repeated as fact time and time again.
The 6300 is on average 20% faster than the 4350.
In single threaded programs the 4350 is 100mhz faster 4.2 vs 4.1 ghz.
But in threaded programs the 6300 has more resources and pulls ahead by about 28- 30%.
Software and games are becoming more threaded slowly ,so the 6300 is a better choice if the price is right.

 
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In the games that he's listed, neither one of them take advantage of multiple cores. So in that essence, the 4350 is a better choice. Granted, the difference in performance isn't enough for me to actually recommend it over the 6300 however.

Buy the 6300, down the road fiddle with overclocking after buying a cheap, decent cooler. Super simple and easy, with no real risk to your pc if you just go for a simple overclock changing the multiplier. Start messing around with voltages and that's different, but for a multiplier change you'll get 300mhz+ easy with zero risk.
 
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You really do not understand the architecture of FX processors so your comments are actually worse than the one you criticize.
Each module has two integer cores and two FPU coures which can combine and work as one . The cores share a front end. fetch,decode , cache etc


As for which of the two processors I would choose it would depend on whether or not I was adding an aftermarket cooler and/or overclocking . If you are doing those things then the 6300 is about 50% more powerful over all and it should be your choice . If you wont alter clock speeds then its a coin toss with the 4350 being the better choice for older games that wont use all the cores available
 
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Well honeslt you can play to OC a CPU easily but you know....do not push it too much and buy an aftermarket cooler. I would buy one even if I don't plan to OC to be honest even thoughthe stock one will be capable to cool it at stock voltage and Mhz. I have an FX 6350 , pretty much the same price as the 6300. The 6350 is clocked at 3.9 Mhz which is frankly better than the 6300. I have managed to get it to 4.2Mhz with the stock voltage and it is stable even when gaming CPU intensive games like ARMA 3. In the future I am planning to rise the voltage and hope to get my CPU at a stable 4.5-4.6 Mhz.
 
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For older single core games the 6300 will Boost to 4.1 compared to the 4350s 4.2.
Each module,what everyone calls 2 cores, has2 Integer units and 1 Floating point unit which the cores share.
They also share the first stages of the pipeline, Fetch, decode and L1Cache, then they split into 2 different pipelines.
So no they are not 2 complete cores, as they share many resources.

Block diagram from wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_%28microarchitecture%29#/media/File:AMD_Bulldozer_block_diagram_%28CPU_core_bloack%29.PNG

 
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You are almost there

The fp unit is 2 x 128 bit or i x 256 bit . It can function as either a single FP unit or as two less powerful FP units
The only shared resources are , as I said earlier, the front end
 
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so i should go with the 6300?
 
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If both are in your budget then buy the 6300 .


Just remember that you should be using a motherboard with a 970 or 990 chipset . There are boards with 760G chip sets and these basically suck
 
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