AMD FX-6300 Good Or not for gaming?

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Hii guys .....planning to buy new cpu for gaming ...in cheap price i dont have ....to money ....would you all suggest me good processor under RS 10000/- or under $155 ....and also suggest me good mother board ...under 5000rs ....and how to over clock FX-6300? Thankz all of u
 
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FX with a good mid-range GPU and it'll run those listed AAA titles at med-high settings without any issues.

BTW i've looked around and saw this combination of 6100 and gigabyte board for total 15k,thought it'd be good posting here. (?)
http://www.amazon.in/Intel-Motherboard-GA-H110M-DS2-DDR3-Processor/dp/B017IRVJT8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1454574939&sr=8-2&keywords=i3+6100

If this is your first gaming machine might consider those with a 8gb DDR4.

If not, FX 6300 and...
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In your situation probably i3 6100 and cheap board with DDR4 support(preferably) will be enough. There are benchmarks that prove the fact that new skylake i3 beat fx 6300 even in multithreaded games like GTA V. Still if you can get hold of i5 4460 will be the best for you because you really need 4 cores these days.
 
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As to the question about overclocking a FX6300, I have found the following video very good at explaining the process of overclocking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb1QDpRnOvw I have personally OC'd my FX6300 to 4.5GHz and played Skyrim for hours with no problems...totally stable. I presently have no need for to OC over 4.2GHz, and have never been anything but satisfied with the CPU. I hope you're able to reach as good a clockrate...and, I haven't upgraded my heatsink to water-cooling yet either. Good luck to you!
 
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For good overclocking you need decent board that can handle more stress. In budget systems usually this is not possible. Also you need aftermarket cooling. The stock barely handles even stock clock
 
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If i will go for i3 will it worth? Can i play games like far cry 4 or Ac unity on i3 ...fx 6300 has 6 cores but i3. Has only 2 ....please tell me will i be able to play games which required 4 core on i3? If yes i will buy it and also tell me that fx 6300 is good or not? I ji just want to purchase it for 2 year after that i am getting lappy so help me plz
 
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Do Note that OP's budget for CPU is 10000 INR, whereas i3 6100 is less than 10k INR.

Motherboard i suggested is also around his budget.

A FX 6300 and decent budget motherboard that has ability to overclock it will cost about same or MORE than skylake i3 and board.
 
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It proves nothing, the best in his budget is skylake i3. End of story.
 
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Yes it does. <edited>
1) FX-6300 is good enough to run games at decent framerates. Not as well as the Skylake i3, but it's absolutely fine to use an FX-6300 for modern games.
2) He can't afford the FX already. If the FX-6300 costs $100, and $50 for a AMD 760 motherboard, that's already out of his budget. It's already 10217 INR. An i3 costs $125, and H110 motherboard runs for about $60. It's another 2400 INR that OP will have to afford. I don't care about how much performance/dollar is at risk here. He called out the budget. I don't wish to raise it when money's hard to grab where he is.

As much as I would care about price/performance in other situations, this is not the case. The budget is low, and the i3 would tip the balance of the build. You still look to tip the balance. You are technically not looking for the benefit of the OP. Posting on this forum is looking to help people, not call out whatever you feel is right and stick it up someone's butt.
 
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You need to go to bed, OP had clearly mentioned that his budget is 10k for CPU only and an addition of 5k for motherboard, making total of 15k, skylake i3 and motherboard comes in 15k.

For FX 6300 you need a decent overclocking board, total of FX CPU and a good board is 15 or 16k. More than i3 skylake and board.

 
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Either one will run it.

http://www.geforce.com/games-applications/pc-games/far-cry-4/system-requirements

The system requirements actually call for an i5 or a phenom quad core. The i5 they require is actually an older one however. So the i3 should run it. The FX for sure will. Either way it's fine.

If Far Cry 4 is your main game, here's an older thread that should help you.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2386811/cry-amd-cpu.html

There's a review linked in there shows a benchmark. It looks like the FX 6350 is showing 65 fps on ultra. I think the stock speed of the 6350 is 3.9ghz. If you are overclocking the 6300 you should be able to get higher speeds than that. I have my 6300 at 4.3ghz, probably have some headroom left as well with an aftermarket cooler. So it's up to you. The i3 is a little better, but the 6300, especially when you overclock it, is not a bad choice on a budget.
 
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Yes, as said by ohiou,either CPU will run it, games are mostly GPU dependant, you want a good enough CPU that is able to handle high end GPUs that has the power to run games smoothly, thus in your budget of processor i.e 10k , an i3 6100 is the best one for a gaming machine at the moment. Sure FX 6300 costs 2k less, but with a good enough motherboard the whole will cost around same as i3 and GA-H110M board.

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~Good Luck
 
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To add to what the guy above said, the other good thing is with dx 12 coming, it may benefit the 6 core AMD cpus. The i3 should also benefit as well. Depending how the games are coded, whether or not the FX will benefit more than the i3 is to be seen. But the FX chips are said to be decent in multithreaded workloads. Unfortunately most games are more single core optimized. So time will tell if they make them more multithreaded. But even on single threaded stuff, the AMD will do the job, just a hair slower than intel. But overclocking helps with that a little. Still not quite as fast in single threaded, but makes it to where things are liveable.
 
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stepping in here before anything gets out of hand. made a few edits. lets keep things civil all.

an i3 skylake platform will be superior if the op can afford it but with a caveat:
the op would need ddr4 ram. if they are upgrading a system and already have ddr3 then buying ddr4 would push them way over budget.
if they already have ddr4 or if its a new build then it is worthwhile for the slight over-budget price.

if the budget is absolutely not flexible then there is not much choice but to go with the fx chip. prices will be cheaper, ddr3 can be reused if you are just upgrading and the fx chip is certainly capable of gaming. it is not as good as an i3 but may make sense depending on your circumstances.

 
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Sorry I have just found in market that i3 6100 will cost around 15k and for motherboard around 8k its out of my budget so what should i do wiff fx -6300 can run all thee games? Like fc4 AC unity Gta 5 Etc...i will be very grate ful if u all help me thanx in advance
 
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Yes it will, even though I have a fx6100 hexa-core that cpu will be able to do gaming and running apps on the side line.
Like most here have mentioned, most games are gpu dependent, if you told cod modern warfare 3 to use the cpu core for gaming..
Give it about 10-30 minutes and watch either amd or intel start stuttering or locking up trying to handle that.
If your budget is around 1000 - 2000k I could build you a intel skylake build.
Your only problem will be what do you want to use that computer for besides gaming.
If you do 3d work, programming, media work or anything else app intensive.
Your best bet is the higher end amd fx series, otherwise a core i5 quadcore would be a good starter.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117302
If you do your homework on amazon and any other shops, you could find that chip lightly used for under 150 bucks.

Let me know what you want to do.
 
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