So I just went out and bought the 8gb rx 480, so far loving it even coming from an r9 380. And it also brought other gifts, better over clocking room for my CPU. Didn't realize how hot the 380 gets and boy does it suck up some juice, especially when overclocked and I got that thing to 1100/1650. I was able to get my cpu to a stable 5.063 @1.41 volts (luckily) so my question is with my fx 6300 overclocked to 5.063 is it worthwhile to attempt to upgrade to the i3 6100?
Should I upgrade fx 6300?
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Petar Raickovic
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if u are ok with your cpu right now why u change it ? wait for zen at end of the year and then see if u wanna go intel or AMD ... For i3 6100 u need to change Mobo + ram memory Only DDR 4 is supported..
Petar Raickovic
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Yes but if u have good gpu it wont work good with faster memory the skylake flys
you have bunch of videos on youtube
genthug
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DDR3 isn't supported, DDR3L is supported. Skylake is eventually damaged by continual use with DDR3 modules.
That being said--don't move to an i3. Move to an i5, if anything. i3s at this point are a sideways step to the 6xxx series FX processors, and where you've got yours overclocked so heavily you should be fine with what you have unless you're seeing massive bottlenecks. If you're really seeing bottlenecks that bad... just move to an 8xxx series instead of an i3. If you're willing to put up the money for it, get a good overclocking board and an i5/i7. i3 would be useless at this point, though.
That being said--don't move to an i3. Move to an i5, if anything. i3s at this point are a sideways step to the 6xxx series FX processors, and where you've got yours overclocked so heavily you should be fine with what you have unless you're seeing massive bottlenecks. If you're really seeing bottlenecks that bad... just move to an 8xxx series instead of an i3. If you're willing to put up the money for it, get a good overclocking board and an i5/i7. i3 would be useless at this point, though.
Thanks for all the suggestions guys, kinda what I was expecting due to my overclock. Just seen a lot of videos showing i3 beating fx 6300 even at 4.5 ghz. Passmark shows i3 with above 2000 single core performance and when i ran my test at 5.0 i got a little over 1800, that was my man concern for questioning the "upgrade"
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Well, yes, for single core Intel wins. But you're comparing a dual core hyper threaded cpu to a hex core cpu. Can't take those four extra cores out of account. For poorly threaded games then the i3 will ruin the 6300. But with the extra 4 cores running, not so much.
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Sure. The fx6300 is intrinsically just a 8320 minus 2 cores and some lcache although it has more lcache per core. If it'll handle prolonged use at 5GHz, it'll do fine in anything except heavy multi core use where an 8 series wins by default.
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the i3 would be a insignificant upgrade..i agree wait for zen..I am in the same boat. i have the 4x-480 with the 6300 only oc'd to 4.5 tho..but im just waiting for the am4 socket mother board then im going to crossfire the two rx-480s..depending on your motherboard if u upgraded to an i3 you would have to change sockets on motherboard..for a small upgrade..zen or go with a i5-6600k
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