I'm currently looking for a CPU for Christmas, but I am frankly uneducated on the subject. I like the AMD FX 4350 for the price, but I was told that it doesn't truly have 4 cores. I know that a quad core would for sure be the sweet spot, but which quad core processor I should pick is a much more complicated manner, looking for it to be anywhere from $65 to $95. Anything is helpful, thanks.
Is the AMD FX 4350 any good
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Seoulja615
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For your budget FX6300 is better http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113286. Are you building a new system? Replacing cpu on old? What are you using the pc for?
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$65-95 is a tough budget. For about $15 more you can get the i3 6100, which is far faster than either of those CPUs, but if you're stuck in that budget, I have a few thoughts:
Socket AM3+ received its last new CPU design in 2012, and FM2+ its last in 2014. The cores on FX, A series APUs and Athlon x4's are about half as fast as those in a modern Intel CPU. In most cases, AMD's quads (Athlon x4 on socket FM2+ and FX-43xx on AM3+) are similar in overall performance to Intel's Pentium G4400, which is ~$60 on Newegg. The G4400 is on Intel's socket 1151 which will receive 2 more years of new CPU designs, whereas AMD's sockets are already dead and discontinued. The Pentium draws somewhere around 1/2 to 1/3 the power of the AMD CPUs while performing similarly.
There are a few games that just don't run well on 2-thread CPUs, but there are other games that run far better on the Pentium than on the AMD chips due to its far superior single-threaded performance. Both Pentium and FX/x4 CPUs have some pretty serious compromises. The Core i3 6100 is the cheapest CPU that doesn't have any major weaknesses, if you can afford it.
Socket AM3+ received its last new CPU design in 2012, and FM2+ its last in 2014. The cores on FX, A series APUs and Athlon x4's are about half as fast as those in a modern Intel CPU. In most cases, AMD's quads (Athlon x4 on socket FM2+ and FX-43xx on AM3+) are similar in overall performance to Intel's Pentium G4400, which is ~$60 on Newegg. The G4400 is on Intel's socket 1151 which will receive 2 more years of new CPU designs, whereas AMD's sockets are already dead and discontinued. The Pentium draws somewhere around 1/2 to 1/3 the power of the AMD CPUs while performing similarly.
There are a few games that just don't run well on 2-thread CPUs, but there are other games that run far better on the Pentium than on the AMD chips due to its far superior single-threaded performance. Both Pentium and FX/x4 CPUs have some pretty serious compromises. The Core i3 6100 is the cheapest CPU that doesn't have any major weaknesses, if you can afford it.
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You cannot install an AMD CPU in that motherboard. AMD and Intel CPUs are not interchangeable. If you want to use the FX-4350, then you need to purchase a motherboard that has socket AM3+. The Intel Core 2 series uses socket LGA 775 (or simply socket 775). Replacing the motherboard also means you need to buy Windows because the license for your current Windows OS is directly tied to the Dell motherboard.
At best you can upgrade to an Intel Core 2 Quad series CPU assuming the motherboard will recognize them. Exactly what Dell desktop model do you have? That will help determine if a CPU upgrade is even possible.
You have an old PC and more current Intel CPUs are not compatible with it at all.
The best processor you can probably put in there (going based on your current processor being LGA775 socket) is the Q9650.
You will need to tell us the model number of the Dell or look on the motherboard for the model of the board so we can check which CPU's are compatible. If you are able to go to a Q9650 you can get them within your budget and it would be a decent upgrade.
You will need to tell us the model number of the Dell or look on the motherboard for the model of the board so we can check which CPU's are compatible. If you are able to go to a Q9650 you can get them within your budget and it would be a decent upgrade.
my computer is a dell optiplex 755, and if were to upgrade to the Intel Pentium G4520, it actually uses 15 less watts so that would not be an issue, but I am not sure what other compatibility issues I may run into, also, in case this was needed, my cpu currently is an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6550
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From $65-95 you cannot get much for a CPU. I feel its okay to get an FX 4350 since it gives far better multithreaded performance to the Celerons and Pentiums at the price with 4 real cores.
FX 4350 have real cores.
4 real cores-> Its not a shared 256 bit FPU as per Intel Standard but two 128 bit FPU which work together as one under heavy floating point workloads. That is why AMD did not get sued. But you just get really bad IPC (+10-20% more than the very old Phenom II, nearly two-thirds of Ivy Bridge)
But with overclocking you get comparable single thread performance. My FX 4350 which was at 4.7 GHz on air beat the stock i5 6400 at 2.7 GHz. Now that it is at 4.90 GHz it does not bottleneck an RX 480 and parallels stock i5 6500. But that is on a liquid cooler 280mm and 990FX board.
For $109 you should get an i3 6100
For $75 you can get a FX 4350
For $65 you can get a FX 4300
For gaming you dont need like 6 cores. Games use many cores, but not efficiently for all cores so you are better off with faster cores.
What's not to like about the FX 4350's unbeatable single thread performance and multi thread performance for the price? You cannot go wrong at $65/75. Except you cannot upgrade to better Intel chips in the future, and no DDR4, and then your only upgrade choice is a liquid cooler.
From $65-95 you cannot get much for a CPU. I feel its okay to get an FX 4350 since it gives far better multithreaded performance to the Celerons and Pentiums at the price with 4 real cores.
FX 4350 have real cores.
4 real cores-> Its not a shared 256 bit FPU as per Intel Standard but two 128 bit FPU which work together as one under heavy floating point workloads. That is why AMD did not get sued. But you just get really bad IPC (+10-20% more than the very old Phenom II, nearly two-thirds of Ivy Bridge)
But with overclocking you get comparable single thread performance. My FX 4350 which was at 4.7 GHz on air beat the stock i5 6400 at 2.7 GHz. Now that it is at 4.90 GHz it does not bottleneck an RX 480 and parallels stock i5 6500. But that is on a liquid cooler 280mm and 990FX board.
For $109 you should get an i3 6100
For $75 you can get a FX 4350
For $65 you can get a FX 4300
For gaming you dont need like 6 cores. Games use many cores, but not efficiently for all cores so you are better off with faster cores.
What's not to like about the FX 4350's unbeatable single thread performance and multi thread performance for the price? You cannot go wrong at $65/75. Except you cannot upgrade to better Intel chips in the future, and no DDR4, and then your only upgrade choice is a liquid cooler.
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