Which CPU for RX 470

TomasPistonCraft

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I currently have:

AMD A8 6600k 4.2GHz

8GB DDR3 Ram 1666MHz

I need to find the best CPU that will not bottleneck for my new graphics card - RX 470

I want to try and spend about £150 (190$)

I preferably want anything, quad core or up. This means the i3 6100 is out of the question mainly because I would like to stream and record games so dual core is not sufficient.

I was looking at between the FX 6300 and the FX 8350 but also not sure about Intel CPU's.

Any help is appreciated :)

Tom.
 
The FX-8350 is only about equivalent to an i3 6100 in games (at stock), so you can probably rule of the FX-6300. You really get what you pay for right now. The i3 has about as much total multithreaded performance as an FX-6350 and near as much as a low-end FX-8, with twice the single-threaded performance.
 
The FX series are a poor choice. They are 4-5 years old now and are proving very weak against even a i3 6100. You really need to switch to Intel or wait for AMD Ryzen but both will need a new motherboard & RAM.

Although dual core the i3 6100 has 4 threads so behaves a little like a 4 core. The benchmarks speak for themselves.
 

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Ok, thanks guys, I have been looking on cpuboss.com at some specs and your right, the i3 6100 has really good single core performance compared to the 8350 and the 8350 is 4 years old now compared to the new-ish skylake cpu's. I have been following about AMD Zen and am really curious about it, I saaw online they will be making a cpu for around $200 (£160) but then again the prices are rumored, hopefully right though