gaborbarla :
lukemabey81 :
This is just a general question. Me and my friend have an FX 6300 we both have two different opinions. I say the processor is becoming a bit weak and that it is about time to upgrade or soon at least to a Ryzen. He says that it is fine and with a 1060 6gb you will be fine. Now with a decent graphics card he is not wrong. But I say the single core performance is slow, a little over five years old it's about time to upgrade. What do you guys think? Is it time to upgrade? And why do you thing that? Thanks!
You are right, the 6300 by now is getting more than just a bit weak. That is of course depending what you do with it.
Recently I forced myself to upgrade from a i7 3770 to a 7700k. I suspected that the 3770 is causing slow frames in PUBG for me. I had a GTX1080 and still suffered with slow frames and sometimes it was downright irritating especially during close quarters gunfights. With the 7700k the performance went up by about 50% but even more importantly those pesky Minimum frames (massive frame drops) have mostly disappeared. They still are present at times but 95% less.
This is a comparison of the AMD 6300 to my old i7 3770
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-3770-vs-AMD-FX-6300/1979vs1555
This is a comparison to the 7700k
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-vs-AMD-FX-6300/3647vs1555
and the new 8700k (which I would reccomend)
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-vs-AMD-FX-6300/3937vs1555
OR
If you dont want to pay so much you could go for the new i3 which has 4 Cores and 4 threads at 4Ghz.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-8350K-vs-AMD-FX-6300/3935vs1555
If you upgrade go with the new architecture. You can also consider Ryzen but I love the single core performance of the intel chips currently.
Gabor
except that PUBG is pretty unoptimized, so i don't think that would be a good example... even most high end system can still struggle in that game
u can feel the upgrade because your 3770 is a locked CPU, which is limiting the lifespan of your system pretty good [in terms of "futureproof], if u ask around, most people can testify that a i7 3770k [yes, the K version, the i7 3770 might be struggling much more since it's locked] can still be pretty decent even for today's gaming, OP's FX however, is an unlocked CPU to begin with, he can OC it lessen up the bottleneck and adding extra lifespan for his system, at least till the promised CPU [like the already announced Zen+ and Cannonlake] comes up
of course, i agree to a certain extend, FX are bad, especially for gaming, but with the upcoming architecture refresh like Zen+ and Cannonlake, and also depending on his other parts, the games he playes, settings he uses and such, FX might still be enough
and if he's willing to hold on with it for a while [which, imho, he should], he can at least wait till prices become stable, stock starting to flood the market [instead of the scarcity we're having right now], and also, better performance with the upcoming refreshes and such
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