Upgrade from AMD FX-6300 to AMD FX-8370 worth it?

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Chad Criswell

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I have an ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard with an AMD FX-6300 six core, 3.50Ghz processor in it. A month or so ago my water cooler started going bad and the system overheated a few times (thermal shut down) before I could get the cooler replaced. Now, occasionally, the whole machine freezes (no blue screen, just mouse freezes, etc.) at random times and even when not doing processor intensive tasks but does not shut down any more.

I am guessing that the thermal issues damaged the CPU and am thinking of replacing it. I was looking at the FX-8370 8 core 4.3Ghz processor but want to know if this would be a worthwhile upgrade? Is there enough of a boost there that I would notice?

Should I just get a new mobo at the same time or would it be worth it just to upgrade the processor and see if that fixes the problem?
 
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I've heard of so many problems with water cooling. A good copper-heat-pipe cooler is usually be better in so many ways. This is the best budget cooler:

$30 https://www.ebay.com/itm/be-quiet-PURE-ROCK-SLIM-CPU-Cooler-120W-TDP-BK008/232468884853
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=413uogBNB7Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtSccaobSCI

You can get the fx6300 & fx83xx on Ebay. It's your personal choice. These processors automatically overclock any core that reaches 100%. Too many people have damaged their processors by overclocking them. You could be the next so I don't advise overclocking.

DX12 & Vulkan games will make better use of 6 cores than DX11. So those processors will last for a long while if you game and much longer if you don't.
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you'll see little difference depending on what you are doing. you'd be adding 2 cores but they would still be weak. a game or similar only using 2/4 threads won't use the extra ones anyway. you likely had the 6300 overclocked fairly well which would negate any speed boost you'd get with the stock clocks of the 8370.

if you must replace only th ecpu, then look for the cheapest you can get between the 6300 and the 8*** series and go with that one. if you got the money, then a full upgrade to the newer and much faster gen cpu's would be the way to go for sure. an i3/ryzen 3 on a cheap mobo with ddr4 ram would be night and day better than anything you could drop onto your current set-up.
 
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I've heard of so many problems with water cooling. A good copper-heat-pipe cooler is usually be better in so many ways. This is the best budget cooler:

$30 https://www.ebay.com/itm/be-quiet-PURE-ROCK-SLIM-CPU-Cooler-120W-TDP-BK008/232468884853
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=413uogBNB7Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtSccaobSCI

You can get the fx6300 & fx83xx on Ebay. It's your personal choice. These processors automatically overclock any core that reaches 100%. Too many people have damaged their processors by overclocking them. You could be the next so I don't advise overclocking.

DX12 & Vulkan games will make better use of 6 cores than DX11. So those processors will last for a long while if you game and much longer if you don't.
 
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