AMD FX Selection Help?

[Greg Gorman-1304225]

I'm having a hard time deciding between three computers with FX Processors. The prices are within 200 dollars apart but is it worth getting the higher spec. FX? They all have relative specs besides the CPU.
The FX-8120 Desktop - 650
The FX-6300 Desktop - 770
The FX-8350 Desktop - 820
(All In USD)
Would the extra money be worth it for the 8350? Or should I go with the lower one? I kinda am tempted to go with the 8120 because I would have alot left to actually go get a monitor (Mine is terrible) and a nice mouse. But I fear it will bottleneck the Radeon 7950. But anyways, if you can help, Thanks!

 

[elemein]

What are your uses for this computer? An 8120 usually doesnt fit most jobs that consumers want; such as rendering, media uses or gaming. They are more oriented towards servers and things that heavily use a large, divided cache along with heavy FPU use.

The 6300 and 8350 are usually better options. Nonetheless, what're yer uses?

 

[Greg Gorman-1304225]

What are your uses for this computer? An 8120 usually doesnt fit most jobs that consumers want; such as rendering, media uses or gaming. They are more oriented towards servers and things that heavily use a large, divided cache along with heavy FPU use.

The 6300 and 8350 are usually better options. Nonetheless, what're yer uses?

I usually play less intense games such as Terraria, Minecraft, and Happywheels. But now that I'm getting a 7950 I want to play some Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3. But if I'm going to spend all this money, I want one that won't bottleneck my GPU and will be very good but at a cheaper price. The Lower two fit budget very well and let me get a decent mouse, and the FX-8350 doesn't allow me to get accessories. Another good advantage with the 8120 is I actually found a way to get a 60 Dollar Headset, 40 Dollar mouse, and 8 GB of Vengeance ram. The 6300 one has the default ram, no headset, but it still gets the same mouse I would get with the 8120.
(EDIT) I also don't really edit videos or anything of that sort.. The only type of thing familiar to that which I use is Microsoft Word.

 

[elemein]

Dont go with the 8350 if you cannot get 8 GB of RAM of atleast 1333 MHz speed. Vengeance doesnt really matter that much.

As you can see from these comparative benchmarks: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/434?vs=699

The 6300 pulls ahead quite a bit from the 8150 (an overclocked version of the 8120; so the 8120 is even WORSE) in most cases unless the situation is heavily threaded.

I personally suggest going with the 6300 and 8 GB of RAM.

 

[ihog]

I'd recommend building your own computer.

 

[Greg Gorman-1304225]

Dont go with the 8350 if you cannot get 8 GB of RAM of atleast 1333 MHz speed. Vengeance doesnt really matter that much.

As you can see from these comparative benchmarks: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/434?vs=699

The 6300 pulls ahead quite a bit from the 8150 (an overclocked version of the 8120; so the 8120 is even WORSE) in most cases unless the situation is heavily threaded.

I personally suggest going with the 6300 and 8 GB of RAM.

Okay, thankyou! The FX-6300 one actually has 16 GB of ram installed luckily!

 

[Greg Gorman-1304225]

Can this computer easily run BF3 on multiplayer with Ultra settings right? And low shadows and no AA :3 (7950 3 GB)

 

[elemein]

Can this computer easily run BF3 on multiplayer with Ultra settings right? And low shadows and no AA :3 (7950 3 GB)

Yes, a 6300 + 7950 will happily max out BF3.

However, if you can drop 16GB RAM down to 8GB of RAM and spend that money elsewhere, that will be a better buy. You do not need 16 GB of RAM; 8 GB is VERY sufficient.

 

[Greg Gorman-1304225]

Can this computer easily run BF3 on multiplayer with Ultra settings right? And low shadows and no AA :3 (7950 3 GB)

Yes, a 6300 + 7950 will happily max out BF3.

However, if you can drop 16GB RAM down to 8GB of RAM and spend that money elsewhere, that will be a better buy. You do not need 16 GB of RAM; 8 GB is VERY sufficient.

Yes, I would definitely get the 8 GB Of ram. It's just a prebuilt so you can't do anything about it...