6300 vs 965 BE

the 6300 is ten bucks off right now on neew egg and i was thinkning about gwtting it i dont really need the 8350 to much power for me and im pretty sure my 7870 would bottle neck it...

how much better is the 6300 than the 965 and does the 965 bottle neck the 7870? my cpu is 3.8ghz

ive heard that the 7870 and 6300 make a beautiful pair...

The 965 won't bottleneck a 7870, no.

But the 6300 will last you longer when games become optimized for more cores due to the new consoles. For 10 bucks, it's worth it.

ya i figure going with a more midrange CPU is better for me without a doubt it will still run everything on ultra as most games are gpu heavy anyways and like i said the 8350 is just too much for my syaystem i dont really need it anyway.. someone said i could prolly get another year out of my 965 but if i try now i could sell it for a bit and get and upgrade... idk the 6300 would be way more future proof

You kinda answered your own question :D 

The 965 is a great budget cpu, but it's getting really old now. DEFINITELY go with the FX-6300 if you can afford. I saw that CPU with 7850s putting out amazing fps in BF3 Multiplayer. It's the next generation of budget gaming, and AMD is very advanced in this segment.

The FX uses less power (ironically) while performing better on 6 cores/3 modules. Heavily threaded games (like GTA IV) benefit a lot from it. + Put 'em on an SSD.

GTA IV is anything but heavily threaded

and it dosent matter how old a cpu is, just how well it performs

Get the 6300. No one should by a 965 unless it under $80 then you have a fair deal. 

thanks all i more than likely will order one as soon as i find a buyer for my 965 i want about 80 but as always price is negotiable

not true

the 6300 is obviously a better CPU, but the 965 is a better choice than any of the bulldozer cpus and the 965 has better OC potential than the 4300

not bulldozer... its piledriver i believe

ya bulldozer is th like x2xx and x1xx series... to my knowledge all the x3xx chips are piledriver

As previously seen in other ported titles, unoptimized = heavily threaded, or just plain sh*tty most of the time.
One thing's sure, it would never run smooth from the get-go on an i3 (such as mine) so that's the reason I call it heavily threaded. Games like Battlefield 3 do not count IMO, as we would pretty much get the same results with my dualcore and his triple module. It's so awesomely optimized that extra core utilization is almost useless...

2. Age and performance walk hand-in-hand in the hardware industry. The Phenom II series did smoke the Core2Quad series, and did compete with the Lynnfield 1st gen Core i5-i7 series back in the day.

That was 2 generations ago. It's not rocket science, manifacture design shrunk, power consumption lowers, performance goes up. It's just plain technological evolution. Phenom IIs are old, outdated, being replaced by newer/ more efficient CPUs, such as the FX-6300.

that was what i was talking about

ex the 4100 and 4170

oh ok i thought you were reffering to the 6300 as being one anyways its 129 on amazon and i get free 2 day shipping but the 8320 is 175 and 8350 is 189... such good deals but i cant figure out which i want!!!! i know the 8350 is elder god teir of amd cpus but i dont know if i want to spend all that cash on it when the 6300 is amazing for 129!

if i get a buyer for my 965 im going 8 core no doubt

But you got to sell that cocaine first. Never get high on your own stuff.

haha