Hey Tek Syndicate! Just wondering what type of performance to excpect out of a 6300. I am building a new PC soon and plan on streaming. Would a 6300 be able to do this? Or would I be better off with a 8350? Also is the box cooler good enough to cool this cpu?
if you are willing to spend the extra money then do it.But the fx-6300 will be fine
Stock coolers will be fine for standard clock speeds, but if you plan on overclocking at all you'll need an aftermarket cooler and thermal paste.
What type of cooler would be best suited for this CPU?
Depends on what you're willing to spend on one. The Hyper 212 Evo would be a solid option for around $30.
I really like that cooler, There is one at my work sitting on a shelf, I don't think my boss would have a problem if I took it.
Of course the 8350 is better, it's performance measures to the 3770k. But the i7 is a bit of an overkill for gaming, you can go on just fine with an i5 equivalent = 6300. Invest the money in a better graphics card or cooler.
The 6300 is good, but if you can afford it, then get the 8350 for game future proofing. Newer games are going to have 8 threads because the new consoles have 8 threads. The individual cores of both CPU's perform about the same.
Hey man hi. I suggest that u get the fx 6300, but, if u can, get the 8320. The 8350 would be nice but I seriously do not see that the extra 50$ being justified by a mere 900 points increase in passmark. However if ur gona oc then the 8350 is a great option.
The 8320 can get to speeds of the 8350 on the stock cooler, with maybe some arctic silver.
Okay. I don't like qualifying anything as it degrades the following argument, but I have the older 6100 (the first gen bulldizer that everyone hated) and it runs fine. Taking into account that I am currently running GTA 5 on max settings and while itnis not constant 60fos it never gets bad enough to complain, there is a small bottleneck.
So qualification over.
Depending on you budget I would at this point in time advise against getting an AMD AM3+ CPU and Motherboard. They are end of life. Meaning there will benno upgrade in the future (barring 6300 to 8350 upgrade). They are getting old and while DX12 promises to alleviate the bottleneck we don't have that and it will not fix dx11 games.
There are similar priced Intel parts that will perform the same and allow annupgrade to.much better i5 andni7 parts and also an upgrade to broad well CPUs.
Getting a good Intel.mother board and cheap pentium, i3 or i5 will be better right now. But also more expensive in the long run.
Don't mistake me I use AMD and I like it but there is better for the same or not.much more and upgrades down the line.
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