On one hand hte 6300 has 6 cores, and more cache, on the other the 760k has high clock speed and the fm2+ chipset has life in it whereas it looks like the am3+ doesn't. Granted each one will last 3 or 4 years at least for gaming so the chipset is most likely irrelevant right now, plus one could just overclock the 6300, but no idea what kind of motherboard would be needed to get it to say 4.0ghz.
Ugh can't decide. >.<
The fx6300 is the better performing chip. Consider the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard.
Never mind! Upon looking at microcenter I've noticed that the 8320 is only $20 more than the 6300, no way no how for that price it cannot be told no.
But thats for the reply I appreciate it.
Yeah, that's a great deal. Ensure that you pick a motherboard with a sufficient power phase design for the 8xxx chips. They are more power hungry in comparison to the 6300. Just Google the motherboard model and look at the specs. Anything higher than 6+2 will be sufficient. If you're unsure, just post to this same thread or make a new one.
I'm not too worried about that, microcenter has $40 off a motherboard when you buy an fx cpu so I can just get http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-990fxkiller
How is the stock cooler? is it enough for the 8320 or should I get like a hyper tx3? This cpu will not be overclocked, my bro is too worrisome(he worries) to overclock his stuff.
A 990FX motherboard and TX3 will be good
As long as you're not looking for small form factor (uATX) you should be happy w/ the FX series. AFAICT, nothing in the socket FM2 or FM2+ line have the L3 cache. It's just not part of the architecture.
The FX series has the L2 cache for each core, and the L3 cache shared by all cores. That gives a ton of on-chip memory. This should give a very significant performance boost to highly threaded data intensive tasks. If you're into editing music or video, or Photoshop, the FM chips will come to a grinding halt, flailing at all the memory swaps. The AM3+ chips should be able to gobble up large chunks of those tasks and push them through their multiple cores.
For gaming, your GPU is doing most of the computing, so with the right graphics card you should get playable frame rates either way.
I wish my city had a Microcenter, all we have are a Best Buy and a few mom and pop shops. So locally my choices are a big box store with employees that are clueless for hardware questions and limited overpriced inventory, or little shops with old components that are also overpriced.
FX8320 with Asrock 990FX fatality killer would be a good combo. the stock cooler performs not bad for stock speeds, only they are terrible loud. But you can allways buy a better cooler later on.
Yea, I've never been a fan of "going with a chipset with some life in it" and spending money on something that obviously underperforms vs the "dead chipset".... chances are their won't be life in the chipset in question regardless by the time you need to upgrade again (unless you purposefully bought an underpowered CPU)... so essentially, the point is completely nil...
buy something with the computing power you need at a price point you can afford, and get a motherboard that can fully power the chip... especially if it's a 8320/50... there's absolutely no reason to buy a 760k if you can afford a FX 6300+ and already have a full ATX case...
Unless AMD comes out with yet another socket, FM2+ is going to be their future platform for their next generation of CPUs/APUs. Looking at how beefy and tricked-out some of those FM2+ motherboards are, I can't see the current A10 APU's as being the best AMD has for this socket. Not even close. I'd almost put money on it that AMD has much bigger plans for the FM2+ platform in the very near future.
Also don't forget that the GPU cores in APUs will no longer be only useful for gaming and nothing else. With the implementation of HSA and using the GPU cores for other tasks (which they perform much faster than CPU cores), APUs could very well surpass current CPUs in overall performance. Not only that but with the ability to off-load specific tasks during gaming from a dGPU to the iGPU + significantly less CPU overhead in gaming with mantle, we should see much better gaming performance from lower-spec systems and even greater performance from higher-spec systems.
All that being said, right now I'd still go for an FX-83XX CPU and a quality AM3+ board with a strong VRM setup over the FM2+ platform, provided the budget allows. We haven't seen the end of the FX series capabilities yet either. AM3+ will still be a strong gaming platform for quite some time yet.
Go with the FX8320 and a board with good power phasing like 6+2 or 8+2. Stay away from the new APUs (Kaveri). They are over priced and AMD is trying to market them as a 12 core when they are really no more than a mediocre 4 core with no L3 cache. The HSA is irrelevant, cause at this point it is not supported and is not usable or increasing the new APUs performance. HSA may not be relative for 2-3 more years so its just marketing BS right now. Forget Mantle as well. New updates to dx11.2 coming this summer and dx12 in 2015 will basically have the same abilities as Mantle. Mantle will more than like be very short lived. The FX8320 + 990FX mobo + TX3 should give you a solid system for a few years yet and give ya some good overclocking. (I have my FX6300 @ 4.8GHz 1.45v with FX water cooler "70F room temp" idle 36c/load 62c)