Another simple one. Ive just realised I've got enough spare parts to build a decent am3+ rig, The only thing I'm mising is a processor, so I'm wondering which one you'd recommend for around £90. It'll primarily be used by my parents for light office work and web browsing and maybe a little gaming when I visit from uni on gta v, train simulator & spin tires.
So far, my choice had been wittled down to the FX 8320E, based on its reviews and incredibley fair price point.
Thanks for your advice! :)
FX-8320 or 8320E, depending on your power and thermal requirements for the build. I know the UK hardware market is a little inflated versus the US market, but you can pick up an 8320 at MicroCenter for about $130 USD so that fits perfectly into your 90 quid budget. For the duties you described you could probably use an FX-6350 as an alternative, fewer cores but higher clock speed for single threaded use.
FX-8320($130) or the FX-6300($100) are your best bet.
6300 is still a great value buy especially for the use case you described.
UK pricing with VAT, that £90 quid doesn't go far. Looking at Overclockers.co.uk
FX4350 at £79.99 will keep you under budget. The FX6350 bust the budget at £99.95
You are going to have to stretch your budget somewhat to get a new eight core.
I did find a FX 8320E on Amazon.co.uk for £101.42 Link
FX6300 in my opinnion, is one of the best value for money chip on the am3+ platform.
If you allready have a am3+ motherboard.
If you dont have a motherboard yet?
Then i would go with the Skylake i3-6100.
Depends on what motherboard you already have?
If you plan on OC'ing the 8320e hands down. If your not then the 6350.
Also check this out! the 8320 comes with a heat pipe cpu cooler and the 8320e comes with an aluminum block cooler. They are MUCH better then the one that came with the phenom however and I am fine with mine.
Thanks for your input guys :) I can get a good deal on an 8320, so I think, realistically, I'm gonna go for that at the moment.
However, as the PC will be used more by my parents, they have said they'll give me half of the money to go towards whichever processor I choose. Now this gave me a silly (but possible) idea: I already own an 8350 and its pretty solid, but if I could get hold of a 9590, I could keep that for myself and stick the 8350 in their rig.
It was established in another thread that the 9590 would not warrant the £179 upgrade, but the question is - would it be worth an £85 upgrade?
This might just be me being tired and a bit naive but what would you guys do? :)
8320e for sure, don't have to worry about not having the "highest end" chip for your socket at least in regards to the number of cores
no one should ever buy a 9590, maybe if you get one for free
Or if they want to burn their place of residence down.