Noticed there almost always selling out. I have one but upgraded so i would bottleneck my 7870
I wouldn't say special, but they are a 6-core processor at a good price. I dont think your 7870 would bottleneck a fx 6100 though.... what did you upgrade to?
You can buy the FX6300 cheaper and it's a much better cpu
Grabbed one of the newer 6350
FX6100 is a Zambezi (bulldozer) cpu, its not a bad cpu for gaming, but the single core performance of the zambezi was terrible, so for normale single threaded windows tasks, its a bit slow. FX6300 Vishera is a much better cpu yes, better per core performance.
FX6350 is also a great choice good luck with it ☺
i have a fx6100 and its not that good tbh i think there not being made now the newer chip's are out just makeing them rare.
I am going to wait for steamroller before upgradeing.
ya i thought maybe there was something i didnt know about it. I thought it was okay when i used mine but almost everyone told me its bottlenecking 7870 so upgraded not a big deal.
does it also work bad in gaming? because i saw a head to head i7-3770k vs FX6100 in BF3 doing overall the same fps scores in the game. But yeah in the main thing as i said above the single core performance of zambezi is terrible..
You have to overclock it to handle well in gameing when useing games that only use 2 of the core's when its useing more cores it gets better but still i got the cpu for free with a deal on some video cards so i cant complain.
i have to admit i did notice some funky stuff with the way it used its cores. A patch from microsoft seemed to fix that.
All in all, i thought it was a good general purpose workhorse
The patch from microsoft never installed for me it just wouldn't install so i just unparked the cpu cores to get rid of the problem of windows being a slow ass and locking down cores for no resion.