Fx 6300, fx 8320e or fx 8370e?

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What it says on the tin. I'm doing gaming (Heavily Modded Minecraft/Skyrim, Arkham Games, insurgency, Arma), maybe some streaming/recording/rendering videos, Modding for Minecraft/Skyrim but definitely spending most of my time with UE4 (unreal engine 4). I need some answers:

  1. fx 6300, fx 8320e or fx 8370e?

  2. Is the difference between the 8320e and the 8370e that big?

  3. would a 6300 be fine for UE4?

  4. which one is the better bang for the buck

Pricing with Mobos: http://www.microcenter.com/site/products/amd_bundles.aspx

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the 8370e with the Asrock 990FX killer board is the most insane deal in that list.

If you are shopping directly at a Microcenter. DEFINITELY pick that up.

As for gaming. the 8-Cores are fine if you don't throw in a insane GPU in it.

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To be honest, for what you want to do, I couldn't recommend any of those parts. Intel is the way to go for those titles.

That being said, of those, the 8370E is the best choice. I also like the M5A99FX Pro motherboard.

Using those and good aftermarket cooling you should be able to get a good overclock which should offset the lower IPC. It will really help out in Skyrim and ARMA.

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8320e OC'd for sure

Although if you aren't going to make use of the 2 extra cores you might as well go for the 6300.

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For the games you play, it would be realy better to go with an intel i5 realy.
especialy for ARMA.

But since you also do some video editing, you might also look into a Xeon E3-1231-V3.

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Yes i totaly agree.
Maybe the Xeon E3-1231-V3 is an interessting chip for him.

It wont do aswell as an overclocked 4690K in ARMA (ARMA is well known for liking high clockspeeds on just a few cores.)
but it will still be better then any FX cpu out there.
All those other games will run butter smooth on the Xeon, and those 4 cores 8 Threads will be realy nice for video editing.

But yeah the only con for the Xeon, its not overclockable, But you can pair it with a cheap H97 mobo, that will save money.

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I have a 1230V3. Only slightly slower. ~100mhz. I believe. Great CPU although if you don't want HT a 4690K will be the way to go. It will be more expensive than any of those AMD options of course.

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Yes if gaming is the main concern, then the 4690K is the better choice.
But if you do some video editing aswell then the Xeon might be interessting for him.

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Those FX chips would do very well for editing and probably Skyrim, considering the tweaking you can do. I haven't bought Skyrim but I have Oblivion running over 80 mods very well on a 6300. But from what little i know of ARMA, the Arkham games, etc, it seems like all their CPU optimizations are rubbish and I've heard that ARMA especially eats your CPU, even some i5s. So the above mentioned Intel processors are probably a safer option. Do some research on those games if you're worried about it, see if saving money with AMD is worth it.