I currently have an AMD FX 6300 in my current system but I am looking to upgrade because it seems to be limiting my GPUs performance within quite a lot of my games. Fallout 4 is a big one it seems to be bottlenecking. I was wondering what would be a better upgrade path. Should I either upgrade to a 8350 or should I completely switch to something haswell based? I'm not after skylake because I don't want to upgrade my ram as well. I'm not into overclocking my CPU so that is not on the cards. Just wondering what your guys input is.
Allot depends on your monitor and gpu. As far as upgrading to an 8350 from what I can tell it uses an updated syrim game engine that will use 2 cores max. Atleast that's what I heard.
My dau has the game and she has a 7870k paired with an r7 250.
Haswell is getting cheaper and the I3 skylake may be a great option also.
Have you tried overclocking? What MB do you have? One nice thing about the time b4 an upgrade is that you can do overclocks that you normally would never do.
They do have skylake budget boards that use DDR3.
Hope this helps. You don't know how painfull it is me to help with an intel build:)
@ItzzMonstarr, like @anon85933304, I am wondering if you have overclocked that AMD FX 6300. Have you? I am not saying it will be the answer to all or any issues you are having but try it before you look to upgrade if you have not.
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Wouldn't be worth it to get the 8 core
probably just get an i5 6500 now or wait for zen or something
and ya haswell would work too, you'd probably want a Xeon 1231v3 for that platform
and ya if you can OC your chip to like 4.5ghz it should be fine for a while longer, did you already have an SSD?
Either wait for xen. Or just go Intel. And if it is for fallout go intel and get a pcie ssd or nvme m.2.
Really isn't going to be worth it to get the nvme drive man
I have struggled with this question for years. I was an AMD fanboy who bought an FX-8150 (first 8-core) and quickly regretted it (AMD really was always better back then!).
The 8350 simply is not that good. I am seriously considering a Devil's Canyon/Haswell upgrade also to avoid leaving my beautiful Corsair Vengeance behind.
That said, I went from an XFX 6860 to an EVGA 660ti to an EVGA 970, and for 99% of games that is just plain good enough. The only game where the CPU bottleneck bothers me is StarCraft II, which also happens to be my favorite game. Obviously it is not that big of a deal, but in Crysis 3 or Metro or any other non-Sim type game CPU's really do not matter. Personally, I am fascinated to see what DX12 has to offer.
I would get a cooling upgrade, OC, and wait. AMD chips really lust for a good overclock. I will give you my old Asetek liquid cooler (like a Corsair H50) if you can pick it up here in Chicago (right by White Sox stadium). That is enough to get you to 4.4-4.5, which will yield some serious improvements. Then you need to see what you really need to do. I probably need to make the same decision.
I hate it when stuff has to load into a world. So I rather have it load as fast as possible.
You cannot knock the G3258. it is really a good chip.
I'd love to take you up on that offer for the cooler but sadly I live in Australia. Also what sort of frame rate improvements (take a guess) would I looking at if I went out and bought an aftermarket cooler to overclock? Would it be has any serious impact on game performance?
Would it be worth going out and buying an aftermarket cooler to squeeze more out of my current cpu or should I just keep saving so that I can upgrade quicker? I already have an ssd so that isn't really in the equation.
Sure, but a sata SSD is pretty much already going to be fast enough for most tasks.
What makes you think it's bottlenecking?
Even something as simple as a Hyper 212 Evo will give you enough headroom to overclock quite a bit.
Waiting on Zen is also an option.
Personally I'd wait to see what happens to the market when the new chips launch. A 6300 probably isn't hurting you all that much (at least not enough that you can't wait a couple more months imo).
Or even a Hyper 212 plus would do an adequate job... last i saw the plus was ~$10 cheaper than the Evo for an extremely marginal difference in performance (if any difference at all).
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No dud just ditch your amd motherboard altogether and get an intel board. Or wait for Xen.