carmageddon wrote: ↑ This is incompatible with AM3 mobos, right ? I have a phenom which doesn't support SSE4.1. Most AAA developers dropped support for it, and it's getting frustrating not being able to play the new games. Latest one is AC origins, and ubisoft being ubisoft, refused to path it.
May just upgrade to a Ryzen eventually. Need some good deals on it.
damn I was hoping this could replace my Phenom II, but it seems my motherboard has an AM3 socket and doesn't support AM3+ processors. Oh well, thanks anyway OPtonedcarrot wrote: ↑ Yup. Socket AM3+ only.
Processor Onlytonedcarrot wrote: ↑ Yup. Socket AM3+ only.
If you are only surfing with perhaps some casual photo or video editing then perhaps not, depends on what you are doing, the fx6300 is also a pretty good processor in it's own right.EverydayCloudy wrote: ↑ I currently have the fx 6300 would this be a good upgrade?
Lol, because that thing is powerful enough for most and many of us still have the hardware to use it with and don't want to pay the high prices newer gear is going for presently, and most of us are not merely keyboard jockeying, sticker numbers reading, bench mark junkies. Aaand it's cheap even for what it presently is to some.
This cpu has actually gotten better as software is taking advantage of its feature set much better than 5 years ago, there is nothing worong with this cpu, except it is not the most power effeicient and once overclocked it is fine for majority of users easily except die hard gamers. Edits video quiet wellbetamaxman wrote: ↑ Lol, because that thing is powerful enough for most and many of us still have the hardware to use it with and don't want to pay the high prices newer gear is going for presently, and most of us are not merely keyboard jockeying, sticker numbers reading, bench mark junkies. Aaand it's cheap even for what it presently is to some.
We have a FX 6300 in a system with 8GB DDR3 and a GTX 760, which our teens are using for gaming (Overwatch, PUBG, CSGO etc) and video editing. Based on the specs for the two processors, my gut feeling is that we'd be better off buying another 8GB RAM instead of this processor. Does that sound right to you?betamaxman wrote: ↑ If you are only surfing with perhaps some casual photo or video editing then perhaps not, depends on what you are doing, the fx6300 is also a pretty good processor in it's own right.
Hard to say. I don't think any of the games you listed take up a lot of RAM. Monitor the CPU usage, RAM usage and GPU usage while in game. Whatever is at 100% or 99% will be your bottleneck.tvisforme wrote: ↑ We have a FX 6300 in a system with 8GB DDR3 and a GTX 760, which our teens are using for gaming (Overwatch, PUBG, CSGO etc) and video editing. Based on the specs for the two processors, my gut feeling is that we'd be better off buying another 8GB RAM instead of this processor. Does that sound right to you?
You can see a comparison benchmark of both CPUs - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.ph ... cmp[]=1781 -- I would add another 8GB and SSD (if you don't have one).tvisforme wrote: ↑ We have a FX 6300 in a system with 8GB DDR3 and a GTX 760, which our teens are using for gaming (Overwatch, PUBG, CSGO etc) and video editing. Based on the specs for the two processors, my gut feeling is that we'd be better off buying another 8GB RAM instead of this processor. Does that sound right to you?
Unless you absolutely need more cores, overclocking is your cheapest upgrade path until you want to take the plunge on a new MOBO+CPU. A Hyper 212 Evo air cooler ($35 on amazon) and a quick google search helped me overclock my fx-6300 to 4.4GHz fairly easily. If I'd been willing to spend more time on it I probably could have squeezed out another 0.1-0.2GHz.EverydayCloudy wrote: ↑ I currently have the fx 6300 would this be a good upgrade?
