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6300 or 4170

ididi9

ididi9

ididi9

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Basically I'm building a gaming PC and my budget for a CPU is about £150, so I chosee the Gigabyte 970A-DS3 but which processor should I go for, I was thinking:

AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core 4170 Black Edition 4.20Ghz

or

AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 3.50GHz

but I don't really know, any CPU and Motherboard that would be compatible with MSI HD 7870, Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black and 8GB of DDR3 would be fine.

Suggestions?
 
ididi9 said:
Basically I'm building a gaming PC and my budget for a CPU is about £150, so I chosee the Gigabyte 970A-DS3 but which processor should I go for, I was thinking:

AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core 4170 Black Edition 4.20Ghz

or

AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 3.50GHz

but I don't really know, any CPU and Motherboard that would be compatible with MSI HD 7870, Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black and 8GB of DDR3 would be fine.

Suggestions?
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The Piledriver FX-6300 <- £100.... good price! Is a much better CPU.

This is a much better case for £10 more than your Elite 430

Given that the FX-6300 is only £100 and you say you have £150, can you push to £65 on the Motherboard?
This is a much better Board than the Gigabyte.

Will you be overclocking the CPU?

As for the 7870, good choice... :D
 
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Ive got the ASRock 970 Extreme3 AMD 970 and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone as the vrms on the board are really prone to getting too hot.

My old asus 700 series board is still running and does a better job
 
humbug said:
The Piledriver FX-6300 <- £100.... good price! Is a much better CPU.

This is a much better case for £10 more than your Elite 430

Given that the FX-6300 is only £100 and you say you have £150, can you push to £65 on the Motherboard?
This is a much better Board than the Gigabyte.

Will you be overclocking the CPU?

As for the 7870, good choice... :D
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Im fine with with the case. This motherboard I think I'll be OK with.

I'm going overclock in the future but not straight away
 
JonSmith said:
Do you mean the VRMs or the heatsinks are hot? The heatsinks getting hot is fine as that means they are working properly.
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The VRMs overheat and cause cpu throttling, its a pretty common problem / issue with the motherboard.

And to the op i have a coolermaster 430 on another pc and its a pretty good case for the money, and i don't want to start another debate on which is best but if your going for a gaming pc what made you go with amd ? if your sticking with amd would you not be better getting the 8320 espicially as your budget would allow for it.
 
ididi9 said:
Im fine with with the case. This motherboard I think I'll be OK with.

I'm going overclock in the future but not straight away
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Then you will need an after market CPU cooler, about £20 to £30 will get you a decent one.
 
danny77 said:
The VRMs overheat and cause cpu throttling, its a pretty common problem / issue with the motherboard.

And to the op i have a coolermaster 430 on another pc and its a pretty good case for the money, and i don't want to start another debate on which is best but if your going for a gaming pc what made you go with amd ? if your sticking with amd would you not be better getting the 8320 espicially as your budget would allow for it.
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I have the 990fx extreme 3 and my vrms overheat and cause throttling as well.
 
Passey89, have you not thought about getting a better board as you allready know the asrock is not the best for getting any decent overclocks out of.

For example with my 8120 i could only achieve a stable 3.7 where as the same chip on my older cheaper asus m5a78l-m was fine running at 4.3
 
danny77 said:
Passey89, have you not thought about getting a better board as you allready know the asrock is not the best for getting any decent overclocks out of.

For example with my 8120 i could only achieve a stable 3.7 where as the same chip on my older cheaper asus m5a78l-m was fine running at 4.3
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yeh its not in the budget atm going to new York next week so might have a look there.
 
danny77 said:
The VRMs overheat and cause cpu throttling, its a pretty common problem / issue with the motherboard.

And to the op i have a coolermaster 430 on another pc and its a pretty good case for the money, and i don't want to start another debate on which is best but if your going for a gaming pc what made you go with amd ? if your sticking with amd would you not be better getting the 8320 espicially as your budget would allow for it.
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The 8320 is forty pound over budget
 
In your first post you said you had a budget for cpu of £150 or does that amount include the motherboard ?, if so and you want to stick with amd the 6300 is the better choice of the two
 
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