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The 7950 will be pumping more heat than the FX-6

If cooler running is your thing, then there's really no value in replacing for another FX. The 4300 is much higher clocked than the 6100, so probably runs just as hot at stock, despite fewer cores.
 
Martini1991 said:
Erm, we need to know your motherboard to actually advise you.
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I understand where you were coming from, as you did actually mention the Intel one in context of upgrading both board and CPU at the same time, but I think that point got missed. Sounds like a good deal too, by the way!!

OP - If you're insistent about staying with AMD and your board can handle it, an FX8350 will see you pretty happy. I'm considering upgrading to that from my own 6350... depends what Intel can give me for a similar price, though.
 
As an owner of several bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs i will say that you wont notice the difference by changing to a 6350/8320 unless you use a fairly powerful GPU and play games that can utilize those extra cores.

The bench marked difference between PD and BD is like 5-7% but in terms of how it feels, its practically the same and definitely does not warrant an upgrade unless the extra 2 cores on the 8320 will serve you well.

A PD quad will be a downgrade imo from a 6100, since you can clock the 6100 up past the factory speed and the extra cores do well in some games. You wont notice the power difference either.

If you are just looking to lower heat output, the best option is just to undervolt what you can.
 
The reason why i dont want to go intel right now is i can do an AMD upgrade now for £40 after selling my old CPU, but going intel is £250 after selling my CPU and MoBo, and i just dont feel i need to. system runs fine, i got good frame rates.

My system for the ppl that asked is.
Cpu: AMD FX-6100(Stock) was OC'ed but had no real world gain it run just hotter.
MoBo: MSI 990XA-GD55 AMD 990X
Ram 8gb Corsair vengeance 2 x 4gb 1600mhz
GFX: XFX ATI Radeon HD 7950
PSU: XFX 550w pro (i am looking into getting a new one at the weekend).

And it will be wraped in a nice new case when OcUK deliver it tomorrow.... Corsair Carbide 540, seen one the other day in person there soo nice
 
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2500K + P8Z68-V for example, used, = £140 ish, less what you get for your kit. :p

That board is alright. Doesn't look like there is official support according to their site for PD, but that may be out of date.

e; looks like it will support an 8320 or 8350 if you update the BIOS first. :)
 
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acme15 said:
2500K + P8Z68-V for example, used, = £140 ish, less what you get for your kit. :p

That board is alright. Doesn't look like there is official support according to their site for PD, but that may be out of date.
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Plus a full system format, and 300GB+ of games to download, and 200GB+ and so on.
Plus if your getting a new system why get the old stuff that like going to buy a new farrier that asking if they have old model
 
acme15 said:
2500K + P8Z68-V for example, used, = £140 ish, less what you get for your kit. :p

That board is alright. Doesn't look like there is official support according to their site for PD, but that may be out of date.

e; looks like it will support an 8320 or 8350 if you update the BIOS first. :)
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Where are you getting your prices from last few 2500K's in GayBay how been in the 100's
 
Sorry, they go for about £100 on the Members Market but I don't think you have access? :(
 
P4Clock said:
The reason why i dont want to go intel right now is i can do an AMD upgrade now for £40 after selling my old CPU, but going intel is £250 after selling my CPU and MoBo, and i just dont feel i need to. system runs fine, i got good frame rates.

My system for the ppl that asked is.
Cpu: AMD FX-6100(Stock) was OC'ed but had no real world gain it run just hotter.
MoBo: MSI 990XA-GD55 AMD 990X
Ram 8gb Corsair vengeance 2 x 4gb 1600mhz
GFX: XFX ATI Radeon HD 7950
PSU: XFX 550w pro (i am looking into getting a new one at the weekend).

And it will be wraped in a nice new case when OcUK deliver it tomorrow.... Corsair Carbide 540, seen one the other day in person there soo nice
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You won't get a new decent AMD CPU after 40 pound after selling your own, unless maybe you get an FX6300, which isn't going to be a massive upgrade over your FX6100 if you're overclocking.

And selling CPU/Mobo to Intel isn't 250 quid, closer to 150, you'd be able to get a brand new Z87 board with the money from selling, and then a 4670K for 150.

But if you don't want Intel, don't buy it, buy your FX83, it'll cost about 80 quid, it's the most viable price/performance upgrade.

P4Clock said:
Plus a full system format, and 300GB+ of games to download, and 200GB+ and so on.
Plus if your getting a new system why get the old stuff that like going to buy a new farrier that asking if they have old model
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You don't need to do a full reformat.
But don't let facts get in the way of brand preference.
 
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i was under the impression that changing chip sets could be done, but the systems never really run stable, when going amd to intel or other way.
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The systems run fine really, done one very recently, from an AMD AM3 set up to an i5 4670K set up for a friend.

You get some people who do changes and say it'll cut out when "starting" Windows, but that's because they haven't changed the SATA mode (Mobo's now generally use AHCI by default, whereas likelihood is, by default you're using IDE)
 
With windows 7 it's not a problem at all. You only really get issues with AHCI, which is pretty easy to remedy by setting the BIOS to PATA compatibility mode and then doing a registry change before setting the BIOS back to AHCI.
 
To the OP,my mate has an FX6300 overclocked to 4.2GHZ with an overclocked HD7870LE/XT(which is around HD7950 level) and has 600+ games in his Steam library and he has not reported any issues so far with what he plays.If I were I would just overclock your FX6100 somewhat more,otherwise sell the FX6100 and get an FX8320.

If you look on websites like GameGPU and the like the FX6300 generally matches or exceeds the FX8150 in every game,despite having similar clockspeeds and less cores. With some games the gains have been very large,an example being the DiRT series which seems to have been bugged on BD based CPUs.


Martini1991 said:
Until games launch with Mantle, it's just noise (Something AMD are very good at making)
I like Mantle, I really do, I just don't see a sustained future.

I imagine we'll get Mantle titles, and then as DX12 launches, we'll see less (Assuming DX12 is any good)
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Star Citizen and the next Civilization will have it from day one,and a whole lot of other titles:

http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.p...-list-reveals-titles-with-mantle-support.html

Also,these are not AMD,but other companies who have signed up for it. Dozens of devs have signed up for it including DICE and Crytek. Its not like they would not know about DX12 beforehand as that would be utter stupidity from MS ignoring some of the major games devs. Its not like they would not sign up to something that will last on a few months at most would they?

The fact that an Unreal Engine based game got Mantle plonked onto it,is also very interesting.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The FX6100 goes for around the £50 to £70 mark on the famous auction site. FX8320 CPUs are £110 brand new,and probably a decent amount under that secondhand.

However,you get a better cooler for like £30 to £40 to overclock the FX6100. HWBOT says around 4.4GHZ for the FX6100 is an average overclock:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/fx_6100/
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When over coling the 6100 i found it to run hotter and give no extra power, 5-Fps in games.
 
I honestly can't see you getting £70 for the 6100, it was a poor cpu when launched, I'd get a 8320, although you won't see a huge improvement especially if you aren't overclocking, something the fx's do well.

If you up your budget I'd recommend a chipset change to z87 and a 4670k.
 
uksoldierboy said:
I honestly can't see you getting £70 for the 6100, it was a poor cpu when launched, I'd get a 8320, although you won't see a huge improvement especially if you aren't overclocking, something the fx's do well.

If you up your budget I'd recommend a chipset change to z87 and a 4670k.
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They sell on GayBay for £60-£70 all day

but am no selling anything anyway. and what the cost of an amd cpu new there is no problem buying one.
 
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