cpu upgrade.

[beowulf666]

im thinking of upgrading my 1100t,but unsure which way to go.I only realy do gaming so would a FX-4300 quad core or a FX 8350 be a better choice.is the more cores better?

 

[Avenged7Fold]

What are your full specs?

You will get a lot of people reply here and tell you to abandon AMD and get an I5. I have had both a 8350 and a i5, and though the i5 performed marginally better for me, it was because i only have a single GTX 580 and so i wasn't bottlenecked and both were perfectly adequate for gaming with little difference. However for gaming you will find that 8350 will at least 4 cores idle since games at the moment aren't suited to use more cores, so if your going for just a gaming build a FX63xx will do just as good (who knows what will happen in the future considering the next generation console's specs!).

I think there is NO point in going fx4300 (i would say a 1100T would be better) and to be honest, even if you were to get a FX6300, i couldn't say you would be getting much of a performance boost, since clock for clock they are similar but its likely you would get a much nicer overclock on the FX chip.

 

[Smoogels]

What are your full specs?

You will get a lot of people reply here and tell you to abandon AMD and get an I5. I have had both a 8350 and a i5, and though the i5 performed marginally better for me, it was because i only have a single GTX 580 and so i wasn't bottlenecked and both were perfectly adequate for gaming with little difference. However for gaming you will find that 8350 will at least 4 cores idle since games at the moment aren't suited to use more cores, so if your going for just a gaming build a FX63xx will do just as good (who knows what will happen in the future considering the next generation console's specs!).

I think there is NO point in going fx4300 (i would say a 1100T would be better) and to be honest, even if you were to get a FX6300, i couldn't say you would be getting much of a performance boost, since clock for clock they are similar but its likely you would get a much nicer overclock on the FX chip.

I agree with many of your points but I think a 8 core is still a wise decision. The Crysis 3 benchmark shows the FX 8 cores performing pretty well and using all 8 cores. Who knows, maybe in a few months more games will act similarly.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

I agree with many of your points but I think a 8 core is still a wise decision. The Crysis 3 benchmark shows the FX 8 cores performing pretty well and using all 8 cores. Who knows, maybe in a few months more games will act similarly.

Literately just bought crysis 3 since the post and WOW was i surprised to see all cores being used. Hopefully we can see more of this in the future. The price difference between a 6300 and a 83xx isnt much, and after seeing its performance in crysis 3 first hand and on the benchmarks, i must say it is worth considering the bump up even if you will just game on it.

 

[humbug]

AMD have maneged to get themselves in to all the new Game Consoles, the new PS4 is running an 8 core AMD CPU, game dev's are going to start optimising for that, Crysis 3 seems to be the first one.

I think more games are going to start using more cores, Crysis 3 is the first to show the FX-8350 comparable in performance to the i7 3770K.

Given the near £100 price difference, i would suggest the FX-8350 is definitely worth considering, spend the difference on a better GPU.