best budget amd processor

[DrMrLordX]

MMOs are notoriously single-thread heavy, and AMD CPUs are horribly behind in single-threaded performance. The CPU you want is the Core i3 6100.

Here's an example of a recent MMO:

Sadly they don't have any of the SR CPUs listed there. An 880k @ 4.5-4.7 GHz would probably do better. Here's a vid of ESO on an 860k:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAmRjJLx8A

 

[guachi]

AMD CPUs suck for any 2016 gaming; FM2 is deader then disco, FX is utterly useless. You want no lower than an i5 6500. Anything else is compromise you will hate, especially with minimum FPS drops. A Core i3 will run MMORPGs, but anything else upcoming over the next few years will start to drag.

Looking at the Anandtech CPU bench and your statement about the FX chips doesn't hold water.

Get an 8350 for $70 less than a 6600 and a mother board for $40 less. Take the extra cash and buy a better video card and you'll end up with game FPS that's 10% higher.

A 6600 in the benchmarks is only about 10% faster in games.

Though I'd recommend a i3 6100 or an athlon x4 if you are on a budget.

I know people go on about a system being end of life or not upgradeable, but in 24 years of building my own PCs I've never upgraded my CPU without also having to upgrade my motherboard and I've rarely had more success with being able to reuse RAM.

 

[nerp]

Get the i3-6100. Great chip. I would know. I have one. You don't even need an i5, really. Plus for single threaded performance, the i3 is clocked nicely.

The AMD offerings are just too weak right now, sadly. And saving $75 by going AMD instead of intel for the board/cpu is not worth it.

I like how I can pop in an i5 or i7 no problem. Plus DDR4, etc.

And no, it won't be hard finding a skylake i5 or i7 down the road. Just like there's no problem finding i5s and i7s from any other prior generation. They're plentiful.

 

[csherman82]

This is awesome. I have a lot of reading to catch up on with all the informational posts I have been getting. Glad my friend "the sauce" recommended me to join these forums.

 

[bystander36]

Looking at the Anandtech CPU bench and your statement about the FX chips doesn't hold water.

Get an 8350 for $70 less than a 6600 and a mother board for $40 less. Take the extra cash and buy a better video card and you'll end up with game FPS that's 10% higher.

A 6600 in the benchmarks is only about 10% faster in games.

Though I'd recommend a i3 6100 or an athlon x4 if you are on a budget.

I know people go on about a system being end of life or not upgradeable, but in 24 years of building my own PCs I've never upgraded my CPU without also having to upgrade my motherboard and I've rarely had more success with being able to reuse RAM.

The thing about the benchmarks you often see, is they give you an average. In most games, during most of a benchmark, your FPS are not held back by your CPU, but when it does, the Intel CPU's do much better than 10% faster. Add in the fact that most benchmarks for MMO's avoid added CPU load by testing in places without people, they just don't paint a full picture. In real MMO use, AMD CPU's fall behind a lot more than 10%.

 

[Madpacket]

This is awesome. I have a lot of reading to catch up on with all the informational posts I have been getting. Glad my friend "the sauce" recommended me to join these forums.

I also recommend the Core i3-6100/Z170 with the caveat you get at least DDR4 2666 or ideally 3000Mhz memory. Dual core Skylakes really benefit from higher speed memory and the cost of the higher speed sticks have come down in price where the difference is negligible.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-core-i3-6100-review