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Swapping PC's for better gaming?

Phaetos

Phaetos

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In my sig is my current rig for my gaming needs. I have been wanting to upgrade my vid card and have gotten great help in that regard, but keep being told that my CPU is a bottleneck. I have another PC I built as a server, using an MSI 760GM-E51 (FX) AM3+ AMD 760G HDMI Micro ATX , a AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Desktop and Team Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800).

My question is this: is the FX-6300 a better choice for gaming instead CPU-wise?
 
Depends on the games, and whether you overclock. If you OC, yes, I'd say the FX is better.
 
Ken g6 said:
Depends on the games, and whether you overclock. If you OC, yes, I'd say the FX is better.
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I'm not an OC'er anymore. Mostly just Diablo 3, kinda getting into Heroes of the Storm, and the most intensive thing I've tried playing is Final Fantasy Reborn, that thing is a beast if you want it to look good.
 
lehtv said:
Going by that comparison, 6800K has better single core performance which is important for Diablo. He's better off with the 6800K.

In overall performance, FX-6300 is 7% faster which is nowhere near enough to call it a "marked improvement"... more of a pointless sidegrade.
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And by that it's only 0.2 better. Now account for adding in say a 270X, then the swap would make more sense then, right? I would get more life out of the FX for gaming, correct? I'm also considering this as a means to play FF XiV as well.
 
Phaetos said:
And by that it's only 0.2 better. Now account for adding in say a 270X, then the swap would make more sense then, right? I would get more life out of the FX for gaming, correct? I'm also considering this as a means to play FF XiV as well.
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I think that lehtv's point was that without overclocking, their performance is pretty similar overall (and the Bench agrees). So you're not going to notice a difference either way.
 
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