Good catch on the board, from what I'm reading, it's definitely to be avoided for higher AMD FX CPUs........ I'll give you that(And OP if you're still reading, please don't buy this board if you intend to ever upgrade past a 6300). Onto your claims about the I3 consistently outperforming the 6300 in games..... show me.
It's hard to find direct comparisons, but check out this review. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7963/...iew-core-i7-4790-i5-4690-and-i3-4360-tested/9 The 4360 is doing really well for itself in the gaming tests. Also http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/699?vs=1197 They're basically nearly identical in multithread tests, but the i3's single thread performance dominates.
No doubt, something can definitely be said for the single thread performance of Intel CPUs, that's one reason I decided to go Intel this generation, we're still talking a 6 core vs a 2 core with hyper threading though, it would be interesting to see some direct gaming benchmarks..... personally I don't think you're going to see more than a few frames per second difference between the two in most games. btw, you guys wasted most of my day arguing.... I could have been playing games
The 6300 is really more like a tri-core when it comes to gaming. FPU units are halved in Piledriver architecture. It has 6 integer units and shared blocks of cache. I hate to be pedantic about this normally but it's worth pointing out in this case. Also, emulation. Emulation is something Intel is miles ahead in. Dolphin/PCSX2 run like dogs on AMD hardware.
gaming on your intel cpu? why are you discouraging someone else to do the same and try shoving amd down his throat?
Discouraging? No. Recommending AMD to someone doing a budget build? Yes. Why? Because I've owned enough AMD products to know that though they are far from perfect, they are still an extremely viable and competitive option, and I've also done enough gaming to know that CPU rarely counts for crap in the vast majority of games, it's the GPU doing 90% of the work, and as long as your CPU is halfway modern, you'll do just fine, so for someone that doesn't really care about brand loyalty and is trying to stay on a budget, AMD just makes sense........ The only way you could possibly convince me otherwise is if you could show me a good sampling of real world gaming benchmarks from more than a single source in which the AMD CPU is being vastly outperformed by the equivalent Intel CPU.
Like has been said, it all depends on what you find acceptable. Personally I find anything over 18 fps to be acceptable. In my experience, it's only when you dip below 15 that you see stuttering. Minimum 25fps on medium settings would be fine with me. Even low settings would work if I had to go that way. I never use full Ultra even when I could. I see almost no difference between High and Ultra on most games and I always turn off the full screen bloom effects because they hurt my eyes and give me headaches. I try to use the highest settings I can that maintain a minimum 38-40 fps. The rig the OP presented should do acceptably well.
I agree with Skippy about the FX-6300 too. It's what I have and it does very well. All the gaming tests I have seen show it beating the i3 offerings rather handily in gaming (not in everything though) and coming close to some of the lower end i5's. It also beats the i7 920 but I realize that is an old CPU. I would definitely recommend that the OP consider the 6300 over the CPU he presented. If the budget could be worked out it will perform considerably better.
You want me to provide proof that intel cpus are better than amd counterparts?? I am going to ask you for proof of the opposite. But you can't use teksyndecate.
You know what, I'm just putting you on my ignore list, you're clearly an idiot, and not to be taken seriously by anyone. Enjoy your sorry miserable life you moronic fanboy. PS: Learn to read idiot. I've got no patience for trolls.
Please... Put aside 50 pence a day and in a year you can buy a shiny i5, no problem. Going AMD now (cpu) is nonsense. Also, $700 board? Do you live on mars? You can get a perfectly fine modern z97 board for around $100. Do me a favor, stop spewing tripe. Edit: here you go, darling http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157521a perfectly fine budget z97 board. One of a few.
I knew he was linking that tek syndicate crap before I even clicked the link. What a narb. So you have nothing to back up your drivel?
No he doesn't because only his opinion matters. You disagree and ask for proof your a troll. He mentioned a 700 mb only to edit it later and say he never said it. 700 bucks for socket 1150 is nuts. No cpu is going to be priced that high. Let alone a 700 dollars for a socket 1150 mb.
Come on dude, this is crossing the line. It's easy to prove that Intel's offerings are simply better. You're correct in that an AMD will do the job just fine and he probably won't ever notice, but I'm in the business of providing the best advice I can. That means I'm going to give him the *best* parts for his given budget. Nobody is trolling.
Well FX3850 or 9590 isnt that bad, http://www.pcgameshardware.de/FX-9590-CPU-257460/Tests/AMD-FX-9590-im-Test-1081286/ fx8150 is more crap http://www.pcgameshardware.de/CPU-Hardware-154106/Tests/Core-i7-4790K-im-Test-1125871/ But once you OC those i7's it doesnt have a chance anymore http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ls-canyon-i7-4790k-performance-review-10.html
Reported you for being a troll and being disrespectful towards other users. Ok back on topic There are other guides on how to build a tight budget computers on YT.