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Does anyone reccommend any particular CPU which is under £100. Looking to put together a build which won't be pushed to it limits but can handle running a couple of 3D Tech Software.
Better to tell us your total budget. At that part of the price range the motherboard cost is significant. Do you have a graphics card?
This gets you a reasonably quick CPU and graphics for £106 http://www.ebuyer.com/712906-amd-a10...-ad787kxdjcbox
If you want/already have a graphics card then I would say the answer is http://www.ebuyer.com/503899-amd-fx-...-fd6350frhkbox if you are building a full sized ATX case, but uATX motherboards for that cpu are rubbish so if you want something more compact then you are probably looking at an i3 like http://www.ebuyer.com/706948-intel-c...-bx80646i34170.
Ok lets just say I have a budget of £500 (not including Operating system) and will be looking to for a mid tower case.
How much of an improvement is the FX-6350 to the FX-6300?
In theory, about 10% if you are using lots of threads. They are basically the same chip, lots of people buy the 6300 and overclock it to 6350 speeds or even slightly higher though that is never guaranteed.Originally Posted by peppington
Anandtech has the answer. While it's not always the best basis of comparison, it is still enough to give you a good idea of the differences when comparing components.
Yeah I did compare them on CPU boss and by the looks of things the 6300 when overclocked has similar performance to the 6350 which makes more sense to just save the extra £20 and go for the FX 6300..
Second hand CPUs? eBay or CeX has really good prices. Would say CPU + RAM second hand, PSU + MB new, case up to your preference.
FX 6300 - eBay £75 BIN / new £79
FX 6350 - eBay £70 Buy it now or best offer!!! New for £97
FX 8320 - eBay £83 Buy it now or best offer!!! new £100-110
FX 8350 - eBay £110 / new £132
2 x 4GB DDR3 1600 - eBay £21 / CeX £30 / new £33
2 x 8GB DDR3 1866 - eBay £48 / CeX £60 / new £65
Last edited by Bonebreaker777; 07-08-2015 at 08:28 PM.
At £500 you can probably find a second hand sandy/Ivybridge. I grabbed a 2500K for £56 recently.
Just a bit of potentially-useful off-topic advice. Be very careful using CPU boss for comparing processors.
It's often highly misleading when it comes to comparisons; without dissecting why this is the case piece-by-piece, lets just say the compare irrelevant metrics, overstate the importance of others and just completely avoid the use of actual performance numbers or benchmarks a lot of the time. I've really no idea how it got so high in Google rankings.
E.g. you can stick a mobile phone CPU up against a desktop processor and come away thinking the phone CPU would be better for your gaming PC because it has more cores and a higher clock speed...
I usually buy from vendors based on reputation for support, I can't imagine giving up hassle free warranty and knowing that no-one has abused it for a fiver.
I'm not against second hand components, the RAM in this machine was used. In fact it was used enough that it was discarded into the WEEE pile at work for recycling, and even for free I wondered if it was going to be worth the aggro of testing.
If you were going to go second hand, I would have thought a built system would be a better bet. Something like http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/i5-2500k-C...item43e0b9a2b0
I agree, not a fan of buying second hand, just because you don't know how much the other person has abused it. For £75 I might as well buy brand new for the similar price.
A8-7600
It's £66 and does everything the op originally asked for.
I personally never had the slightest issue with buying from eBay. If you have problems, which would surface in the first few days, buyers protection is there for you.
On the other hand I never bought components for overclocking.Only stock speed or underclocking.
EDIT: that FX 8320 for £83 best offer can't be that bad. Even if it stays on stock, 8 cores are great! Works out £10 per core. Bargain!
Also, beware Passmark and any generic benchmark spitting out a single number.
When you're looking at wildly different architectures such as AMD's FX and Intel's i3 then performance is going to vary depending on application. There's a particularly large gap at the moment - each can get as much as 40-50% ahead of the other. You either need to look specifically at the software you're running, or look at a range of benchmarks to get an idea of what might be good for your workload.
I'd be a bit dubious about the merits of an FX-6300 series personally. I'd be looking at either an FX-8300 series (FX-8320E can be had for under £100 new) if you're going to (and can afford to) overclock or an i3-4170/4370 otherwise.
Skylake desktop i3s seem likely to be out before Christmas and will slightly skew the balance in that direction.
If you need to go cheaper then Intel's Pentium branded chips and AMD's 860k are both perfectly reasonable choices for what you want. The latter is an A10-7850k with the graphics disabled and for a big discount so a much more sensible buy than the various A8/A10 models if you're getting a separate card anyway.
What? Z97 P is a motherboard not a CPU, which is the discussion of this thread.
Jon
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