FX Chip or Athlon Chip?

ZeroInfinity94

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Am in need of a new chip.
So am I better off with an FX 6300 or an Athlon x4 860K?

The only thing I use my rig for is gaming which at the moment is AC Unity and Dragonage.

So what would I be better off buying the only thing is I don't have the money for an FX 83xx chip and definitely don't have the money for an Intel chip.

Cheers Guys
 
That is actually a very good question. Both chips have identical performance all around.
But here are some main differences. The FX-chip is hexacored which hopefully in the future game devs learn to enable multithreaded tasks the FX will be able to manage quite well.
The Athlon chip however is based on a new platform and a new chipset which compared to the FX chipset, has PCIe3.0 which provides more bandwith to the graphics card, however the only card that saturates the PCIe3.0 is the 295x2 something too expensive for you to afford apparently.

So my recommendation would be, go for the Athlon chip if you only care about gaming, and because I'm hoping that the next generation of the A series from AMD will remain on the FM2+ socket and won't move to an FM3 socket. The AM3+ platform is dead.
 
Cheers for the quick reply sir.
So your recommendation is go with the Athlon chip then.
The only use for my system is gaming I don't do anything other than web browsing.
Could you recommend a solid board for me as well please? the FM2+ socket boards baffle me still :(.
Cheers
 
That is actually a very good question. Both chips have identical performance all around.
But here are some main differences. The FX-chip is hexacored which hopefully in the future game devs learn to enable multithreaded tasks the FX will be able to manage quite well.
The Athlon chip however is based on a new platform and a new chipset which compared to the FX chipset, has PCIe3.0 which provides more bandwith to the graphics card, however the only card that saturates the PCIe3.0 is the 295x2 something too expensive for you to afford apparently.

So my recommendation would be, go for the Athlon chip if you only care about gaming, and because I'm hoping that the next generation of the A series from AMD will remain on the FM2+ socket and won't move to an FM3 socket. The AM3+ platform is dead.

pretty sure AMD are working on new FX desktop chips. really not dead just pushed back.
 
FX 6300 and something like a MSI 970 gaming will suit you well. Heck you might be able to get an 8320 at some point in the future :). Then again, it'd be a pointless upgrade unless you do professional tasks/streaming.
 
pretty sure AMD are working on new FX desktop chips. really not dead just pushed back.

We do actually know that they are working on a new chip that will arrive in early 2016 but what I'm saying is that the AM3+ socket and the 9xx chipsets CANNOT accomodate the needs of a new cpu since the technology has evolved. the new amd top of the line flagship MUST and WILL support DDR4 and who knows maybe even PCIe4.0
 
Do you have a source on this information? (I just wanna read something)
There was never much info, but here you go
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The fx part is definitely superior. You will also have better luck overclocking the 6300 than the 860k. Although the 860k has the advantage of being on the fm2+ socket which AMD will plan to support all the way through 2016.
 
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