Stay on the path to glory with an AMD FX™ processor in your system.
AMD FX processors deliver the highest clocks and most cores you can get on a consumer desktop - plus more cache memory than comparably-priced competition.
The AMD FX processor is built from the company's 8th generation x86 CPU architecture based on over 40 years of silicon-crafting experience.
Specifications
CPU Model - AMD FX-6300
Socket - AMD AM3+
Cores - 6 Cores
CPU Clock (Base/Max Turbo) - 3.5/4.1GHz
Total Cache (L2 and L3) - 14MB
AMD Turbo Core - Yes
Unlocked - Yes
TDP - 95W
Retail Boxed
Latest comments (23)
Vortax
13 Jun 16#23
Very good processor as for price. Im using him for 4 years now and still easily runs new games in highest details.
colganraz
11 Jun 16#22
Good deal! im using this CPU overclocked at 4.0Ghz with a GTX 970 and havent found a game the system wont play on max settings @ 1080.. hardest game i have run so far is the division, but will still play at 50 FPS with a few drops to about 40 FPS.
SSD is a bit small but i suppose it could be loaded with the O/S and a few apps for speed and use a seperate HDD for storage and games.
Perfectly good CPU for the average desktop user and gamers on a budget like myself
quadpatch
11 Jun 16#21
Yeah wtf?! he also doesnt even know how RAM works. Do you think he's running games at 720p on his 4k tele? :P
mark6226
10 Jun 16#19
I have the 6350 partnered with the gtx 970. My PC effortlessly plays games at native 4K with most games maxed out. Witcher 3, gta 5, metal gear 5, etc all run completely smoothly and they maxed out. I've got a new 58 inch Panasonic 4K HDR TVs and the games look breathtaking especially if modded with sweet fx/nexus. So you don't need an i7 or even an i5 to run games at very high resolution. The gpu is very important. Forget 16gig ram and ddr4 memory as well. Ddr3 is as fast, but just isn't as energy efficient.
There are too many macho myths about powerhouse games PC.
"Completely smoothly." Good one. And those benchmarks were paired with an 8-core i7 5960X at 4.4GHz, you won't be getting anywhere near the same level of performance with your massive CPU bottleneck.
GTA V is even a highly CPU-bound game as you can see here. I've played it on an old i7-920, and a Haswell i3 and i5 with the same graphics card on all 3 and the amount of stuttering and frame skipping on the slower CPUs was extremely noticeable, and that was only at 1080p.
DudleyGuy
10 Jun 16#18
I'd hope so, Doom was made in the 90's! Should be getting 1000fps on that
fishmaster
10 Jun 16#17
The people at the rumour mill are complete idiots.
Nexy
10 Jun 16#16
The rumor-mill says Skylake-level single thread performance, in an eight-core chip, with DDR4 support, at aggressive pricing. Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic, but that's what I'm hoping for. Although DigiTimes says "pushed back to next year". We'll see, but my prediction still stands.
Nexy
10 Jun 16#12
I'd expect to see more of these AMD deals coming up. AMD will launch the revolutionary (hopefully) for AMD "Zen" chips in a few months.
If they live up to expectations, they should deliver a massive boost in performance at a reasonable price point.
With a bit of luck, that'll also batter down the pricing of any old stock of AMD chips, and bring a load of mobo+CPU/HSF+DDR3 onto the second-hand market as the Red team update to Zen.
fishmaster to Nexy
10 Jun 161#15
I've never seen the word revolutionary used before when describing AMD Zen CPUs, all we really know is that Jim Keller designed the architecture and the expected performance is around Intel Haswell performance.
ST3123
10 Jun 16#3
Decent. I guess if you are coming from an old HDD only system the CPU and SSD would make it feel a lot faster.
Still the FX6300 is a VERY old CPU these days and wasn't even the top one when it was current (that was the 8 core FX8350/8370). I'd be interested to know how well it holds up these days considering AMD have been behind intel for a long time now on performance but the fact the current consoles both use AMD chips may allow them to claw back a bit of performance for gaming....
crstanley84 to ST3123
10 Jun 161#14
I have a 6300 , 8gb ram and an nvidia 670. Get a decent 50fps on medium on Doom
InAFalsetto
10 Jun 16#13
Get a interest free credit card. And stop messing around and just build a good Intel system.
arealmentalist
10 Jun 161#11
Had this chip on my primary pc running at 4.4 Ghz for over 2 years with a 212 EVO. Now it sits in my sisters pc for about a year and still is going strong. Good deal for those wanting to save on the cpu.
pitbullmern
10 Jun 162#7
had one of these running at 4.3ghz for over 2 years without issue.
spannerzone to pitbullmern
10 Jun 161#10
that's an impressive uptime. :stuck_out_tongue:
nekoangel
10 Jun 16#6
I'm still running a phenom 955 and it's fine. I'm tempted by this myself as I think this makes a good plex server cpu except the power consumption?
ando to nekoangel
10 Jun 16#9
Don't need anything near as powerful as this for a plex server, depending on the amount of users using it at one time anyway, I use a E4400 with 2gb of ram that serves around 7 people with no issues, but I am using a debian headless build of linux
tezray
10 Jun 16#8
picked one up second hand with motherboard and cooler for £30 few months ago it's ok went from a a8 5600k that was struggling with gta 5 it has made quite a difference good cpu but I would buy cheaper second hand
CHAOSEN3
10 Jun 16#5
The Piledriver series chips were pretty good at being overclocked too. My FX-6100 still runs at 4.2GHz without issue (Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO).
B3aver
10 Jun 16#4
I'm pretty sure it's still a decent cpu the fact my cpu is an old 8120 and plays latest games nicely as they're starting to use multi cores I think helps just waiting to find a cheap 8350/70 though hehe
BuzzDuraband
10 Jun 16#1
Insider9 to BuzzDuraband
10 Jun 161#2
Lol
Great deal if you want to be on AMD and the ssd is actually quite decent for average user
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Opening post
Stay on the path to glory with an AMD FX™ processor in your system.
AMD FX processors deliver the highest clocks and most cores you can get on a consumer desktop - plus more cache memory than comparably-priced competition.
The AMD FX processor is built from the company's 8th generation x86 CPU architecture based on over 40 years of silicon-crafting experience.
Specifications
CPU Model - AMD FX-6300
Socket - AMD AM3+
Cores - 6 Cores
CPU Clock (Base/Max Turbo) - 3.5/4.1GHz
Total Cache (L2 and L3) - 14MB
AMD Turbo Core - Yes
Unlocked - Yes
TDP - 95W
Retail Boxed
Latest comments (23)
SSD is a bit small but i suppose it could be loaded with the O/S and a few apps for speed and use a seperate HDD for storage and games.
Perfectly good CPU for the average desktop user and gamers on a budget like myself
There are too many macho myths about powerhouse games PC.
Witcher 3 maxed out on a factory overclocked 1080 at 4K = 51fps. 970 = 25fps.
GTA V. 1080 = 61fps at 4K, 970 = 27fps.
"Completely smoothly." Good one. And those benchmarks were paired with an 8-core i7 5960X at 4.4GHz, you won't be getting anywhere near the same level of performance with your massive CPU bottleneck.
GTA V is even a highly CPU-bound game as you can see here. I've played it on an old i7-920, and a Haswell i3 and i5 with the same graphics card on all 3 and the amount of stuttering and frame skipping on the slower CPUs was extremely noticeable, and that was only at 1080p.
If they live up to expectations, they should deliver a massive boost in performance at a reasonable price point.
With a bit of luck, that'll also batter down the pricing of any old stock of AMD chips, and bring a load of mobo+CPU/HSF+DDR3 onto the second-hand market as the Red team update to Zen.
Still the FX6300 is a VERY old CPU these days and wasn't even the top one when it was current (that was the 8 core FX8350/8370). I'd be interested to know how well it holds up these days considering AMD have been behind intel for a long time now on performance but the fact the current consoles both use AMD chips may allow them to claw back a bit of performance for gaming....
Great deal if you want to be on AMD and the ssd is actually quite decent for average user