I3-6300 vs FX-8120 in BeamNG?

Hello,
My PC is quite sh*t except for the GPU(GTX 970) and Case(NZXT S340 black)
I want to upgrade my CPU(or mobo and ram) because I am getting sh*t FPS( 17fps in some scenarious and slideshow if there are 2 vehicles spawned)
FX-4170(4.2 GHz stock, maxes at 4.5 OC because 4 phase mobo, equal to Pentium G4500)
Do I go with I3-6300 or FX-8120(83xx not supported, 4 phase power delivery- GB GA-970A-DS3 1.1)
I3 wins in every new game but FX has more cores=> better at BeamNG.
Which one is better?

 

i3-6300 will absolutely destroy an 8120. Much better for BeamNG too - the 8120 can theoretically handle more vehicles, but doesn't have the single threaded performance to run single vehicles very well in the first place.

 

Thanks

 

I don't get how vishera CPUs are not supported because of the 4 phase desing, that would apply to every 125W CPU (Including bulldozer).

I just checked your motherboard and it is "supported": http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=4297 Although I wouldn't use a 125W CPU on that motherboard, it might throttle at stock voltage forget OCing it. xd

Go for the I3, but pick the 6100, It performs 3% worse while costing 25% less.

 

It only supports the low clocked 8300 and 8310 and the "E" versions of 8320 and 8370(low clock speeds)
And if I was to get that, I would be better off getting an i7 3770 for my secondary PC(P67 Extreme4, Pentium G860, 8GB ram)

 

You really should have stated that you have a 1155 motherboard in the first post! xd. I would go after an used sandy/Ivy bridge I5/I7 instead of picking a skylake i3.

 

The Skylake i3 will still be better. It's all about architecture. It'll be more efficient and extremely upgradable.

 

No

http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/490/Intel_Core_i3_i3-6100_vs_Intel_Core_i5_i5-3570K.html

Unless you want to use the iGPU, it's not worth it. Not to mention that those are synthetic benchmark, in games the difference is much smaller.

Techspot has a good review where you can compare it vs the i5 4430 (That actually performs a bit worse than the 3570): http://www.techspot.com/review/1087-best-value-desktop-cpu/page4.html

This is been going on since haswell, many people upgraded their sandy bridge/Ivy bridge platforms to Haswell (""Coz broadwell was going to be the next boom performance!!"") and well... The 5775c even performs worse than the 4790K in some cases and to make it worse, It can only be used in a z/h97 motherboard that came long after many bought their h87/h81/z87, etc motherboard xd, there you have your boom performance guys xd.

Really, never, NEVER change to another socket hoping a miracle because Intel is a monopoly and they wont bother to improve their next generation so much, unless AMD finally manages to do something...

 

I also play World of Tanks and that game uses 1 core, so I need the single-threaded performance of Skylake(and by the way Skylake has a feature called "reverse Hyper-Threading").
And I am not that comfortable investing money in a dead platform and buying a CPU from a random guy(I have bought a dead CPU- a Celeron G530, intended as a cheaper option of the G860 that's there now)
For double the price of an I5-3570k(150 euro) I get a Z170 Extreme4, 8/16gb DDR4 ! and a I3 that's almost the same performance.
Yes, that's not quite the better option but in the future I will be able to upgrade to a CPU that's much, much better than the 3570k and even 3770k. Whereas, if I was to choose to upgrade the 1155 rig, I would already be with the top CPU for the socket and I would need to upgrade to 1151(or newer) in a few years.

But for now I am not going to buy anything, I am waiting for Zen and Skylake price-drop.

 

I really wonder how you're that confident that there will be an upgrade much better than the 3770.

 

Skylake is about 25% faster than Ivy Bridge. 6700K is also clocked higher. About 30-40% better than a 3770. Non K 6700 is still much better.

 

13% is the single thread performance: http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/435/Intel_Core_i7_i7-3770_vs_Intel_Core_i7_i7-6700.html much better would be the diference between vishera and ivy bridge. 65%. And Intel wont launch a new CPU on 1151 that better, that would destroy the sells of their next socket.

20% multithread performance with skylake turbo .1 GHz higher, and that 0.1 GHz difference translates to a +3% performance difference (Compare the i3 6100 vs the 6300 that both have a.1 GHz difference).

Yeah, that's finally an improvement considering is a 4 Year old CPU... Although if serious multithreaded performance is what you're aiming for, then take a look at the 12 thread 5820K, although be prepared to pay for a 2011 motherboard. xd

In the 6700K, the 500 MHz boost didn't change single thread performance: http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/510/Intel_Core_i7_i7-3770_vs_Intel_Core_i7_i7-6700K.html

Kinda unfair compare two archiquetures at different clock speed, well... at least Intel didn't ban No-K OC on 1155.