The AMD FX-6300 - Peak performance in cheap price! Hands on!

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The AMD FX-6300 - the best processor for game starters! If you were ever looking for a good performing processor in cheap price, then fx-6300 is your thing!

Lets give you an intro about it's features! A 6 core processor with each core of 3.5GHZ, the fx-6300 costs only $95! One of the most common and recommended processor has the ability for superb overclocking and is great for gaming chops! If you're a new bee, better buy this cause this will definitely not disappoint you! This will definitely be a part of budget gaming CPU's.



We've even managed to push the FX-6300 over 5GHz and had it stably posting benchmark scores. I did have it booting at 5.1GHz, but we couldn't stop it falling over under the rigours of x264.

Part of that is down to the fact that it's a very cool-running chip - at stock speeds it's running at 28°C under load. Sure the temperature starts getting rather toasty under your CPU cooler, but the performance figures take a huge jump too.

The multi-threaded performance easily eclipses a stock Core i5, and almost manages to do the same in single-threaded performance too. It's not far off in terms of gaming, with our low-end Batman: AC scores showing 155fps for the FX-6300 versus 164FPS for the stock-clocked i5-3570K.

You will need a massive cooler and quality mobo to get to that sort of overclock, but it shows how competitive the Piledriver chip can be made. Especially considering it's only just over £100.

That said you don't really need to have an overclocking mobo to push the Core i5 up over 4.5GHz and gaming performance will quickly outstrip the AMD chip. Still, as a budget alternative, the FX-6300 is a very capable CPU offering decent multi-threaded performance, even at stock speed for use in productivity-related tasks and improved gaming performance too.