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jason387
No i bought that psu separately. Will the fx 6300 overclocked equal the locked i5 in gaming?
Yes an overclocked fx6300 will equal a locked i5 if you can go up to 4.4 to 4.7ghz.
But you are increasing the power consumption and TDP with that, plus you need to buy aftermarket cooler.
So in the long run, you might actually be spending more money with electricity compared to using a low TDP i5.
A locked i5 is about $50 to $60 more than the FX6300 depending on your country.
Since your focus is mainly gaming, the i5 is stronger here.
If you mainly do rendering and video encoding, go for the FX.
I have an FX6100 and i5 2310. The i5 beats my FX by 15 FPS in almost every game while using the same HD6850.
I can assume this will also happen on FX6300 VS i5 3330.
The only reason Im using the FX as my main rig is because I encode videos daily. Its where I actually saw the FX beat the i5
after testing several video projects for a few days.
Although I think this is mainly because my FX supported faster ram speed.
My i5 only has DDR3 1333 while the FX has DDR3 1600.
I dont remember the exact settings but I think the FX6100 was at 4.5 Ghz and i5 was at stock 2.9Ghz during the tests.