FM2+ or AM3+ Which is best

[adamf154]

Hi there im looking to build a new system later in the year and im wondering which is best fm2+ or am3+.

i have quite a old system and want to be able to play the latest games, although i can still play some of the newer games at the moment

i had been looking at an fm2+ motherboard and a processor from the amd apu A4/6/8/10 family i would have bought what was best at the time of buying but i was looking at the newest games and came across one that i liked the look of - Quantum Break and the minimum reqs are CPU - FX-6300, Windows 10, Geforce 760 or Radeon R7 260.

So by the looks of it and looking at the requiremnts on the Game Debate Website that i would have bought above, the game wouldn't play on that system but i found out that the FX CPU is from the AM3+ CPU Family and would be more expensive to build that than the one i was going to.

So what im wondering is, is fm2+ much different from AM3+ and is there an fm2+ equivalent of the am3+ FX-6300 CPU. and which is actually best FM2+ or AM3+

Thanks in advance for any help

[sum_guy]

I'm using an Asus mainboard with an FX processor and it's great

[turk690]

Hi there im looking to build a new system later in the year and im wondering which is best fm2+ or am3+.

Have you considered using Intel chipsets and CPUs?

[adamf154]

Hi there im looking to build a new system later in the year and im wondering which is best fm2+ or am3+.

Have you considered using Intel chipsets and CPUs?

I have never looked into intel so dont know much about them all my pc's have been amd

[flashandpan007]

Take an Intel, I personally had many AMDs in the past, but since for many years now I only take Intel. At the moment I have a 4930K and I don't want to upgrade in the near future ...

[usually_quiet]

The FX-6300 w/AM3+ is a little better for running programs that can take advantage multiple cores. To beat it for single-threaded performance, you would need one of the best A10 APU, which makes an FX-6300 at about $105 (US) the less expensive choice.

The best FM2+ A10 APUs do a little better than the FX-6300 with programs that only use one core and memory-intensive applications. However the best quad core A10s, like the A10 7870K and A10 7870K, also cost more than the FX-6300. A graphics card is recommended for the game you want to play, so the APU's built-in graphics are not going to do you much good.

An Intel G3470 would use less power than an FX-6300, is close to the same price as an FX-6300, and has better single-threaded performance. The Intel G3470 has worse multi-threaded performance than the FX-6300 since it is only a dual core, and does worse with memory-intensive applications.

The FX-6300 is probably the best budget choice if someone intends to use a video card.

[KarMa]

I have a FX-6300 on my AM3+ motherboard, along with 16GB of DDR3. Cost around $240 for the CPU/MOBO/RAM. Very happy. Also the FX-6300 supports quite a bit of assembler instructions, which are heavily used in video encoding.

It does produce a bit of heat, so I tend to underclock it when I'm not doing anything, and I'm using the stock fan.