A10 5800K vs FX 6100

Hey All,

I am retiring one of my servers, which used an FX 6100 cpu.

Back when I built my gaming PC, I used an APU to keep the price down. I have since gotten a 660Ti GPU, but it still runs with the APU.

Is it worth my time to rebuild the machine with the FX chip, or will the performance difference be negligible?

Thoughts? Thanks all!

Should be worth it, The 5800K is slower than the FX 4000 series.

You could sell your A10 5800K with motherboard and easily have enough money for a good 970A motherboard + a decent CPU cooler.

If you don't mind re-installing windows then jumping from a 5800K to an overclocked FX 6100 should be a good jump (most people will tell you 8000 series or bust but there's nothing wrong in what is essentially a free FX 6100).

You would get pretty significant FPS jumps in games by switching

At single core it appears the 5800K works better, while multitasking/using all cores the 6100 is better:

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-FX-6100-vs-AMD-A10-5800K

If I may suggest, don't get neither of those two, either go with 760K or FX6300

Hello.

Judging by what I can read from one of the best review for this situation (it has FX6100 too in the comparisons), you can have from -10% to +30% performance depending the situation.

FX6100 was the 1st generation Bulldozer which was one of the biggest failures in CPUs history (and I am following PC hardware industry for like 17 years) that made AMD to retire from the high-end CPU market. If it was Piledriver like FX63xx it would be great, but with FX6100 it depends clearly in what programmes you will use.

So its more like a side upgrade than a real upgrade.

If you plan playing newer games (2013 and after that can utilize more than 4 cores), then maybe worth a shot.

If you play older games like 2012 and before, then stay with A10 5800K.