Budget gaming processor

Is the AMD Phenom X2 B59 3.4 ghz worth while for a budget gaming pc these days, alot of the stuff i see on it is outdated

>Sup Forums is NOT your consumer review site

It's worthless as a dual core. You can unlock them to a full quad core, but there's no guarantee that the disabled cores will actually work or be stable.

A quad core Phenom II is still a decent enough gaymen chip for most purposes and a hex core Phenom II will run just about anything fine. I've been using a 1090T whilst between CPUs and have been very impressed with it. There are only a few gaymes where it can't deliver 60fps.

Buy a a10 7890k faggot. Cpu plus gpu. Plays shit decent in 1080p

nah

just wait for zen

No such thing. You'll be upgrading the GPU far more often since games are not CPU bound. Get an i5 k series and a mid range gpu
When you have enough money upgrade the GPU
Doing the opposite is a mistake since more often than not you need to upgrade the motherboard to upgrade the CPU and that's basically an entire new computer


But for a one and done console replacement ID go with the 6300 paired with a 380

I was able to play MGSV downsampled with an 1100t comfortably enough, CPU bottlenecking vidya-wise really only hits noticible walls when you're emulating and/or going overboard on certain settings, and if you're budget-minded as it is, you're not gonna be doing that

Get an X4 though, 2 cores won't be enough, and not every mobo or CPU is created equal when it comes to successful unlocking

You guys say "budget build" but never specify what the budget is. Get an APU for the best value under $450.

Okay as this thread is here, and I'm not as much of an asshole as OP to make my own consumer service thread.

what is good CPU/Mobo for 200bux? I have all other parts, my 2600k's memory controller died.

>games are not CPU bound

This is a dumb generalisation. Lots of games are CPU-bound when you're not using the latest high end Intel CPU. A lot of AAA shitbusters like GTA V require a monster CPU when maxed out. Far Cry 4 sees massive gains even going from a 4790K to a 6700K, let alone anything below that. Strategy games like Total War are also massively reliant on CPU power.

There are some that are CPU-bound even WITH the latest and greatest. A 4790K at 4.6GHz won't net you a locked 60fps in WoW for example. I had one, along with a 980 Ti, and still dropped to ~50fps in Ashran.

Once you get down into AMD chips, many things will be limited by the CPU. Even a relatively average-looking game like Dark Souls III drops down to the mid-40s in certain areas with the 1090T at 4GHz that I'm currently using (a chip which is every bit as good as the 6300 you recommended clock for clock). Yet in other games like Dragon Age: Inquisition that use all six cores better, it doesn't restrict my GPU at all.

It varies from game to game and often even from location to location within a game.