It was a solid choice for its era, offering decent performance and value for the price.
It was a solid choice for its era, offering decent performance and value for the price.
At that time, AMD didn't offer strong CPUs for gaming; they were mainly suited for tasks involving multiple threads.
The fx-8300 is what i'm currently using (oc'd to 4.3 all the time), needs a good motherboard and a 990fx chipset to be worth it + faster ram (1866 with low timings). Overclocking needs a good vram which is pretty rare for am3+ sockets. All power saving features need to be turned off as the cycle time lost waiting for the chip to ram up to boost clock is a big hit on performance. And while everyone says they run hot. Fx 8 chips don't like running over about 70c and need decent cooling. My experience is also while you can try to push the all core clock above 4.5-4.7ghz, the performance return is laughable. All that done, on decent hardware (not top line but decent) comparative performance to today is kinda meh at best, pretty shit at worst. https://www.amazon.co.uk/ADMI-CPU-Mother...=1-10&th=1 That Ryzen 3300 combo with mobo and ram @ 240 pound will small it out of the park. The old fx chips might be cheap, but finding compatible secondhand hardware that was of decent quality (most was pretty crap due to AMD's market share) to use the chips in a worthwhile way is rather expensive. Fun to mess with at an enthusiast, for actual use waste of time and money
I wouldn't recommend the 4100 anymore, as they faced several challenges like media stutter and other issues. My 4100 would handle that, but after installing a Vishera chip (4300) the problems disappeared. Most Zambezi chips I've heard about have these same issues. Still, even the 4100 is enjoyable to experiment with and customize. Place it on the right board with proper cooling, and you'll love seeing what you can achieve. It's up to you.
FX-4100, 6100 & 8100 suffered due to lack of optimization for the new architecture. By around 4300, 6300 & 8300 improvements appeared, but games didn't gain traction with multi-core processing until after 2014, and even then, few were tuned for emulation. Notable exceptions included the Battlefield series, and the FX-8350 can still run Battlefield V at playable frame rates with low latency RAM and an OC up to 4.4GHz or higher.