User Query : THE DESIRED COMPUTER CONFIGURATION

I’m planning to buy a computer. Please suggest whether the following configuration is good?

Processor - AMD FX (tm) - 6300 Six-Core; Memory - 8GB; Hard Drive - 1TB; Graphics Card - NIVIDIA GTX 750 Ti

—Abhishek K

Yes, it sounds good, but certainly not top tier, especially if you are a gaming enthusiast. The FX-6300 is better for normal tasks, but not for gaming. Very few games today make use of more than 4 cores of a CPU. DirectX12 early test data seems to redistribute core usage, and the CPU may do better later in the year, but in some games, it will lower the frame rate versus Intel i5’s for example. If you are buying it for computing needs and to run some light applications, then it can be a good choice. Otherwise, you may consider Intel i5 or i7, with Nvidia GeForce GTX 980ti for better gaming and performance.

— Ashok Pandey

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