I7-870 or FX-6100 (Gaming PC to Travel With)

[Barry_McCockinner]

Ok, basically im building a cheap pc to bring around with me to game while I work away.

I have both of these processors but im not sure about which one to use.
The i7-870 is a LGA1156 socket and motherboards are getting hard to find
The Fx-6100 is a AM3+ which could give me an upgrade to an Fx-8350 later on.

But from looking at benchmarks the i7-870 with a bit of an overclock (maybe Oc it to 4GHz) isnt far behind the Fx-8350

What do you guys think I should do ?

I have a GPU (7870) and SSD and everything else I need just need to decide on which CPU will be better so I can get myself a MOBO and ram.

Im mostly gonna be playing ArmA 3 and Farcry 4 and BF4 and maybe some World Of Tanks.
Thanks

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Although I prefer Intel for gaming, in this case AMD would be the wiser choice. 1156 is a dead socket and the power comsuption is almost subpar with the most hungry AMD's.
While is started the line of the successful Core processors, the first generation in specs falls quite a lot behind what there was from the second generation.
Problem is that both are quite old. By AMD it would be wiser to go for the newer FM2, AM3+ stays because AMD has simply trouble to introduce something new.

Personally if I where in your shoes, I would get a cheap 1150 board with a Pentium G3258. That would wash both your CPUs down completly and have a half of their power consumption. Later you could upgrade to i5 or i7 haswell.

[Barry_McCockinner]

Yeah I hear you and I did look at that Processor to buy, Only thing is I have Both these CPU's all ready and blew most of my budget on a 4690K and a 970 for my home pc. So My budget really is only limited to around 150ish bucks for now.

[Barry_McCockinner]

Alright Pal, I just got to find a damn MOBO now they are hard to find. I reckon 80to100 bucks will get me a mobo and ram

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Thats why I said AMD, there are still a lot of AM3 mainboards made. Even if you manage to get a 1156 board from some old stock, it will probably lack things like USB3, SATA III, UEFI BIOS.
Neither one or the other will become some high-end machine anyways.

Just don't get MSI, they have a lot VRM failures by the high wattage AMD boards. Gigabyte should be a much safer bet.

[_I_]

the first gen i7 will beat the fx
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-870-vs-AMD-FX-6100
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/316/AMD_FX-Series_FX-6100_vs_Intel_Core_i7_i7-870.html

alot better core performance, and better multithread
if you can get a 1156 board for cheap, do it
http://www.pricewatch.com/price/motherboards/socket_1156

with the fx, you need a 970-990 board to get the most out of it
putting it in a 700 series mobo, will nerf the performance to the aii/pii cpu