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Sure, let's call it the PC.

Lol. Did you mean elaborate? 

So as the topic name states, is the AMD FX-8350 CPU enough for gaming?
I have found many people on this forum bashing AMD CPUs very hard, some of them recommend buying i3's instead since within the price of a FX-8320 you can get an i3-4430 according to pcpartpicker.com.
Why is that? Are AMD's really that bad? Many people suggesting that clearly had no idea of how these CPUs perform in real life, so in order to try to convince them that they're not that bad in games I put screenshots of several games with the same hardware monitor using Afterburner.
There are places in these games when my FX-8350 overclocked to 4,5gHz reached over 90% of usage, considering it's raw performance is on par with i5-4690k imagine how it would run on an i3-4430.
I'm not saying that the FX-8320/50 are the best choices for everyone, I'm just trying to show that these CPUs are definitely a choice for the money not only for video rendering etc etc but also for everyday usage. I agree that i5-4690k for example is a better CPU, no doubt.
They claimed screenshots are not reliable. I agreed, decided to make a gameplay video especially for them, featuring several games to be as reliable as possible.
For example in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt I picked the most CPU intensive location there is in this entire game. Novigrad.




Note: This is my first video, I'm a complete noob in terms of video editing, but that's not important, the content is what's important here. Also don't even look at my shitty skill in these games, it's irrelevant.
In the GPU row in hardware monitor there's: Temperature, GPU Load, Fan Speed, and core clock, below GPU memory frequency and VRAM usage.

Also, my resolution is 1920x1200, it's around 10% more vertical screen space and 11% more pixels than in standard 1920x1080.

I overclocked my GTX970 only slightly to get better performance but not too far to make the results as reliable as possible.
Software used: For FPS & hardware counter - MSI Afterburner. For recording of the video, Nvidia ShadowPlay.
The recording itself could take a few frames per second, but it doesn't matter.

Specs:
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster T240HD 1920x1200p
CPU: AMD FX-8350 @4,5gHz 1.360V
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
RAM: 2x 8GB HyperX Fury DDR3 1866mHz CL10
GPU: MSI GTX 970 4GB Gaming 100 ME Limited Edition @1410mHz core clock
SSD: Samsung 850EVO 120GB
HDDs: 2x Western Digital Blue 1TB 7200RPM
CPU Cooler: SilentiumPC Grandis XE1236v2
PSU: Chieftec CFT-600-14CS 600W
Case: Zalman GS1000 Full Tower Case
OS: Windows 10 Professional 64 bit

Games tested in order of testing:
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
- Assassins' Creed: Unity
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Call of Duty: Ghosts
- Tomb Raider
- Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2

Tell me what do you guys think, give me your opinions about both the performance of this CPU and about how reliable is my video, perhaps I can improve something to make the result more valid as possible.

There are a few stutters of video in here, but they're due to me editing, compressing and uploading the video poorly and in crappy software (Windows Movie Maker and Handbrake), as I mentioned I'm not familiar with this stuff so be considerate.
The stutters are not there in the original video, for those who doubt it I can try to upload it for download, but it's around 500-600mb and my internet is crap (less than 1mbit/s up)
but it is possible if really necessary.

P.S. I apologize if there are many grammar/spelling mistakes in my post, I'm from Poland, not a native speaker.

@ I promised to make a video so I can prove to you how the performance really is, hope you see it's not as bad as you thought it would be =)

A 970 would be insane so I could give it to a friend who's been trying to get into pc gaming but only owns a basic pre built pc.

I opened Pandora and this was the first song that started playing in my list. A great jam to get pumped for the weekend  B)
 

I ordered their ear buds a couple weeks back for 90% off and they were horrible but they have some new ones and looking a the pictures they don't have the same cheap plastic inside as the others so I might give them one more shot.

I've seen this card for $244 on Newegg lol.

ghost sucked

Neat
 
But I would like it to be the other way around, stream from your PC to the xbox in the living room.

Yah noo I'm not preordering. I'll buy it once I know it's a good port. 

Top 4 of the hi-resolution photos

Eye sweet potato hexagram cheese walnut target clown. Huh?  :huh:

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the case is Black and White for the moment
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wtf is cherry mx yellow

The gpu's for sure. I would get a 980 or 970. Also I would get a better CPU cooler and ditch the sound card, 

some stuff from VGHS comes to mind, like the monitors they're using during FPS matches  

Sounds like a terrible investment and waste of time, not to be a buzzkill or anything.

PUT THIS IN MONITORS

I was thinking the same
 
this is not good for people who bought the XboxONE already, they will be pretty angry

I see what you did there 
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