How does the 8150 hold up today

[Himommies]

Browsing craigslist today and found a fx 8150 plus a nice together mobo for 150,I plan to use it to replace A8 7600.i have evreything else so how great of a idea is this

[Damascus]

It isn't good, I would recommend a sandy bridge i7 instead.  Maybe x58 if you can get it cheap.

[Himommies]

Just now, Damascus said:

It isn't good, I would recommend a sandy bridge i7 instead.  Maybe x58 if you can get it cheap.

In Canada,the chips are evreywhere but mobos are like 300 and quite rare

[kelvinhall05]

10 minutes ago, Himommies said:

In Canada,the chips are evreywhere but mobos are like 300 and quite rare

I snagged mine for $120 with an i7-950 and 16GB of RAM

[Himommies]

Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

I snagged mine for $120 with an i7-950 and 16GB of RAM

Is it really that far back

I can get a 950+Mobo for abou 160

[EPPHO]

Ryzen 3 and a decent mobo should be around 170$. Not much more expensive but a lot better performance

[Litruv]

I had an 8120fx, jesus christ it's not good for anything.

 

Upgraded twice since - 6600k, 7700k.

[PopsicleHustler]

Its not good. I'm running FX8350 overclocked to hell at 5.0 Ghz and it still struggles at everything. Waiting for my Ryzen bundle to arrive on Monday finally.

 

Better get i3 or Ryzen 3, you will get better performance.

[gaooo]

17 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

Its not good. I'm running FX8350 overclocked to hell at 5.0 Ghz and it still struggles at everything. Waiting for my Ryzen bundle to arrive on Monday finally.

 

Better get i3 or Ryzen 3, you will get better performance.

Which ryzen cpu did you get? I'm waiting for 2nd gen ryzen to come out in april personally before I upgrade to see what AMD has to offer this quarter.

[Himommies]

1 hour ago, frozeNNN said:

Ryzen 3 and a decent mobo should be around 170$. Not much more expensive but a lot better performance

Forgot to mention im in canada where DDR4 is 50 dollars for 4gbs

[PopsicleHustler]

8 hours ago, gaooo said:

Which ryzen cpu did you get? I'm waiting for 2nd gen ryzen to come out in april personally before I upgrade to see what AMD has to offer this quarter.

R5 1600, 6 cores 12 threads, got it with a decent discount on amazon for 130 euros. Got a nice B350 Tomahawk Arctic to do a small overclock to reach speeds of 1600x or maybe even higher, thankfully I got water cooler to go with it.

 

 I can't really wait until April because my FX8350 is on a verge of blowing up since it has been working on 5.0 Ghz for over a year now. And I have been getting some frequent system lock ups when doing heavy tasks like gaming.

 

[kelvinhall05]

1 hour ago, Himommies said:

Is it really that far back

I can get a 950+Mobo for abou 160

Decent deal. See if you can talk him down 30-40 bucks.