Upgrading & new AMD processors

[Devildog83]

If you want to stay with AMD the 8320/8350 are very nice chips as long as you have a good board to go with it. The Sabertooth, Crosshair v Formula Z and Giga UD7 are all great overclockers, I prefer the Asus boards just because they are easier to overclock for middle of the road to extpert overclocker. If you want to save a few bucks the M5A99x Evo pro is a good board too. Make sure you get a board with a 990 chipset as anything less lacks some overclockability. Stay away from the UD3's as they have serious issue's, I think I may have heard the newest version might have solved some of the problems but I would not chance it.

 

  Just a note, my wife has a Phenom quad core and my FX 4100 stomps it, yes in part because I could run at 4.6 Ghz with a $20 air cooler but still the Phenoms were great but they are passe for todays uses unless you don't do anything extreme. They don't do horrible but they really lack some compared to what's available for not so expensive now.

[slasher0161]

If you want to stay with AMD the 8320/8350 are very nice chips as long as you have a good board to go with it. The Sabertooth, Crosshair v Formula Z and Giga UD7 are all great overclockers, I prefer the Asus boards just because they are easier to overclock for middle of the road to extpert overclocker. If you want to save a few bucks the M5A99x Evo pro is a good board too. Make sure you get a board with a 990 chipset as anything less lacks some overclockability. Stay away from the UD3's as they have serious issue's, I think I may have heard the newest version might have solved some of the problems but I would not chance it.

Just a note, my wife has a Phenom quad core and my FX 4100 stomps it, yes in part because I could run at 4.6 Ghz with a $20 air cooler but still the Phenoms were great but they are passe for todays uses unless you don't do anything extreme. They don't do horrible but they really lack some compared to what's available for not so expensive now.

So your fx was at 4.6 but what was the phenom at? I find it hard to believe even at remotely similar clocks the fx would stomp it.

[Demonking]

I think the phenom is bottlenecked in the new games, especially in crysis 3 with everything on low without aa I'm getting nearly 40 fps at 1080p that gtx 760 should do more than that and at 4,2 GHz the cpu hits 60 C with a hyper 212 plus

Damn on low settings i get more than that with medium to high settings but i have an I5 4670k same GPU as you get the 8320 dont bother with 8350