FX 8350 Questions

[ajhakra]

Just now I have the FX-4100 and am planning on upgrading to an FX-8350 but would like to get some information first(upgrading due to a bottleneck with the 280X). I don't plan on moving to Intel as that would require me to also buy in a new MOBO.

First of all should I get the FX-8350 or the 8320? Reading about online i've seen a few people say its better to get an 8320 and overclock it (If i was to do that it would be with the Hyper 212 evo cooler). Is this true?

Second, should I wait for new AMD CPUs(and what is the likeliness of them not being AM3+?) or will the 8350 last me for atleast 3 years if I upgrade?

 

 

Any information is much appreciated and thanks in advance.

[Shroomster]

I would personally go with the "new" 8320E for the reduced TDP. And yes, the processor should last for 3 years. But you never know for sure.

[the jolly roger]

you can get stronger OCs on the 8350, but the 8320 is more than enough, very overclockable CPU, with a CM hyper 212 evo you can hit 4.5 easy. Id buy the 8320, because it has better price/performance

 

I dont know if amd plans on making a new socket, but the 8320 is a beast CPU and will last you many years even if you upgrade to even stronger GPU, no bottlenecks will happen.

 

Edit: as Shroomstar says above, yes the 8320E is just as good as normal 8320, with lower power consuption (that has damned amd FX CPUs for years)

[Razzaa]

Just now I have the FX-4100 and am planning on upgrading to an FX-8350 but would like to get some information first(upgrading due to a bottleneck with the 280X). I don't plan on moving to Intel as that would require me to also buy in a new MOBO.

First of all should I get the FX-8350 or the 8320? Reading about online i've seen a few people say its better to get an 8320 and overclock it (If i was to do that it would be with the Hyper 212 evo cooler). Is this true?

Second, should I wait for new AMD CPUs(and what is the likeliness of them not being AM3+?) or will the 8350 last me for atleast 3 years if I upgrade?

Any information is much appreciated and thanks in advance.

Depending on how far you want to OC a 83xx a 212 evo wont take you very far. Anything above 4.6ghz will get very hot really quick. How far you can OC also has a lot to do with what chipset your mobo is. The VRM's will get very warm and if you plan on going above 1.4 vcore i would suggest putting a fan on the back side of your mobo or blowing directly on the vrm heatsinks.

[Sintezza]

which mobo do you have right now?

[Goowpea]

I have 8350 and i OC it by raising the bus frequency to a 4,5 GHz per core. There's still room to OC the CPU itself but for me it's more than enough. It's rock solid. It can get pretty hot though cause while I'm streaming it can get to around 75 degrees Celsius. I don't know about the 8320, but I can recommend you 8350 wholeheartedly

[ajhakra]

which mobo do you have right now?

I currently have the Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 mobo

Depending on how far you want to OC a 83xx a 212 evo wont take you very far. Anything above 4.6ghz will get very hot really quick. How far you can OC also has a lot to do with what chipset your mobo is. The VRM's will get very warm and if you plan on going above 1.4 vcore i would suggest putting a fan on the back side of your mobo or blowing directly on the vrm heatsinks.

I dont plan to overclock a lot just a little.

I would personally go with the "new" 8320E for the reduced TDP. And yes, the processor should last for 3 years. But you never know for sure.

Looking around some more i've found the FX-8370E on NewEgg UK for the same price as the FX-8350. Should I go for the 8370E instead?

[i_build_nanosuits]

I currently have the Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 mobo

you need a new motherboard for the FX 8 core CPU that is at least on the 970 chipset with at least a 6+2 power phase design and heatsinked VRM's...your current motherboard is nowhere near good enough to handle an FX 8 core chip at stock, let alone overclocking it..., so i'd suggest moving to an intel i5 for much better performance, specialy in regards to gaming:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4430 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($169.99 @ Amazon)

Motherboard: Asus H81M-K Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($52.99 @ Newegg)

Total: $222.98

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-05 10:20 EDT-0400

 

If for some weird reasons you really want to stick with AMD and get the FX-83XX CPU this is the cheapest that will do the job, but be advised this CPU is a powerhog and it will not perform as well as a core i5 haswell CPU, nowhere near as good i should say:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor  ($139.98 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($84.99 @ Newegg)

Total: $224.97

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-05 10:22 EDT-0400

 

If you don't trust me on this search for some of my earlier posts on this forum i did owned this exact AMD FX-8320 and ggabyte motherboard it was running at 4.6ghz and it was still much slower than a core i5.

[D3MON]

I currently have the Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 mobo

I dont plan to overclock a lot just a little.

Looking around some more i've found the FX-8370E on NewEgg UK for the same price as the FX-8350. Should I go for the 8370E instead?

depending what you want the cpu for your current board should be good for a 6300 with an overclock (ive had those boards a few times, they're great for the price) your board can take and run an fx8 but dont expect it to turbo up to 4.2ghz or whatever undervolting and being at 3.5ghz with an 8320 like mine is atainable, but for £65ish you can get an msi 970 gaming with sli/.crossfire 19pin usb3 headers and an 8+2 power phase, has got me to 5ghz (suck it anyone that says 8350 is better) and 4.7 daily capable though 4.5 is more "rounded" and i'm using an tenc h620 but a hyper 212 would be just as good.

the "e" models are the same chips in-every-way- with just lower base clocks and a little voltage drop boom 95w tdp, they overclock the same too but considering an 8320 is about £95-105 and an 8370e is usually a bit higher..dont bother.

maybe you could run an 8320E in your board but the any added expense (if there is any) wouldnt justify it.

1. get an fx6300 if you must but single threaded games will only be about 15% faster and multi threaded games wont make any difference, you'll get more performance in anythign that maxes-out your cores though (transcoding etc) or

2. sell your current board cpu and ram and get what i have in my sig

then you can either get the intel 4460 which will be 60% faster in single threaded games than what you have now..(actually in that case just get a pentium-k), and no difference in multi threaded games

http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page6.html

or you can get an fx8320 msi 970 gaming etc (ssd?) and while in single threaded games it wont be as fast as the intel (120fps vs 100fps) youll get more multi threaded performance in tasks that max out all cpu cores, i havent seen any i3's/i5's for £100 that can get 720 daily in cinebench or other threaded tasks.

question is are you actually being held back? if your pc is "good enough" for now, just save and buy something with the saved cash when what you have isnt enough.