Gaming CPU

[duriel]

moving from amd (with the same motherboard you have) to intel i can tell you my 8320 @ 4.5ghz was not bottlenecking my r9 290 in the games i play

 

that being said overall performance & versatility is much much higher with intel, so many features. i'm also glad i get to see the actual temperature of my cpu now.

[Zottabyte]

moving from amd (with the same motherboard you have) to intel i can tell you my 8320 @ 4.5ghz was not bottlenecking my r9 290 in the games i play

 

that being said overall performance & versatility is much much higher with intel, so many features. i'm also glad i get to see the actual temperature of my cpu now.

Thanks what FPS were you getting in most games with that rig liek AAA games?

[harrynowl]

Well you'll probably be able to play most of your games, if you're looking to go 120/144Hz you've shot yourself in the foot and if you enjoy MMOs and ARMA then you're also in a spot of bother.

[WaitForMeImOnDialUp]

yes dude the 8350 with a 290 will play 95% of games perfectly fine ultra settings 60fps and higher with no problems.

 

the only games that give amd trouble are flight simulator-x from 2006, starcraft from 2009,total war rome 2 (who honestly plays this piece of crap?) and old games from direct x9 that uses one or two cores . as far as current gen games it does fantastic.

 

it does struggle with arma but thats cause arma is poorly optimized just like ubisoft games.arma is a shit game that is easily replacable with bf4..which is awesome.

[Zottabyte]

Well you'll probably be able to play most your games, if you're lucky to go 120/144Hz you've shot yourself in the foot and if you enjoy MMOs and ARMA then you're also in a spot of bother.

No i dont really play MMO's, ARMA meh maybe but I mostly playm BF, Dragon age, farcry, Counter strike, TF2, minecraft, witcher III when it comes out, skyrim and so on not really into the MMO's

[duriel]

Thanks what FPS were you getting in most games with that rig liek AAA games?

 

in bioshock infinite with stock clocks on my gpu & 4.5ghz on my 8320, i was getting anywhere from 90 to 220+ fps

honestly i don't play lot of aaa games (i play one to two games at a time actually) but if your cpu isn't maxing out in usage on a single core, you'll be within a small % of performance of an intel cpu.

 

tl;dr: don't worry about performance with your 8350, your r9 290 will perform like it does in all the benchmarks you've seen, minus games like arma etc where single threaded performance really comes in handy.

 

 

No i dont really play MMO's, ARMA meh maybe but I mostly playm BF, Dragon age, farcry, Counter strike, TF2, minecraft, witcher III when it comes out, skyrim and so on not really into the MMO's 

 

 

i'll respond to this too- you're fine.

[Zottabyte]

yes dude the 8350 with a 290 will play 95% of games perfectly fine ultra settings 60fps and higher with no problems.

the only games that give amd trouble are flight simulator-x from 2006, starcraft from 2009,total war rome 2 (who honestly plays this piece of crap?) and old games from direct x9 that uses one or two cores . as far as current gen games it does fantastic.

Thanks dude Thats great to hear never play simultor's and had bad experience with Blizzard in the past from WoW days so I think ill be fine

in bioshock infinite with stock clocks on my gpu & 4.5ghz on my 8320, i was getting anywhere from 90 to 220+ fps

honestly i don't play lot of aaa games (i play one to two games at a time actually) but if your cpu isn't maxing out in usage on a single core, you'll be within a small % of performance of an intel cpu.

tl;dr: don't worry about performance with your 8350, your r9 290 will perform like it does in all the benchmarks you've seen, minus games like arma etc where single threaded performance really comes in handy.

i'll respond to this too- you're fine.

Thanks Should be good then :lol:

[harrynowl]

No i dont really play MMO's, ARMA meh maybe but I mostly playm BF, Dragon age, farcry, Counter strike, TF2, minecraft, witcher III when it comes out, skyrim and so on not really into the MMO's

I'm not honestly sure about half of those games as I'm not that big a gamer, but I'd imagine they'd run pretty well. Other than Skyrim which is single threaded and is coded in x87 (which is ancient) and AMDs are known to struggle there a bit. But they'll all be playable I'd imagine.

[SteveGrabowski]

Hey all, so I have bought the AMD fx8350 and am waiting on my r9 290 Tri-X. People have been saying that AMD's FX chip line is really old and your games will be unplayable with bottlenecks and you should of gone for intel blah blah. Please, please when you comment try not to be biased over intel or AMD as it really dosen't help, I am looking to play my games and sometimes stream them and I was wondering would i be able to Play most games at ultra 60+ fps or 50+ fps with this rig:

CPU: FX8350 4GHZ

GPU: Sapphire radeon r9 290 Tri-X

Mobo: Gigabyte 970A-UD3P

RAM: 8GB corsair vengeance 1600mhz

PSU: corsair cx750m

Please once again, no fanboy comments as all will be ignored. I know that intel has better perfomance in there i5 lines than amd FX's but all I want to know is that will I be able to run games smoothly at 50+ (most games) ultra preset?

thanks

I don't know shit about streaming, but FX-8350 + a top R9 290 should be plenty for gaming at 50 FPS for most games. Dying Light and Total War Attila will bring an FX-8350 to its knees, but you should be alright in most games.

http://gamegpu.ru/test-video-cards/igry-2014-goda-protiv-protsessorov-test-gpu.html

I'm not honestly sure about half of those games as I'm not that big a gamer, but I'd imagine they'd run pretty well. Other than Skyrim which is single threaded and is coded in x87 (which is ancient) and AMDs are known to struggle there a bit. But they'll all be playable I'd imagine.

Skyrim seems pretty evenly spread over 4 threads when I play it on my Xeon E3-1231v3 with Riva Tuner's Stats Server overlay on. But it is definitely CPU bound, especially with a card as powerful as an R9 290.

No i dont really play MMO's, ARMA meh maybe but I mostly playm BF, Dragon age, farcry, Counter strike, TF2, minecraft, witcher III when it comes out, skyrim and so on not really into the MMO's

BF4 and Dragon Age Inquisition seem to do very well on AMD CPUs. Far Cry 4 not as much, but we're not talking Dying Light bad by any stretch. Skyrim it'll probably be a bottleneck, but I'm not sure. Witcher III recommends an i7-3770, so hopefully that means it will be parallelized well enough to run well on the octacore FX chips. CS:GO, TF2, Minecraft will easily run well on your chip.

[ExcitezR]

from what i learnt from having a 8350 is that its ok for gaming but as soon as i wanted to do more that one thing e.g play a game and stream it slowed down alot and by alot i mean like 60-30fps and it was stuttering  or so. if i do the same scenario with the i7 4790k i lose like 3 fps