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To be honest, I will most likely run it at stock for quite some time then overclock it as required once it starts to become insufficient :P

 

I would get the 8320 then at a later point if you need to OC, buy a better cooler.

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Get an 8320, it costs ever so slightly more (sometimes even less) than the 6350, but you get 2 more cores and an extra floating point unit, which can prove to be very handy when those 8-core optimized games start to come out.

Disable the weak module on the 8320 & you've got yourself a 6350, so it's a win-win either way you look at it.

As for binning, I got my 8320 from 3.5Ghz/4.0Ghz to 4.2Ghz/4.4Ghz on the stock voltage and on the stock cooler, the manufacturing process is very mature at this point which makes binning even less important than it was before.

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What OC do you plan to run?

To be honest, I will most likely run it at stock for quite some time then overclock it as required once it starts to become insufficient :p

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To be honest, I will most likely run it at stock for quite some time then overclock it as required once it starts to become insufficient :P

 

I would get the 8320 then at a later point if you need to OC, buy a better cooler.

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I would get the 8320 then at a later point if you need to OC, buy a better cooler.

Then that's just what I'll do.

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With optifine the multi-threaded render option changes that; regardless I'm barely going to play minecraft xD I've exhausted that game and it's vast collection of mods.

Even with multi-threaded options, personally, I've used Optifine with a 256x texture pack and saw no difference in multi-threaded vs single threaded to be quite honest.

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Those extra cores will definitely help in the future. I have make mistake before where i think 2 cores would be enough as no games would be using than 2 cores but within a year,4 cores have become standard.That time most peoples i ask said that futureproofting is silly and waste of money if buy 4cores cpu.Most believe that better single threaded performance is the future. Feel like kicking myself after that.

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Those extra cores will definitely help in the future. I have make mistake before where i think 2 cores would be enough as no games would be using than 2 cores but within a year,4 cores have become standard.That time most peoples i ask said that futureproofting is silly and waste of money if buy 4cores cpu.Most believe that better single threaded performance is the future. Feel like kicking myself after that.

._. what did you buy an i3?

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Right now i wouldn`t buy anything else then FX 8350 (if i was going AMD way) price difference is minor and i think it`s future proof (cores) and it`s very good CPU !

Eh I'm on a pretty loose budget but the more I save the sooner I get a monitor :p

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Phenom II X2 year 2009 i believe.

Wow ._.

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