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Hi, my name is DarkDragoon. I am looking to upgrade my current cpu for a newer one as my cpu doesn't like streaming and gaming together. My pc specs are as mentioned.

Motherboard: ASrock 990FX Extreme 3 AM3+

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 970 3.5GHz

GPU: Gigabyte R9 270X 2Gb 256bit

16G of DDR3 1600MHz Corsair (4x4G)

Corsair 750W Semi-Modular PSU

250G Samsung SSD

1TB WD HDD

2TB WD External HDD

 

My Motherboard can support up to the FX-8350. No, I won't spend more money to switch to Intel. I've had a bad experience with Intel and probably won't side with them for a long time.

Is it worth the $180 USD for a brand new 8350 or should I go for a cheaper 8350 on Ebay?

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Hi, my name is DarkDragoon. I am looking to upgrade my current cpu for a newer one as my cpu doesn't like streaming and gaming together. My pc specs are as mentioned.

Motherboard: ASrock 990FX Extreme 3 AM3+

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 970 3.5GHz

GPU: Gigabyte R9 270X 2Gb 256bit

16G of DDR3 1600MHz Corsair (4x4G)

Corsair 750W Semi-Modular PSU

250G Samsung SSD

1TB WD HDD

2TB WD External HDD

 

My Motherboard can support up to the FX-8350. No, I won't spend more money to switch to Intel. I've had a bad experience with Intel and probably won't side with them for a long time.

Is it worth the $180 USD for a brand new 8350 or should I go for a cheaper 8350 on Ebay?

What bad experience have you had with intel? just curious- and the 8350 is about the same performance wise as an i5-4460.

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Welcome to the Forum.

 

If you want better performance in games, you're really going to see it if you switch to a recent Intel chip. I don't see any logic behind your having bad experiences with Intel chips before having any impact on your intentions now.

 

I'd go for a used 8350 as long as it definitely works and comes with the original packaging, but I would find another cooler for it.

 

You're going to see worse performance on the 8350 than with a core i3 in a lot of games, because a lot of games depend heavily on single-thread performance.

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Hi, my name is DarkDragoon. I am looking to upgrade my current cpu for a newer one as my cpu doesn't like streaming and gaming together. My pc specs are as mentioned.

Motherboard: ASrock 990FX Extreme 3 AM3+

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 970 3.5GHz

GPU: Gigabyte R9 270X 2Gb 256bit

16G of DDR3 1600MHz Corsair (4x4G)

Corsair 750W Semi-Modular PSU

250G Samsung SSD

1TB WD HDD

2TB WD External HDD

 

My Motherboard can support up to the FX-8350. No, I won't spend more money to switch to Intel. I've had a bad experience with Intel and probably won't side with them for a long time.

Is it worth the $180 USD for a brand new 8350 or should I go for a cheaper 8350 on Ebay?

If you want good performance your going to switch to intel.. Just the way gaming/streaming is. If your really stuck with amd you can try a 8350 but i can tell you right now from experience it wont stream well.

 

what exactly happend with intel?

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Why not save $30 and get a 8320?

Because lower stock clockspeed!

 

The 8350 is going to be slightly higher binned and might perform better, drawing less power and producing less heat...or might not.

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Because lower stock clockspeed!

 

The 8350 is going to be slightly higher binned and might perform better, drawing less power and producing less heat...or might not.

He can use the $30 he saved to get a aftermarket cooler and overclock to get better performance.

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He can use the $30 he saved to get a aftermarket cooler and overclock to get better performance.

Good point. Then there's the argument that you might get a really bad 8320 and might not be able to even overclock to the stock clocks of the 8350 - but that's pretty unlikely.

 

I agree.

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What bad experience have you had with intel? just curious- and the 8350 is about the same performance wise as an i5-4460.

In his case no, not always. Seeing he is streaming and gaming the i5 will not be a large difference.

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Yea seeing you have a nice motherboard I would look at the 8320 or 8350 as people before have stated, you can get quite lucky sometimes with prices :)

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what bad experiences have you had on intel?

If it was on a laptop, the desktop platform is completely different... 

Seeing that some i3's directly compete with the 6300 and i5's completely mop the floor with most if not all AMD CPU's at this current moment and i7 is not even a challenge, incomparable to AMD. 

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what bad experiences have you had on intel?

If it was on a laptop, the desktop platform is completely different... 

Seeing that some i3's directly compete with the 6300 and i5's completely mop the floor with most if not all AMD CPU's at this current moment and i7 is not even a challenge, incomparable to AMD. 

agree with this ^^^

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My first true computer. I had one of the brick ones back when I was in 4th grade that I won from the school. It didn't do much but I wasn't into pc's back then.

I graduated high school half way through my senior year. Went back at the end of the school year to attend the graduation ceremony and the party afterwards.

Won a gateway laptop with intel cpu and windows vista. I had nothing but problems with that pc. I finally decided to sell it and got a Toshiba L505 satellite lap that had AMD.

That laptop though not really good at gaming lasted me a good two years till I could afford a gaming tower. I've had my Phenom II x4 970 for the past 5 years. I still have the gpu

my gaming tower came with in the box of my new gpu. It was a Gigabyte HD 5770. Both my cpu and gpu have survived power surges and outages. 

 

I prefer AMD for reliability and I don't run my games at max graphics as a rule of thumb. I'd rather take a hit in how pretty a game looks over a strong and stable fps.

I do not have the funds to completely build a brand new pc just to switch to intel. No do I want to. I am looking for an upgrade. Not to toss my pc out to the curb just to sate 

every intel fan boy out there. I am limited by my motherboard and budget. 

 

Of course Intel has better cpu's. They only gave AMD last gen models to copy from for the 90's. But I have a good run going with AMD cpu's. So I'll stick to what works for me. Also I replaced my stock cpu heatsink with a Cool Master Hyper 212 Evo. Considering moving over to a Corsair H100 liquid cooling later on when I get a stable income.

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My first true computer. I had one of the brick ones back when I was in 4th grade that I won from the school. It didn't do much but I wasn't into pc's back then.

I graduated high school half way through my senior year. Went back at the end of the school year to attend the graduation ceremony and the party afterwards.

Won a gateway laptop with intel cpu and windows vista. I had nothing but problems with that pc. I finally decided to sell it and got a Toshiba L505 satellite lap that had AMD.

That laptop though not really good at gaming lasted me a good two years till I could afford a gaming tower. I've had my Phenom II x4 970 for the past 5 years. I still have the gpu

my gaming tower came with in the box of my new gpu. It was a Gigabyte HD 5770. Both my cpu and gpu have survived power surges and outages. 

 

I prefer AMD for reliability and I don't run my games at max graphics as a rule of thumb. I'd rather take a hit in how pretty a game looks over a strong and stable fps.

I do not have the funds to completely build a brand new pc just to switch to intel. No do I want to. I am looking for an upgrade. Not to toss my pc out to the curb just to sate 

every intel fan boy out there. I am limited by my motherboard and budget. 

 

Of course Intel has better cpu's. They only gave AMD last gen models to copy from for the 90's. But I have a good run going with AMD cpu's. So I'll stick to what works for me. Also I replaced my stock cpu heatsink with a Cool Master Hyper 212 Evo. Considering moving over to a Corsair H100 liquid cooling later on when I get a stable income.

vista, laptop, and Intel dont mix lol

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Hi, my name is DarkDragoon. I am looking to upgrade my current cpu for a newer one as my cpu doesn't like streaming and gaming together. My pc specs are as mentioned.

Motherboard: ASrock 990FX Extreme 3 AM3+

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 970 3.5GHz

GPU: Gigabyte R9 270X 2Gb 256bit

16G of DDR3 1600MHz Corsair (4x4G)

Corsair 750W Semi-Modular PSU

250G Samsung SSD

1TB WD HDD

2TB WD External HDD

My Motherboard can support up to the FX-8350. No, I won't spend more money to switch to Intel. I've had a bad experience with Intel and probably won't side with them for a long time.

Is it worth the $180 USD for a brand new 8350 or should I go for a cheaper 8350 on Ebay?

I currently have a i5 4460 and an R9 380 4GB in my build and my FX-6300 and the 760 2GB which I had before absolutely destroy my current build. So stay with AMD and overclock the FX series chips and you won't need an Intel.

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I currently have a i5 4460 and an R9 380 4GB in my build and my FX-6300 and the 760 2GB which I had before absolutely destroy my current build. So stay with AMD and overclock the FX series chips and you won't need an Intel.

I guess you were playing heavily threaded games... and surely the 380 should beat the 760 by a large margin.

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I can understand why he would want a AM3+ CPU considering he has a $120 motherboard for it.
 
If you are planning on overclocking or are willing to overclock, get this:
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
 
CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor  ($149.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($32.50 @ Newegg) 
Total: $182.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-20 13:33 EST-0500
 
If you have something against overclocking (Which is bad since that's something you'll want to do with AMD CPUs), get this:
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
 
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor  ($181.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $181.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-20 13:35 EST-0500

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I guess you were playing heavily threaded games... and surely the 380 should beat the 760 by a large margin.

The 760 had a much better benchmark score even with both cards overclocked.

I am not just talking about games, I'm talking about benchmark programs testing CPU and GPU and the FX-6300 beat the i5-4460 in everything except single core performance obviously.

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