fx 8350 now ore ZEN later

[Nena Trinity]

Wait if you can wait to Q4 2016!

[LukaH]

zen all the way I love amd but I would not buy the FX 8350 again... should have stuck with the phenom 965 and waited for zen

[BrightCandle]

By AMDs own accounts the CPU will be somewhere around Haswell in terms of performance and is due out the end of this year. That will mean its still quite a bit behind Intel's mainstream and enthusiast chips but it will at least be a lot more competitive than the very aged 8350 that was always designed around servers (the module thing helps on servers a lot as they are usually dominated by integer math).

 

Personally I don't see the appeal, anyone can already buy that level of performance and better from Intel so really it only comes down to price and I doubt it'll be much cheaper. So as an AMD purchaser only you have limited your options.

[Prysin]

On 16/03/2016 at 0:25 PM, Sintezza said:

 

I would recommend to wait for zen.

Because your current motherboard, the M5a88-m will not handle a FX8 core chip that well.

The vrm cirquitry of that particular board is not decent enough for that in my opinnion.

 

 

yeah that board would catch fire/just outright die if he tried to use it with a FX8

[lordyo97]

Hope I am not too late here, wouldn't suggest getting an fx8350 without upgrading your mobo, also zen is comming in october or november this year, but only in APU's, just CPU's will come out in may or june 2017, and it will be zen+, not zen.(am4+ in contrast of am4 socket)

Zen+ will get new FX products for desktops, they already started rolling new FX for laptops(actually APU's) and will rollout new ones with zen, but for desktop FX series will have to wait for Zen+ which comes around 8 months later from zen.

Also hyperthreading in new generation, not sure if it will be awailable from zen or zen+, it will be 3 threads per 1 core, probabaly most popular are gonna be 4 core ones, but imagine 8 core with 3 threads for each core? probabaly gonna be new fx9590 with 220W.

 

I had the same dilema, but got myself A10-7870K(got APU because didnt wanna get dGPU atm) and A68 chipset mobo from Asus which supports up to 2400mhz OC'd ram speed, doe i only OC'd my ram to 2133 because it's top limit my CPU can use without OC

 

Best bet is to get some cheap a68 socket mobo and a 880k(860k if u cant get 880k one) and wait untill Zen+ comes.

i am probabaly gonna wait late 2017 for AMD to make some CPU overclocks well and ASUS to make good ROG mobo for OC.

also zen will probabaly support up to 2400 or 2800 mhz ddr4 speed and u can get ddr3 of same speed, but zen+ will probabaly support 3000 or 3200 at release with tendencies to go higher

[BadBacon]

Wait for Zen if you can. If not, buy from intel. Buying an 8350 at the change of manufacturing process and newer architecture would result in a loss rather than a gain.