AMD FX-8350 Virtualization?

[Deenjima]

Hey guys, so I am thinking about making a 2 in 1 computer build similar to the Linus made here

so that my little brother and enjoy co-op PC gaming without having to deal with any spacing compromises and I was thinking if the AMD FX-8350 also being a 8 core CPU and cheaper than the I7 6700K that they used here.

 

Thank you for answering

[zMeul]

check this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware

HW virtualization has two components CPU side (AMD-V in your case) and mobo side (IOMMU)

[bughtoo]

5 minutes ago, Deenjima said:

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The AMD is much less powerfull than the 6700k. But if you are not planning to do any proffesional work like rendering, video editing etc. and your inteded use is 90% gaming it could be a good alternative, as long as you dont buy too high end gpu that would get bottlenecked by the cpu  (like 1070,1080 in this case) 

[Morgan MLGman]

12 minutes ago, bughtoo said:

The AMD is much less powerfull than the 6700k. But if you are not planning to do any proffesional work like rendering, video editing etc. and your inteded use is 90% gaming it could be a good alternative, as long as you dont buy too high end gpu that would get bottlenecked by the cpu  (like 1070,1080 in this case) 

8350 is around 37-40% slower multitthreaded-wise, but 6700K is 213% more expensive (150$ vs 320$), so yeah. Price/performance is INCOMPARABLY in favor of the 8350, and it should suffice for light gaming, as you're basically stuck with two FX-4350s.

 

This is actually a good usage scenario for the 8350 and if you can't afford the 6700K, it's one of the best CPUs for that usage if you consider value for money.