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Considering an 8350... Am I as mad as a brush?

teppic said:
I've sometimes gone over budget (pointing it out clearly) if someone can get something massively better for just a little bit extra. Lots of people put up a budget and then 5 posts down add £50 to it.

As to 8350 cooling - you can get to 4.5GHz with a £25 cooler.
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easy, this one got me 4.8 no problem on the one I just shipped off to its owner.
 
Thing is teppic, if I know I am overclocking a chip (which is what is pretty much a given on these forums) I would want a quality cooler on it. The new built in liquid cooling is great considering this was not around the last time I built, so a £40 cooler of this sort would be just as essential as the decent PSU.

I may be anal about it (a tenner or just over that is acceptable) but a few guys seem to recommend a product as its what they have or follow the sheep especially when it's a chance to pop the under budget AMD offering I have noticed.
 
teppic said:
4.8GHz is impressive on a £30 cooler. I think the newer 8350s must really be clocking well.

I helped someone with a spec a couple of months ago and he wanted this cooler:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-CM

He could get to 4.6-4.7GHz on that.
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~4.7 on that cooler I would say is good going.

That is a decent cooler, but the one I linked is twice the physical size and has twice as many fins.

I don't know whats happened, but since Richland the FX-8 series CPU's do seem to clock that bit better and run that bit cooler than the initial tested ones all over the net.
 
humbug said:
~4.7 on that cooler I would say is good going.

That is a decent cooler, but the one I linked is twice the physical size and has twice as many fins.

I don't know whats happened, but since Richland the FX-8 series CPU's do seem to clock that bit better and run that bit cooler than the initial tested ones all over the net.
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Would have been interesting to see what that one you had at 4.8GHz would have got to under water or a high end air cooler - sounds like 5GHz would be no trouble at all.
 
Not mad at all check out my thread cant get 8350 past 4.6 ghz I did upto 4.8 @ 1.43v and still head room on temps cinebench score of 8.21 and will be posting gaming benchmark tomorrow

8350 for the win
 
farmerboy-86 said:
Not mad at all check out my thread cant get 8350 past 4.6 ghz I did upto 4.8 @ 1.43v and still head room on temps cinebench score of 8.21 and will be posting gaming benchmark tomorrow

8350 for the win
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If you had the sabertooth or formula MB you could probably get it to 4.8 or even 5 stable with no problems.
 
Thanks again guys. I probably will get AMD when I upgrade. Is there any reason to get an 8350 over an 8320?
 
Hades said:
Thanks again guys. I probably will get AMD when I upgrade. Is there any reason to get an 8350 over an 8320?
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It's possible (certainly not definite) that you might get a higher overclock on the 8350. Aside from factory clocks it's the same CPU though.
 
Hades said:
Thanks again guys. I probably will get AMD when I upgrade. Is there any reason to get an 8350 over an 8320?
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I would get the 8320 there isnt much difference between them if there was a smaller price gap like when i got mine i would say go for the 8350 but thats not the case.
 
Forgiveness which skip with this, but it goes a bit with the theme. It's well worth the 8350 or better 8320? I understand that they are the same CPU, but blocked the 8320?

I'm going has purchased one recently and was not by which of the two go ...
 
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