piledriver - Official AMD FX4300,FX6300 and FX8350 review thread

passey89 · 21 Oct 2012 at 21:40

cummon ocuk its released on tuesday.

give us some leaks!!

price?

pics?

something!

Edit:

review links

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-vishera-review,3328-4.html

http://hwt.dk/Test/39317/AMD-FX-8350/Konklusion-UK-summary

http://www.techspot.com/review/586-amd-fx-8350-fx-6300/page5.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/FX-8350_Piledriver_Review/

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/46985-amd-fx-8350-piledriver-cpu/

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/3314/amd-fx-8350--8320--6300-vishera-review-finally-good-enough

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/processors/1295398/amd-fx-8350/specifications

http://techreport.com/review/23750/amd-fx-8350-processor-reviewed

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx8350-fx8320-fx6300-and-fx4300-tested

RogerMesenseless · 21 Oct 2012 at 21:47

passey89 said:
cummon ocuk its released on tuesday.

give us some leaks!!

price?

pics?

something!

+1
I really want piledriver to be good. (Even as a self confessed Intel fanboy :rolleyes:

)

Dicehunter · 22 Oct 2012 at 08:51

Prozel · 22 Oct 2012 at 09:03

A danish site acutally posted a review earlier this morning, but it was removed shortly after. I may be able to extract it from the cache. It was the biggest, 8 core model.

I do remember that they gave performance a 4/5, and from what I remember the benchmarks showed it was on pair with the 2700k.

Dicehunter · 22 Oct 2012 at 09:29

Prozel said:
from what I remember the benchmarks showed it was on pair with the 2700k.

Kind of dissapointing

passey89 · 22 Oct 2012 at 09:37

2700k is good though.

better than my phenom 2 1075t locked @ 3.0 ghz though

Hagar · 22 Oct 2012 at 09:48

passey89 said:
2700k is good though.

better than my phenom 2 1075t locked @ 3.0 ghz though

Should have gone 250 busclock

.

mmj_uk · 22 Oct 2012 at 11:55

The trouble is a 2700K will still destroy it in a lot of situations, when they say "on par with 2700K" that's only going to be in best case conditions such as heavily multithreaded encoding.

passey89 · 22 Oct 2012 at 11:59

mmj_uk said:
The trouble is a 2700K will still destroy it in a lot of situations, when they say "on par with 2700K" that's only going to be in best case conditions such as heavily multithreaded encoding.

yeh no doubt.

But a 2700K is like £230 where as a 8350 should be around £160 according to pre-order prices hopefully less when it settles in

Martini1991 · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:00

mmj_uk said:
The trouble is a 2700K will still destroy it in a lot of situations, when they say "on par with 2700K" that's only going to be in best case conditions such as heavily multithreaded encoding.

+1
And it's what the FX8150 can pretty much do now.

It'll be more of the same.

Martini1991 · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:01

passey89 said:
yeh no doubt.

But a 2700K is like £230 where as a 8350 should be around £160 according to pre-order prices hopefully less when it settles in

I'd still take an FX8120 at those prices, if that's the workload you're looking for.

passey89 · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:18

another place has listed the 8350 for $199 so thats about £130 which looks nice

Martini1991 · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:19

You can't do dollar to pound conversion.

opethdisciple · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:22

As a gaming CPU tho, it may not still stand up to the Intel equivalents.

Any new mobo being released, with PCI-Ex3 etc...?

Hagar · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:23

Martini1991 said:
You can't do dollar to pound conversion.

$200 / 1.6 x 1.2 (for VAT) = £149.50.
I expect most larger resellers buy in dollars.

Emlyn_Dewar · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:25

You surely mean $200 = £200?
It's usually the more accurate conversion...

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:34

Prozel said:
A danish site acutally posted a review earlier this morning, but it was removed shortly after. I may be able to extract it from the cache. It was the biggest, 8 core model.

I do remember that they gave performance a 4/5, and from what I remember the benchmarks showed it was on pair with the 2700k.

Not bad.

Emlyn_Dewar said:
You surely mean $200 = £200?
It's usually the more accurate conversion...

It did not happen with Trinity or Llano though. There were some leaks for a US retailer which has been accurate in the past,and it appears the FX8350 should be under £160. A much higher price over £170 to £180 would probably a UK retailer adding a few quid more on top.

Hagar · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:43

At £160, I would trade in my 1090T for the eight core with similar or a tad more performance. I did look at trinity but it would have been a new mobo as well so I passed. This would be like an SB -> IB sidegrade with newer tech to play with.

Martini1991 · 22 Oct 2012 at 12:46

nkata said:
At £160, I would trade in my 1090T for the eight core with similar or a tad more performance. I did look at trinity but it would have been a new mobo as well so I passed. This would be like an SB -> IB sidegrade with newer tech to play with.

Maybe I'm just not enthusiast enough, but I couldn't ever justify a switch like that, be it SB to IB, or the AMD one.

It'd be like burning money to me.

passey89 · 22 Oct 2012 at 13:10

hex core 3.0ghz to 8 core 4.0ghz is an improvement to me.