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AMD FX 8320 analysis

To be honest, if I was buying a AMD FX CPU right now, I'd just get either a FX6300 or FX8320 depending on budget, and put the money saved by sensibly not going FX8350 or above toward some decent CPU coolings.

The FX8350 or above are only good for people that are like "What's overclocking? Is that tasty?" :D
 
It seems the 8350 may overclock slightly better on average - nobody knows about the 9370 and 9590 as nobody buys them.

I'd just rather have an 8350 at £120 and 9370 at £150. I think lots of people would get the 9370 then and have a CPU with a base clock of 4.3GHz, which is massively better in demanding games.
 
I have two upcoming build updates to do, one's coming from a Phenom II X4 (Which I bought him very recently as an upgrade from his X2) he's running a 7950, I know it's a bottleneck, but I couldn't afford the Intel upgrade path at the time for him, I now can with his new upgrade, my i5 4670K at 4.6GHZ with a 128GB SSD.

And then I've got another, coming again from an AMD chip (Shocker) an Athlon II X3, the likelihood is that he's getting an overclocked FX8320, I'm not sure if I can fit in the i5 without sacrifices.
 
The 8320 is definitely the chip to choose if you're an enthusiast. The totally lame out of the box clocks are just begging to be pushed to hell :D

The 8350 is definitely the safe bet but you do pay for that safety.
 
That's the thing, it's good for those of us who know you can save and just get an 8320 and clock it to 4.5GHz+ on basically any Asus board, but people who don't know and end up with it running at 3.5GHz would be much better off with an 8350.
 
I don't understand the argument over older games that are poorly threaded... Old games run at stupidly high fps on anything modern, I don't need more, but new games do need more performance and they generally like cores.
 
We'll see how things go over the next few years.... As it stands now I need Intel because I play such a diverse range of games so I need ha chip that has a good all round ability in terms of gaming performance.

If threading really takes off over the next 12-18 months I might move to AMD as despite what people think my first ever gaming machines were AMD, the first CPU I ever over clocked was an AMD and the first high end CPU I bought was also an AMD.
 
ppl need to stop living in the past and get in the here and now,

Yes old games use less threads/cores whateva and run better with intel than the FX

But the here and now is games are using more threads/cores whateva
 
Just because they can use the cores doesn't mean a lot, it depends entirely how they're using them.
AC4's a brand spanking new game, it's running Anvil Next, unless they've sprinkled some fairy dust on it, it's not going to be better on an FX83 than an i5.

With an FX83 in older games, you've essentially got the same performance an Intel user had 5 years ago.

Games are starting to use more cores, that's a given, but you're still not out classing my clocked i5.
 
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BurntProc said:
I don't understand the argument over older games that are poorly threaded... Old games run at stupidly high fps on anything modern, I don't need more, but new games do need more performance and they generally like cores.
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There biggest problem is even the more recent games for the pass 1-2 years, other than a few big EA FPS titles, almost everything else are still only running at 4 threads or less (quite frequently just 2 threads or less). Many of those games that using 2-4 cores of the overclocked FX is not capable of holding minimum frame rate of 50fps+, unlike 2 cores of the overclocked i5/i7- games like Hitman Absolution and AC3 come to mind.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
There biggest problem is even the more recent games for the pass 1-2 years, other than a few big EA FPS titles, almost everything else are still only running at 4 threads or less (quite frequently just 2 threads or less). Many of those games that using 2-4 cores of the overclocked FX is not capable of holding minimum frame rate of 50fps+, unlike 2 cores of the overclocked i5/i7- games like Hitman Absolution and AC3 come to mind.
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I can't find any benchmarks of vishera, and AC3 looks like a clear win for intel, but no i5 benchmarks show any CPU holding strong minimum frames in AC3:

http://gamegpu.ru/images/stories/Test_GPU/Action/Assassins Creed III/ac3 proz.png

I think these ubisoft console port programmers need to pull their fingers out of their arses and optimise for PCs full stop (intel and amd). Same goes for bohemia. These are exceptions though - where programmers need to be sacked and replaced with competent ones.
 
Well, yes. But a 760 vs 7950 Boost (which should generally be no contest):

Assassin's Creed III
1920 x 1080 [4xAA/16xAF] 64,9 52,6 (-18,9%)

And a 760 vs a 7970 (!)

Assassin's Creed III
1920 x 1080 [4xAA/16xAF] 64,9 60,5 (-6,8%)
 
BurntProc said:
How is it? My eyes water if I have to endure 55 FPS for a fraction of a second.
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Then you must look like you're crying while you're playing games ;):p, that's not a slight at your CPU, but I know what a 7970 is capable of too.

I don't really want 41 FPS, but we're talking about a chip which has been replaced twice and still has a possible 1.7GHZ left in the tank.

41 FPS in AC3 is far from bad comparatively speaking.

teppic said:
Well, yes. But a 760 vs 7950 Boost (which should generally be no contest):

Assassin's Creed III
1920 x 1080 [4xAA/16xAF] 64,9 52,6 (-18,9%)

And a 760 vs a 7970 (!)

Assassin's Creed III
1920 x 1080 [4xAA/16xAF] 64,9 60,5 (-6,8%)
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I think you're getting a little bit hung up on this :p
You get games which tend to favour X or Y GPU vendor, a 760 besting a 7950 Boost in certain games comes as no surprise to me.
 
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