AMD FX-8350 an upgrade option ?

[Nadleeh]

I have this setup in my signature I'm actually very fond of, but I know it's not high-end anymore nor is it my wish to make it super high-end but just a good average gamer and work-PC. I have a 4-year old AM2+ motherboard with DDR2 memory which has served me through 2009 and till today. The CPU was upgraded from a Phenom II X4 955 to a X6 1090T back in april 2010... but unfortunately no more upgrades can be done on this old platform. Latest upgrade was to the GTX 660 2GB a few weeks back.

I'm thinking of upgrading now - IF there is something worth upgrading to within the AMD camp. The FX-8350 is out now, but I'm unsure whether or not the new Piledriver is a good enough upgrade from an older X6 1090T ?
I know the whole upgrade would result in new motherboard an Ram too.

What would your advice be ? will I benefint substatially by upgrading to a 990FX board and a FX-8350 and some 1833Mhz ram ?. I'm looking for more than just 25% since an upgrade, since a new CPU, motherboard, Ram won't be that cheap.

 

[Martini1991]

I'd honestly keep what you've got, as an all rounder it's still a good option.

 

[passey89]

don't go buying an am3+ mobo no point.

If your upgrading mobo go i5.

If you already have an AM3+ mobo then piledriver is a good upgrade

 

[555BUK]

don't go buying an am3+ mobo no point.

If your upgrading mobo go i5.

If you already have an AM3+ mobo then piledriver is a good upgrade

+1

Unless you can save the cost of a mobo, better off going the Intel route, The 8350 should just about beat Intel's 2500/3570K processors for out of box performance, but the new AMD will probably cost more and will definately use much more power and overclock worse.

 

[Nadleeh]

I do a bit of video editing and rendering on hobby basis, so that's the "main" reason I though of going AMD again. I don't mind Intel but if Intel is the only way to go, then I'll wait a bit (hyperthreading 'costs' extra).

 

[dfour]

Looking at the reviews rendering is where the piledriver excells and will be cheaper than a 3770K chip

 

[Boomstick777]

I have this setup in my signature I'm actually very fond of, but I know it's not high-end anymore nor is it my wish to make it super high-end but just a good average gamer and work-PC. I have a 4-year old AM2+ motherboard with DDR2 memory which has served me through 2009 and till today. The CPU was upgraded from a Phenom II X4 955 to a X6 1090T back in april 2010... but unfortunately no more upgrades can be done on this old platform. Latest upgrade was to the GTX 660 2GB a few weeks back.

I'm thinking of upgrading now - IF there is something worth upgrading to within the AMD camp. The FX-8350 is out now, but I'm unsure whether or not the new Piledriver is a good enough upgrade from an older X6 1090T ?
I know the whole upgrade would result in new motherboard an Ram too.

What would your advice be ? will I benefint substatially by upgrading to a 990FX board and a FX-8350 and some 1833Mhz ram ?. I'm looking for more than just 25% since an upgrade, since a new CPU, motherboard, Ram won't be that cheap.

Grab a decent / cheap 1155 mobo, throw in a 3570K and that will give you much more performance from your GTX 660. Your current mobo and CPU will be holding it back. I rememeber when I switched from a 1055T @ 4.2ghz to a 2500K, I gained up to 90fps from the same GPU on certain games .

Intel is the way to go atm..

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I do a bit of video editing and rendering on hobby basis, so that's the "main" reason I though of going AMD again. I don't mind Intel but if Intel is the only way to go, then I'll wait a bit (hyperthreading 'costs' extra).

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=23016695&postcount=138

It depends on what is more important - gaming performance or video editing and rendering performance. The FX8350 will certainly be competitive in games based on newer multi-threaded games,but will be behind in lightly threaded games,where it is more SB or IB Core i3 level performance.

Once CB moves onto Cinema 4D R13 or R14,which are the current version of the software, expect to see the FX8300 series to be look better. If you want to overclock,I would get the FX8320 instead.

Edit!!

AFAIK,the modeling steps would probably run quicker on a Core i5. Someone also mentioned to me on another forum that single thread performance affects actual rendering? Not sure about the latter.