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AMD Phennon II X6

jbh110tdi said:
my 8350 was running stock with an msi 7950 boost edition and it has played any games on high setting that ive tried.

Im tempted to go intel if my 8350 doesnt get exchanged ill be looking to go intel before the end of the year. if it does get replaced ill hold off till the middle of next year and my son will get the 8350 with my sabertooth board
or I might try the 9590 and my son will get the 8350 in the gigabyte board I have sitting
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so i moved to a i7 6700k from the AMD 8350, kept same Graphics card MSI 290 Gaming , I tried GTA 5 with same settings as i did with the AMD 8350, it is miles better, when on GTA5 i used to see frames drop to 40-45 and see that stutter, now im getting a solid 60fps my monitor is 60hz, and is super smooth, i even maxed the settings with just AA off, and its stays stuck on 60fps,

its like its brought the graphics card to life
 
uscool said:
so i moved to a i7 6700k from the AMD 8350, kept same Graphics card MSI 290 Gaming , I tried GTA 5 with same settings as i did with the AMD 8350, it is miles better, when on GTA5 i used to see frames drop to 40-45 and see that stutter, now im getting a solid 60fps my monitor is 60hz, and is super smooth, i even maxed the settings with just AA off, and its stays stuck on 60fps,

its like its brought the graphics card to life
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youre comparing it to the newest Intel cpu so yes you will see an improvement.
I would like to see it compared to an i5 or i7 of the same age.

dont get me wrong I am thinking on looking to go Intel next year once funds allow.

humbug said:
I made a quick comparison of the 1090T and FX-8350 here
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good info. im sending my FX-8350 back under warranty. Ive given them the serial number and its been approved. not sure how it will go once it arrives though as its an OEM chip.
 
jbh110tdi said:
youre comparing it to the newest Intel cpu so yes you will see an improvement.
I would like to see it compared to an i5 or i7 of the same age.

dont get me wrong I am thinking on looking to go Intel next year once funds allow.


good info. im sending my FX-8350 back under warranty. Ive given them the serial number and its been approved. not sure how it will go once it arrives though as its an OEM chip.
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check out this video , especially with GTA5 , the 2500k was released in 2011, thats about the time i bought 8350 , i fell for the 8 cores :p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_5p9wd2dk
 
Cooper said:
I remember when it became clear what a let down the first Bulldozer CPU's were that the price of the 1090T went through the roof on Ebay :).
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I had a pre-order in for Bulldozer at the time with OCUK. When I saw the performance tests, I immediately phoned them and switched it to an 1100T X6 - before the prices went up :D
 
Yes not bad, I did eventually put an FX8350 into the machine that had the 1100T. Sold the 1100T on the bay for very little less than what I paid for it, the upgrade cost all of about £20-£30.

Still have a 1090T box @3.6 but will leave that exactly as it is until it dies, which I expect to be several more years. Gave it a little refresh recently with an SSD, and it is superb.
 
ive just been offered a cheap retail boxed 8350 from a boy I know so I can see me taking that and the 1090t heading back into the gigabyte 990x board I have sitting and ill use the 8350 in the sabertooth
 
JonFlower said:
Hi all.

I'm just curious, is anyone else out there still using an AMD Phennon II X6 CPU? It's a little long in the tooth but mine's clocked at 3.8GHz and it's still holding up when paired with an Nvidia 970.

I'm not much of a gamer these days, but Fallout 4 will be on my Xmas list :cool:

Perhaps one day a core i5 will be needed.
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I have an 1100T which I replaced last year, but I think it ought to technically count because the only reason I replaced it was I needed a processor with built-in AES support. And I swapped to the 8350 because I could keep all the rest of the system the same. Can't do that very often with Intel! ;)

I'm probably going to shift to Intel soon, but I might wait to see what Zen is like. I'd prefer to support AMD if possible.
 
I still use my old phenom II x4 955 and gigabyte 790FX system as a server. It was my main gaming rig up to early 2014. I seriously considered swapping it for an 1100T but went to a X79 i7 instead. It got thoroughly thrashed with lots of volts to push it up to 4GHz and is now getting a nice break running underclocked and undervolted to save as much power as possible.
 
I had a Phenom II x4 for ages and it was a great resilient chip. The only reason I upgraded to an Intel (see sig) was that one of my main games (Guild Wars 2) didn't seem to like AMD chips. I'd probably still be using it now, though I think I'd be looking to upgrade.
 
kration said:
I'd probably still be using it now, though I think I'd be looking to upgrade.
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Yes.. yes you would :D

I'm trying to hold out for Zen on the off chance it's decent and of competitive pricing. If not gonna have to be a skylake if it comes down in price somewhat as the z170 has what I expect out of the platform or x99 if not perhaps.

The real issue however is that AMD motherboards are pretty lackluster at the moment rather than the lack of cpu power, just doesn't seem to matter now we are moving into DX12.
 
You got a lot more out of them in games if the north bridge was tuned too, I had a 4ghz chip with the NB frequency tuned and it certainly made the first bulldozers cry.
 
I got the HEX Core in my Media PC, and I have thrown a load of games onto it, so the kids can play games on it, and it plays every single game I have pretty much the same as my main PC does. Sure, if I compare them, I dare say a game or two will show some difference, but in truth, unless Im looking for any, I wont see them.
When I upped to the 8320 ( I think it was that ) they were both 3.2 and in truth, I thought the Hex core was a tad quicker when I compared them with multi core apps, which did surprise me a great deal, but I tried a few other apps and they showed me different.
 
kration said:
I was being a bit charitable to a great value chip that had served me very well, but you are right - I'm glad I upgraded ;)
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Oh they were great chips, not sorry at all I got a PhenomII. If I'm honest I'm just bored with my entire system, want something new and exciting to play with. The only thing this system offers me is evaluating DX12 performance on an older quad core CPU which is something that interests me and will allow me some play time between now and my full system upgrade when we have benchmarks etc.

Lost my second 24" monitor today, the mobo died a year back and swapped that out for and M4A and 6 months back I temporarily lost a CPU core, god knows why. She's on her last legs but I'm trying to ride her all the way to Zen, wish me luck :D
 
I've still got all the parts to rebuild my old Phenom 965 bar another PSU. Going to get round to buying one and maybe install it downstairs coupled my old HD7850 if the missus lets me !
 
I also got a Phenom 965 too!

I did a few benchmarks with that little darling, against a 2.6 Ghz HexCore - I think its was the Thuban... I called it that anyway... The 1035T I think?

Core for core, the Phenom ripped the Thuban to shreds ,and indeed for almost every basic task, the Quad Core was much better, and when you ran multi threaded apps that could use all teh cores, even then the Hexcore was only just on par with it.

I still have the Phenom in a system upstairs somewhere, but I recently gave the Hex Core setup away to a mate purely to grab a very old Quad CPU ( yes, 4 CPUS ) Xeon for a giggle.
 
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