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CPU bottlenecking?

Marine-RX179 said:
Ah if that's your board, then yea the FX-8300 with the 95W TDP is probably the highest CPU you could get. From the looks of it the board's VRM is not good enough to handle the TDP 125W FX8320 and FX8350, so that's why they ain't listed in the support list. However, I don't think there's any retailer selling the 95W FX8300 in the UK. There are some people selling it on the famous auction site, but it's at £135.

Also, I don't think the 95W TDP FX8300 will overclocked as high as the 125W TDP FX8320/8350.
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Yeh I had a quick search for an 8300 and quickly came to the same conclusion. I think it would be wasted on my board anyway like you say.
 
uksoldierboy said:
Definitely get the 8320 if your not looking to spend a lot, but just so you know, i upgraded from a FX4100 @4.8 to a 4770K @4.6 and the performance difference has been absolutely incredible.
I ran a highly overclocked gigabyte 7970 Ghz edition when i had the fx and while for the most part games ran fine, it always felt like it wasn't able to stretch it's legs.
I get higher fps now than i ever did with my old system.
Best of luck in what ever you get pal.:)
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That is good to know, thanks!

Whilst the 7850 isn't much special, it has overclocked really well and likewise I think it's being help back a bit.

I should have researched more before getting the fx4100 to be honest but hey ho, lessons learned. Gave me some good first OCing practise anyway!

Impressed you got 4.8hz out of yours, mine hit the wall at 4.4, then again I haven't tried it again since getting an aftermarket cooler. Maybe I'll give it some more abuse, if it fries, I'll just have to upgrade earlier! :D
 
Orch said:
That is good to know, thanks!

Whilst the 7850 isn't much special, it has overclocked really well and likewise I think it's being help back a bit.

I should have researched more before getting the fx4100 to be honest but hey ho, lessons learned. Gave me some good first OCing practise anyway!

Impressed you got 4.8hz out of yours, mine hit the wall at 4.4, then again I haven't tried it again since getting an aftermarket cooler. Maybe I'll give it some more abuse, if it fries, I'll just have to upgrade earlier! :D
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No problem pal happy to help;) I had mine under water so that helped a lot.
Give overclocking it another go by all means, it's free after all and you should get better results with improved cooling:D
for me though, i'd be inclined to say go haswell, a 4670k would be a huge upgrade!
 
Haswell is extremely tempting. I'm wondering whether the games I play BF3/BF4 etc would benefit from the extra cores on the 8320 though?
 
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