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FX-8320 in an amd 870 AM3 board?

joebingo

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Hey guys,

Just wondering if this would work, as I don't want to sink money into an unusable upgrade and definitely wont be buying a new motherboard until I buy a whole new setup.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, my current machine is in my sig.

Cheers
 
AMD are still better at multi-threaded applications and these will increase in the future.
Up to you though atm intel are better for gaming and single threaded applications.
 
Thanks for the responses guys, would you say it'd be worth upgrading to a new socket now, or would it be better to wait a while until new sockets come out?

In terms of my usage, I'd like to say mostly recording and video editing, which are both things I'll be using it for, but realistically its main use will be browsing the internet and gaming.
 
I'd wait until Haswell drops, see what happens.

There's currently some Ivy Xeons that are 4c 8t at decent prices, I wonder if that'll continue with Haswell?
But you wouldn't be making a mistake going AMD or Intel to be honest.
 
imginy said:
Are you saying amd are better than intel at multithreaded? :confused:

The benchmarks I seen put intel best at everything.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/443?vs=697
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Price wise there's quite a gulf though, at the same price range you're looking at FX83/i5's

And in that price range the FX83's are better in heavy multi-threaded situations.

Intel could deal a crushing blow at any money they wanted to be honest though.
 
Martini1991 said:
Price wise there's quite a gulf though, at the same price range you're looking at FX83/i5's

And in that price range the FX83's are better in heavy multi-threaded situations.

Intel could deal a crushing blow at any money they wanted to be honest though.
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Oh, I'm limited on socket rather than price tbh - if I were going Intel it'll be i7 all the way (I wont be spending £800 on it though!).

I guess I'll wait until Haswell - part of me wants to try an Intel build actually, been using AMD since the Athlon XPs. Thanks again all!
 
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