Gaming CPU

[ALXAndy]

Well this could be fantastic news for people on a budget.

If the 8320E consumes less power than the regular 8320 this means that cheap boards will be able to cope with it much easier.

Your regular cheap budget board is a 4 phase. The high end ones are 8 phase. However, all is not lost as a 4 phase board will usually do at least 4.2ghz on a 8320. If that rises to say, 4.5ghz on a 8320 E then setting up a good 8 core system with a cheap board could become the norm.

That's the most exciting bit of this launch IMO.

 

[cwgk91]

It'll be hard to tell, they might have simply dropped the stock voltage (they were far too conservative with it) and/or the turbo settings throttle more aggressively.

I don't see how they'd be inherently better chips, at least compared with ones manufactured recently.

Just wondering if they are effectively binned chips like the 9590 is a pre-binned 8350 in drag

 

[deFiniLoGy]

second hand delidded 4770K

 

[Andy7]

Best price/performance chip is the FX8320, there's no escaping it.

But it depends on your budget/GPU set up.

My Brother has decided to go with that chip. He didn't want to spend a lot of money and it ticked all the boxes for what he wants.

 

[cwgk91]

My Brother has decided to go with that chip. He didn't want to spend a lot of money and it ticked all the boxes for what he wants.

Definitely, still got my 8350 Having 'fun' trying to over clock th 4790k now... all i can say is the AMD is much easier to get stable!

 

[Tuvoc]

My Brother has decided to go with that chip. He didn't want to spend a lot of money and it ticked all the boxes for what he wants.

Is he going to overclock it to 8350 level ?

 

[SlugForAButt]

second hand delidded 4770K

OK then...

 

[Rannoch]

Is the 8320 enough to feed a single 7990 @ 1080p?

 

[cwgk91]

Ive had 2x 290xs with an [email protected] and it depends entirely on the game. BF4, both at 100%, others not quite so much. Single card the chip is very decent. Even more so with mantle

Would definitely recommend the chip for fun or budget PCs but if you're out for pure performance then intel is the way to go I'm afraid.

 

[Rannoch]

Ive had 2x 290xs with an [email protected] and it depends entirely on the game. BF4, both at 100%, others not quite so much

Cool, sounds ideal, I might wait for the new launch

 

[SlugForAButt]

Depends, what games do you play?

I would say an i5.

Maybe you missed the thread title about bang for buck.

Or are you going to compare a used and abused 2500k against a new 8320?