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piledriver - Official AMD FX4300,FX6300 and FX8350 review thread

Martini1991 said:
Oh get off it.

Also, what with the i3? The price of the 8350 and 3570 are very similar.


When has HT ever been a game changer for gaming? It's always been the case of the i5's enough as there's next to no difference between the two.
I never said the 83XX can't beat the 3770 in certain workloads (Because it can) but this is a gaming review, they may's well compare price for price.

I think I've said several times that these chips can give incredible price/performance.



Couldn't tell you, but what's that got to do with anything? I'm not saying keep the figures as they are, I'm saying changing the rig to the i5 rather than the i7 and it won't see a drastic FPS change in favour of the 8350, which it won't.

Even if they put an i5 3570 at 4.6GHZ, do the review again, the results (While lower due to clock etc) will still show similar results in the difference.
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Did you stamp your feet and bang the desk when typing that..?:rolleyes:
 
Well I won't get an Asus board, they've burned their bridges with me. So what else is there? Asrock I've always considered to be a 'budget' brand, and I have no idea what their RMA is like. There's MSI, but I also had a very bad experience with the one and only board I had from them. I guess I might be willing to try em again.
 
wolvers said:
Well I won't get an Asus board, they've burned their bridges with me. So what else is there? Asrock I've always considered to be a 'budget' brand, and I have no idea what their RMA is like. There's MSI, but I also had a very bad experience with the one and only board I had from them. I guess I might be willing to try em again.
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Asus are being a very hard brand to like at the moment.
Asrock..... I still couldn't buy a board myself, but I'd build them for others on a budget.
MSI? I like, but ironically the only board I've had die on me is an MSI, that was a 5GHZ clock on a 2500k that did it.

But I wouldn't say no to another MSI.
 
You can't enter a discussion at all, anyone brings up a counter point and you'll just say something pathetic like "Spanking Intels monkey"

Even when it's perfectly valid.

You're definitely the most unbalanced poster I've seen on this forum.
 
Its nice to see AMD with something a bit more price / performance competitive, but as a gamer I think I'll still wait for Hazwell to upgrade my 920.
 
kitch9 said:
Why are we comparing a 250 quid chip with a 150 quid chip again?
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I agree the 3770K is in a higher price bracket, but for gaming it is no different to a 3570K (maybe 5-10% at a push), therefore there appears to be in that review a significant benefit to running even an i5 if you are using a crossfire setup.
 
Chrisoldinho said:
I agree the 3770K is in a higher price bracket, but for gaming it is no different to a 3570K (maybe 5-10% at a push), therefore there appears to be in that review a significant benefit to running even an i5 if you are using a crossfire setup.
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That '5-10%' (or whatever it may be) is still significant info, particularily when and where it rears itself.
The fact that a i5 will push more frames in most scenarios is essentialy a given, but the vr-zone review is not representative of either the i5 or actual gaming setups so it doesn't tell us that much. In some of those tests the HT is clearly a contriibuting attribute that the i5 doesn't have.
What it does tell us is at low gfx settings the i7 pushes a lot more frames than the 8350, this lead is seen to be reduced as you climb to high and ultra settings with an unexplained exception. Yet at 1080p with xfire'd 7970's the effect is exaggarated throughout the review accross all setting levels in an unrealistic scenario. Alone it's simply not a good review, poor methodology and limited breadth. Combined with i5 benches, a few more of them, and a higher res alongside it would be a diff matter.
 
I'd be surprised to see a 10% difference to be frank, wouldn't be so surprised to see 5% though.

I'd much rather see an i5 than an i7 for the comparison though.

So hopefully they come through, and use a higher resolution, I wouldn't want to see anything less than x1440 for 7970 Crossfire, although people will game at 1080p with 7970 Crossfire because they're stupid :p
 
I've pulled the trigger on an 8350 w gigabyte UD3 board. I will be getting a single 7850 soon. It'll suit my needs. I game at 1080p through my TV. But I was more interested in the encoding performance. Will be at stock or a minimum overclock until I pick which cooler to go for but obviously once my cooling is sorted I will see how far I can push it.
 
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