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piledriver - Official AMD FX4300,FX6300 and FX8350 review thread

Martini1991 said:
AVX didn't end up doing much in the end, I follow PCSX2, as far as Multi-Threaded goes it's mainly 2 threads, can utilise a third but it's not really that much, you only have to see the forum users benchmark results, only 4 AMD users were able to break the 60 FPS marker.
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Is it this benchmark? http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-CPU-Benchmark-designed-for-PCSX2-based-on-FFX-2

It seems daft to me, as why would I use software to render it? Thats what my 7850's there for! and you cant use more than two threads in the bench, which you can do with the software rendering, so yeah intel's bound to do better.
 
GPU barely makes a difference in PCSX2, it's pretty much entirely CPU dependant, the benchmark focuses on the CPU performance and how it's going to perform in most of the games.

If you think an FX will make your PCSX2 better, give it a shot.

There's a reasoning for the methodology and why people do use the benchmark.
 
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pandem0nium said:
Is it this benchmark? http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-CPU-Benchmark-designed-for-PCSX2-based-on-FFX-2

It seems daft to me, as why would I use software to render it? Thats what my 7850's there for! and you cant use more than two threads in the bench, which you can do with the software rendering, so yeah intel's bound to do better.
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At least its not as bad as using Intel friendly Photoshop CS4 to bench chips (like some reviews do) when Photoshop CS6 is the latest software and turns that completely on its head,- favoring AMD http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-vishera-review,3328-9.html

Having said that i have CS6 and i don't use the CPU on it at all, that's what (amongst other things) my 7870 is for, it completely blows any CPU out of the watter.
 
Martini1991 said:
GPU barely makes a difference in PCSX2, it's pretty much entirely CPU dependant, the benchmark focuses on the CPU performance and how it's going to perform in most of the games.

If you think an FX will make your PCSX2 better, give it a shot.

There's a reasoning for the methodology and why people do use the benchmark.
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If you're comparing relative cpu performance, why not allow the most threads the CPU can handle? If that's a deciding factor for how that processor handles the software it should be included.

I'd be surprised if it is all that cpu intensive, the FPS on games I've played never drop below the maximum.
 
How much into your PCSX2 are you?
It's not the perfect benchmark, a game sequence not using software rendering would have been better.

But when you're actually running a game, you wouldn't be using software rendering, so you'd still be stuck to your 3 threads (Favouring 2) I can only assume that's why it's the 2 limit (Given the 3rd doesn't actually change much, it's just small stuff they can offset)

My main point though, the FX series doesn't do much over Phenom II in PCSX2.
 
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Martini1991 said:
The CS6 thing isn't the same. That thread is only there to help each other as end of the day they all want a consistent emulating experience.
The GPU is pretty much irrelevant in PCSX2.
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Is it any good? i want it to play Grand Turismo 1, 2 ,3, 4 (PS2 i think)

I played 1 and 2 on the PS1 back in the mid 90's, loved those games, i'm still waiting for them to be ported to PC, not that they ever will.
 
Martini1991 said:
How much into your PCSX2 are you?
It's not the perfect benchmark, a game sequence not using software rendering would have been better.

But when you're actually running a game, you wouldn't be using software rendering, so you'd still be stuck to your 3 threads (Favouring 2) I can only assume that's why it's the 2 limit (Given the 3rd doesn't actually change much, it's just small stuff they can offset)

My main point though, the FX series doesn't do much over Phenom II in PCSX2.
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Well it can use the two newer instruction sets at least.
Whether I'd notice any difference or not I'll have to find out!

quite a lot recently. I've set up a 4Gb ram disk as well to put the Iso's in for faster load times. I've always been a fan of ePSXe as well.
 
Why choose the 8350 over the 8320? the latter is clocked lower but seems to be able to overclock the same, and turbo mode is nearly identical at stock. it seems to be priced more aggressively as well which is good.
 
unless the 8350 is slightly better cherry picked id save money and get the 8320 myself. pondered all weekend was going pd or intel and i3570k is my choice.

prices are slightly to high on the amd stuff
 
3570k is a cracking cpu Dg, well priced, oc's pretty good as well. The heat issue with ib is only an issue if you chase high oc's with high vcore. Im on 4.2ghz with a lazy asus windows oc, 1.244 vcore at 4.2ghz. It should do 4.2 with a lot less voltage with proper bios overclocking, ive just been lazy so far.
 
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