Not true the 8320 is in stock at 1 online store which i cant mention
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piledriver - Official AMD FX4300,FX6300 and FX8350 review thread
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Not true the 8320 is in stock at 1 online store which i cant mention
Soldato
Not everyone that posts here is in the UK. The internet is global you know! 
Caporegime
Also think OCUK had stock at one point?
Soldato
Must be the one that shipped mine today. Now I've just got to wait for the rest of my build to arrive too.
I'm going from an E2200 booting off a 74Gb Raptor and 4 gb 1066MHz DDR2 to an FX 8320 with a Samsung 830 SSD bootdrive and 8 gigs of 2133 Mhz DDR3. I may find myself too shocked to provide a proper evaluation for days. Still need to order a case and cooling though. To go air or water...and which midsize tower for each?
Soldato
The website says they have the 8320, but not on the Piledriver section page.
Now that's an upgrade!
Is there anything expected soon after the 8350 (that would fit in the same mobos) that is coming around soon (a refresh or another faster chip?)? I'm toying between a small upgrade from my 8120 to 83xx and waiting a bit longer, as long as I don't need to change mobo.
Soldato
Have received the CPU now, just waiting for bits and bobs to arrive from OcUK tomorrow and I can start assembling the build.
Soldato
Did see something interesting when reading the 8320/8350 owners thread on overclockers.net. Apparently if you turn off cores 1, 3, 5, & 7 iso that you only have one core per module it'll boost IPC circa 20%. Very interesting for when you're running those lower threaded games and the like. This'll also mean you can clock it a little bit higher at the same time so will make it much more competitive in WoW and the like.
just swapped my 8350 order for a 8320.
will have togive this a go.
Do you have links?
There seems to be plenty of 8320 stock knocking around but no 8350, I am guessing they're struggling with yields again.
Wasn't the scheduler patches eventually only included in Windows 8 supposed to achieve that? if you only run a 4 thread game it should only use one core per module anyway?
Wasn't the scheduler patches eventually only included in Windows 8 supposed to achieve that? if you only run a 4 thread game it should only use one core per module anyway?
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Soldato
My 8320 just turned up.
Soldato
I'm staying with the full fat version as I'm in no great hurry this time. Also I haven't yet recieved some super cheap 2133 DDR3 I've ordered so this build is on temporary hold.
Soldato
It's on this thread somewhere. I don't know if that's true but I'll try it on mine once it's assembled and see.
It'll be interesting to see how far I can push it, I'm going aircooling with a Thermalright Silver Arrow so may not get quite as high as some of the watercooled rigs have done.
Yeah, I thought Windows 8 did that by default...
Caporegime
Be interesting to try it in Windows 8 and then do that module thing, see if it does make a difference.
Soldato
Well I'll be installing Windows 8 so I shall find out. Which bench would people recommend for me to test it with?
Caporegime
Go for something like Fritz chess, set it to 4 threads (When it's an 8 core) and then when it's a quad core try 4 again, see if it improves.
Then Cinebench single thread benchmark with it as an 8 core, then as a quad core.
Although, if the scheduler patch doesn't work correctly in some benchmarks, it may show a gain when it should already be getting that performance.
Then Cinebench single thread benchmark with it as an 8 core, then as a quad core.
Although, if the scheduler patch doesn't work correctly in some benchmarks, it may show a gain when it should already be getting that performance.