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piledriver - Official AMD FX4300,FX6300 and FX8350 review thread

Martini1991 said:
After overclocking an i7 (And the FX83), the difference won't be that great.
Like I said before, you're better off on a gulftown.

If you had an AM3+ board now, then sure for encoding it's brilliant price/performance
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I was just looking at OCing and I think you're right. There's ~30% extra from my 920 and ~20% available from the 8350, so the ultimate gap will be less than shown by Anandtech.

Still, there's better off....... and then there's something different. :)
 
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After the release of Sandybridge, Bulldozer and Ivybridge I am still waiting for a good excuse to upgrade my Core i5 760 but think I will be waiting for Haswell.

If I already had an AM3+ board I would be upgrading to these new AMD processors that's for sure.
 
So, doing the math, it's at best 10% faster than Bulldozer, which was 10-15% slower than Phenom II, but will clock 12% faster than my Phenom II..

Hmmm, so if i spend money on a new Piledriver CPU,Mobo,DDR3 Ram,Cooler..say £300, I'll end up with a PC thats about 5%,clock for clock, faster than my current 3yr old rig.

DERP.....:rolleyes:

Words cannot truly express the fail boat AMD is at the moment.
 
ubersonic said:
Hey don't be so quick, the FX-8350 can beat the i7-920 by 6 fps in WoW, that means it *should* be able to beat the slightly higher clocked i5-750 too! Intel's dominance in WoW may be coming to an end :P
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Just a shame that from the looks of it WoW is entirely single threaded. It doesn't even take advantage of hyperthreading as the FPS increase from the 3570k to the 3770k is roughly equal to the increase in stock clocks between the two chips.

In future it'll become less of an issue. We've already seen Q6600s continue to be useful in modern games like BF3 because of how well threaded they are. However, it doesn't justify an upgrade from my 955 BE as I'd need a new motherboard as well. I'll wait for steamroller I think :p
 
JonSmith said:
Just a shame that from the looks of it WoW is entirely single threaded. It doesn't even take advantage of hyperthreading as the FPS increase from the 3570k to the 3770k is roughly equal to the increase in stock clocks between the two chips.

In future it'll become less of an issue. We've already seen Q6600s continue to be useful in modern games like BF3 because of how well threaded they are. However, it doesn't justify an upgrade from my 955 BE as I'd need a new motherboard as well. I'll wait for steamroller I think :p
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I was just looking through Anandtech bench and compared the FX6300 and Core i3 3220:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/699?vs=677

Under Windows 8 the FX6300 is faster than the Core i3 3220 in Skyrim and D3 using a GTX680.
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
This review uses a GTX580:

http://www.techspot.com/review/586-amd-fx-8350-fx-6300/page6.html

There is not much between the two CPUs.
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buchtis said:
Doesn't look good at all.
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Indeed but i think is a bit to quick to right off the Memory speed issue when the motherboard and BIOS/compatibility can play a big factor.

There are times that i could not run the default memory divider for my mem without it locking up in windows until i upgraded the bios.
 
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The stock closed loop water cooler.

Clearly, cooling capacity is going to be a bottleneck for most folks. I find AMD’s reference heat sink and fan to be dismally insufficient, and a beefy third-party upgrade is going to add to the FX’s cost. But, for the sake of testing, I used the closed-loop liquid cooler AMD offered with its FX processors last year to reach those overclocks.
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The AMD supplied cooler is based on the Kuhler 920 AFAIK.

BTW,the FX8350 once it hits its original £150 price-point looks very good for a budget rendering rig:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/fx-8350-vishera-review,review-32550-9.html

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/880-7/rendu-3d-mental-ray-v-ray.html

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...-8350-cpu-review-amds-vishera-arrives-12.html

http://www.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=408737&garpg=9#content_start

The performance in the latest versions of 3ds Max,POV Ray and Blender is very competitive against the Core i7 3770K, and a much bigger increase over the FX8150.
 
JonSmith said:
Just a shame that from the looks of it WoW is entirely single threaded. It doesn't even take advantage of hyperthreading as the FPS increase from the 3570k to the 3770k is roughly equal to the increase in stock clocks between the two chips.
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Wow is optimized for tri core CPU's (which means quads are optimum for it as there's a core left for the O/S) above 4 cores the really isn't and improvement and HT does nothing either, hence why the quad core i5 750 can beat the lower clocked i7 920 with HT, and why the new piledriver quad beats the lower clocked hex and octo piledrivers.

This may seem like pointless information but the are over 10 million WoW players out there and for somebody who mostly plays it knowing the 4 core £99 chip will beat the £144 one for their uses is valuable info.
 
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