Would an FX CPU be a worthy upgrade?

[Martini1991]

Is there any physical difference between an FX 8320 and 8350 chip? Does one overclock better than the other or is it a 2600k-2700k kind of situation?

One's just higher clocked, possibly higher binned,

 

[elroberto]

Unless you're on Watercooling I doubt most people would see much difference. I can get pretty good clocks on an 8320 and currently have it running at 4.5Ghz 24/7. My advice would be to save the money and invest in a good cooler.

 

[V F]

I did consider about getting another HD7850 but my motherboard only supports crossfire at 8 x 8 not 16 x 16 so i am guessing that would reduce significantly any benefits of running duel GPU's.

Not really. I'm on 8x by 8x. I haven't really lost any performance.

Crossfire will be fine. (From a bandwidth point of view.)

Indeed.

 

[MaxP779]

Is there any physical difference between an FX 8320 and 8350 chip? Does one overclock better than the other or is it a 2600k-2700k kind of situation?

Exactly as you said, its a 2600k 2700k situation, no difference.

 

[Helcaraxe]

May have to consider another hd7850 next month then. I'm sure the wife won't notice a second gpu in the case

 

[V F]

Heh, unless she notices the electricity bill.

 

[medseven]

I think it's worth mentioning that although increase in FPS might not be HUGE in a lot games, your whole gaming experience will be better. Your PC will boot faster, Windows will feel snappier, your programs and games will load faster and with a FPS counter running you'll notice and increase in FPS aswell. From boot to shutdown the whole experience will generally be snappier!

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

In certain games(an example being a few Blizzard ones),you can see great large performance improvements.

 

[Chain]

I wouldn't upgrade to anything less that the 8 cores I got the first 4 core fx chip & had lots of issues with it ended up getting rid of it & swapping to intel when I could afford to.

 

[Helcaraxe]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

The 8350 turned up on Friday and I spent a good part of the weekend playing around with the settings. I have overclocked at 4.7ghz with the RAM at 2133 and all running stable at 1.45v which I very happy with. I think I have probably reached my limit with my Arctic Freezer 13 pro for cooling as it was reaching 60 C under Prime95. I might look to a better cooler to run this overclock or peg it back abit.

Overall though I'm very impressed.

 

[Suarez7]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

The 8350 turned up on Friday and I spent a good part of the weekend playing around with the settings. I have overclocked at 4.7ghz with the RAM at 2133 and all running stable at 1.45v which I very happy with. I think I have probably reached my limit with my Arctic Freezer 13 pro for cooling as it was reaching 60 C under Prime95. I might look to a better cooler to run this overclock or peg it back abit.

Overall though I'm very impressed.

Good to hear

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