Are these worth a damn any more? Only $60, but still uses 125w to get about half of what the R5 2600 can do at 65 watts. Still, something in me is attracted to that 8-core goodness. Are these worth a second look in this day and age or not?
Is This Guy's Time Past?
Ryder Campbell
Aaron Edwards
The only upgrade path for AM3+, Phenom II X6 can't compete due to missing SSE 4.1/.4.2 IS.
> Are these worth a second look in this day and age or not?
Wouldn't recommend for new systems, you're better off with Xeon E3-1230, but finding worthy motherboards for it is a pain.
Benjamin Walker
I have an older AM3 puter that I was considering upgrading with this, but in reality I don't really need to. I have a Ryzen 7 system and can do all of my editing and gayming on that. I'll probably just plug my older computer into my TV and use it to watch movies and Youtube, etc.
Sebastian Murphy
It was always a piece of shit. Anyone who says otherwise is posting cope or some incurable amd sycophant.
It's sad that amd fanboys are still running damage control on shitdozer when they finally have a half decent processor they could be shilling instead.
Anthony Martinez
>8-core goodness
One modern CPU core is worth two or more FX in terms of cache and performance.
Ryder Adams
Still beats the entry segment, its threshold is a bit below Ryzen 2400G.
cpubenchmark.net
Gavin Foster
>cpubenchmark
kek
Asher Watson
The more basic a website design, the more trustworthy it is.
Luis Perry
I use a 8370 @ 4.7ghz with a 1080 ti.
It's fine.
Not great, but "fine."
E.g Fallout 4 @ 60 fps with the 60gb texture pack on 5760x1080.
Can't really pull over that though.
Carter Ortiz
Poorfag here
Was thinking of overhauling my pos 7 year old prebuilt with one one these, I'd basically be replacing everything but the GPU and psu (got a 1060 and a 650 psu I already upgraded) would this be a good choice for basing my upgrade on for around $200-300?
Joseph Moore
In my experience, if you can get a good mb and ram for cheap, and aren't going for 4k gaming; yes, taking price and performance into account. (CPU cheap, ram cheap, mb cheap. It's "enough" for current titles & use cases, etc.)
Anthony Morgan
Also, put a $30 212 on it. Fucking fantastic cooler for these.
James Cruz
cpubenchmark is shit
Liam Roberts
I really only want this to play the few shitty games I used to run on Windows but can't since I switched to Linux, I don't need top of the line.
Thanks user
Leo Price
You can run pretty much anything now with Wine 4+DXVK, which is what I do.
Jose Perez
This, had a 1090T until fall last year, figured why not get the FX 8350 for $60. It gave me new lease on life. Still yearning for a Ryzen but it kicks the shit out of a Phenom II.
Ryder Sanders
AMD-FX LASTONE RELAIBLE CPU IN THE WORLD
Dylan Foster
>21% worse single core performance than a Phenom 950
Not for gaming.
Jordan Hill
If you turn the extra thread off (some mb) and clock it up that tends to go back up.
So what starts as a $75 chip ends up a $75 4core monster.
Aiden Edwards
have no giference betwin 120 and 180 FPS on 60 FPS monitor
Dylan Davis
God, do I fucking wish AMD got this one right
DDR3, lanes out the ass and no botnet
server CPUs are cheap as shit locally
Camden Lewis
I still use my 8320 and it works well but yeah the power consumption is ridiculous. A ryzen 5 1600 is only $99 at microcenter, but of course that means buying a new mobo and ram as well
Samuel Nguyen
>Runs windows 7 without any tricks
>No botnet if that matters to you
>price to performance has always been good
>cheap
>DDR3 is cheaper than DDR4
>unlocked so you can get into how overclocking works
>Performs like an i7 3770 at stock and like a 4770 when overclocked to 4.5
If you don't care about any of this stuff, just get a ryzen, also getting a nice 990FX motherboard is a bitch, you can still get a gigabyte or ASrock 970 motherboard brand new on Newegg, but you can't push more than 1.45v to the cpu because it will burn up the 4+1 phase power delivery
Robert Evans
Actually I wouldn't go any higher than 1.425v on a 4+1 phase vrm, the FX-8350 is hard to cool at 1.45v+
Lucas Flores
Went from a Phenom II X4 955 BE to an FX-8350 a few years back.
I don't regret it one bit.
It was the best CPU my aging motherboard could support, and for $120 it was the best upgrade I could do.
Running it with an RX 480 8GB.
Not really a gamer, I do mainly R&D, but it can run DOOM at 1080p very well.
Landon Foster
>8370 @ 4.7ghz with a 1080 ti
Holy bottleneck user, FX still good though.
Colton Taylor
> FX still good though.
Haters BTFO by hyper-satan quads.
Leo Murphy
The FX-8350 is Piledriver, not Bulldozer.
Asher Wright
This.
Caleb Diaz
It was a fantastic efficiency upgrade from bulldozer, what was once a 400mhz oc on the 8150 became stock base clock at 4ghz on the 8350 with 1.35v, Shame it didnt come out like that in Q3 2011.
Leo Russell
what modern brands don't have botnet?
Logan Hughes
It's a great value on it's own, but I'm not sure if that remains true after you factor in the cost of a motherboard. I hear they're getting pricey these days. DDR3 is pretty cheap now, so that might offset the extra cost of the motherboard. I have an FX-8350 with a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 and 16GB of RAM,and a Nvidia 970, and it continues to work amazingly under Linux.Never installed Windows on this machine, but any of the Wine compatible, or Steam games I've played have been perfectly playable, though, admittedly, I'm not some sort of FPS obsessing, mega-fag.
Evan Walker
The people price gouging 990FX boards on eBay need to be shot desu, because the price to performance of a 990FXA-UD3 with an FX-8350 in it was off the hook when you could buy them new.
A 65 dollar 970 board brand new with a 65 dollar 8350 still is good today.
Jeremiah Mitchell
Still rocking it in my VR rig with a gtx 1070, a rift and windows 7. If it aint broke then there's no point fixing it. Will probably have to upgrade once the next generation of headsets come out... but that kind of seems like never happening at this point.
Joshua Howard
fx 8350 @ 4.3 ghz
asus m5a99fx pro r2.0
8 gb 2133mhz ram
gtx 970
Jaxson Moore
cpu.userbenchmark.com
roughly a 35-36% difference in performance.
Ayden Powell
>Realtek updated their website after so long
>can no longer trust the chinese crab
It all makes sense now
Bentley Richardson
Maybe I'm a zoomer but I still like their new site, it's like any old driver download site.
Jackson Martin
Don't know why Phil didn't test the 8150 and 8350 because when the os puts the load on one core per each of the modules, it's pretty good, people don't realize that the bulldozer "core" is the module containing what AMD referred to as "two strong threads"
Camden Flores
>even considering FX when ryzen 2000 exists