Scored an AMD FX system for cheap, but there is a dilemma....

Theflaminroids · Jun 27, 2015

So, my current setup is in my sig; old i7 truckin' along at 3.3ghz. Anyhow, a friend who knows nothing about computers sold me a system for $100 and here is what I got:
AMD FX 8350 4.0 GHZ
ASUS M5A99x Pro 2.0
Corsiar Vengeance DDR3 1866mhz 2x8 GB
EVGA GT 640 1 GB video card
WD Blue 7200rpm 1 TB HDD
Sandisk 240GB SSD
Antec 550 watt PSU
Beat up Cooler Master case

My question is; should I swap out the AMD with my Intel setup?

RGone · Jun 27, 2015

Likely not to be a real noticeable difference. Your Video card is better. Only thing I see that is a real plus is the size of the SSD in the AMD setup. You don't mention what is doing the 'cooling' of the FX-8350 and if it is stock cooling you will not be able to overclock the FX an amount great enough to just forge on out ahead of the i7-920 at 3.3GHz. Probably just about a wash between the two.

RGone...

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Well I just searched i7 920 vs FX-8350 and the actual people were almost tied for what to do as in upgrading from i7 920 to FX-8350 in saying yes and no. That is about a wash as I said. There were a few respondents showing some sites benching of a bunch of cpus in some applications and the FX-8350 did okay winning some benches.

And then same thing I mentioned when you did not say what was cooling the AMD cpu...the users said without good cooling little overclock to forge on out with greater peformance.

Heck bench your old rig. Then Swap your video card into the AMD rig and bench it. Then YOU know what you have and are not guesssing or wanting somebody eles's opinion about what you actually have in your hands.
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ShrimpBrime · Jun 27, 2015

My brother had a 920. Decent chip, a little older.

Have a personal example....

I had a 2500K and I also had a 965BE.

OCed both and 3D benched both. Outcomes where identical.

Then I realized for most gaming, Your GPU is going to matter more over the Cpu.

My suggestion is simple...

Sell most of the HW from one of the two rigs and upgrade XFX Radeon HD7870 2GB to a newer GPU to increase you frame rates and gaming experience.

Tech Tweaker · Jun 27, 2015

You may want to take these scores with a grain of salt, but this is so far the only website I've found which has a direct comparison of those two CPU's.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-920-vs-AMD-FX-8350

Another comparison:
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/321/AMD_FX-Series_FX-8350_vs_Intel_Core_i7_i7-920.html

MaddMutt · Jun 30, 2015

You did not mention, what you are currently doing with your Intel rig.

@ T_T can you point me in the direction of this setup???? I have a 8350 and a 8370 that I WOULD LOVE to take beyond 6GHz

Much better overclocked clock speed (Water) 8.79 GHz vs 3.94 GHz Around 2.2x better overclocked clock speed (Water) -------referring to the difference between the 8350 & i7 920

@ E_D I didn't know that LN was classified as water????

Mandrake4565 · Jun 30, 2015

MaddMutt said:
@ T_T can you point me in the direction of this setup???? I have a 8350 and a 8370 that I WOULD LOVE to take beyond 6GHz

You need to go sub ambient cooling.

Janus67 · Jun 30, 2015

MaddMutt said:
You did not mention, what you are currently doing with your Intel rig.

@ T_T can you point me in the direction of this setup???? I have a 8350 and a 8370 that I WOULD LOVE to take beyond 6GHz

Much better overclocked clock speed (Water) 8.79 GHz vs 3.94 GHz Around 2.2x better overclocked clock speed (Water) -------referring to the difference between the 8350 & i7 920

@ E_D I didn't know that LN was classified as water????

Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) isn't classified as water, it is extreme/sub-ambient. Only water and air are ambient cooling (they can only cool down as cool as the air they are surrounded by).

MaddMutt · Jun 30, 2015

I followed the link and .....I know I know.... that the FX 8350 was water cooled to 8.7GHz. That is not water cooling unless you like take it to the north pole and pour water on it and let it freeze.

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Mandrake4565 said:
You need to go sub ambient cooling.

I'm not ready yet to step from water to dice but I have already got some good ideas for my pot

MaddMutt · Jun 30, 2015

Janus67 said:
Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) isn't classified as water, it is extreme/sub-ambient. Only water and air are ambient cooling (they can only cool down as cool as the air they are surrounded by).

I understand the basics : Nitrogen which is a gas in it's normal state, is cooled (supercooled really) until it turns into a liquid state

Mandrake4565 · Jun 30, 2015

Now I see what you're talking about Maddmutt, yeah 8+ Ghz on water might be a little tough. With -20c water during the winter I topped out at about 5.8 ghz.

MaddMutt · Jun 30, 2015

I think the person that put that there must have been using that BONG that Silver's be talking about making

ShrimpBrime · Jul 1, 2015

It's clearly a typo fellas. Should read 4.79ghz as this would be a reasonable clock speed on (water)

3.94 x 2.2 = 8.668.

3.94 x 2.2308 = 8.789352

8794mhz is world record one of a kind chip. It's unlikely any one here is going to obtain this clock speed any time soon. http://valid.canardpc.com/records.php

Highest recorded speed for the 920 is only 5743mhz phase change. FX can hit this on chilled liquid.

What a crappy comparison and mathematics.

I think the person that put that there must have been using that BONG that Silver's be talking about making

Tech Tweaker · Jul 1, 2015

MaddMutt said:
You did not mention, what you are currently doing with your Intel rig.

@ T_T can you point me in the direction of this setup???? I have a 8350 and a 8370 that I WOULD LOVE to take beyond 6GHz

Much better overclocked clock speed (Water) 8.79 GHz vs 3.94 GHz Around 2.2x better overclocked clock speed (Water) -------referring to the difference between the 8350 & i7 920

@ E_D I didn't know that LN was classified as water????

That's got to be a Liquid Nitrogen overclock.

That, or there was a really massive typographical error.

Didn't notice that when I posted it.

ShrimpBrime said:
It's clearly a typo fellas. Should read 4.79ghz as this would be a reasonable clock speed on (water)

3.94 x 2.2 = 8.668.

3.94 x 2.2308 = 8.789352

8794mhz is world record one of a kind chip. It's unlikely any one here is going to obtain this clock speed any time soon. http://valid.canardpc.com/records.php

Highest recorded speed for the 920 is only 5743mhz phase change. FX can hit this on chilled liquid.

What a crappy comparison and mathematics.

+1

xrror · Jul 20, 2015

If he still has the 1366 board and he's happy with it as a system, I'd seriously look for a Xeon X5650 on ebay. While stock is 2.66Ghz... if your board can do 186 bclock, that's 4.2Ghz.

You'll need a PSU and some cooling though, Gulftown can beatdown a board quick. But even just 4.0Ghz with 12 threads they still have some kick left in the 'ol socket.

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