AMD FX 8320 or FX 8350

[Kitty2Kat]

So aside from the price point on these CPU's, which one would be the better bang for the buck the AMD FX 8320 $179 on newegg or AMD FX 8359 $219. on newegg?
Now, most of the bench marks will be done using Windows, However, how well will this work for Linux Ubantu?
What other places sell this cpu? seems like newegg went up on the price for the FX 8350 already!

 

[hokiealumnus]

Assuming the 8320 clocks relatively close to the same level as the 8350, the 8320 would likely be better bang for the buck. The 8120 definitely didn't seem limited compared to the 8150, but we don't know yet if the 83xx chips clock the same; there haven't been any guinea pigs yet. If you do go that route, let us know how it goes.

I have no idea on the Ubuntu thing. It should work just as well. The windows-specific scheduler updates only led to a ~5% difference IIRC. They may even have done that already on the linux kernel.

 

[RGone]

Which one you purchase to me would depend on just how MUCH you might with to overclock. There seemed an under-current and not widely recognized situation where the FX-8150's would overclock just a little bit further than the FX-8120s would. Just a shade less voltage for 'X' overclock with the pricier FX-8150. Almost like AMD actually did choose the better silicon of or for the FX-8150's.

With almost NO FX-8320's having been tested or reviewed, it is nearly impossible to do more than guess what might be the actual difference between overclocking results of the FX-8350 vs the FX-8320 and if the price difference is of any real value to an enthusiast.

To date, it would seem your money situation would be the real buying criteria.