Advice for upgrading to FX 8350

[d1nky]

Freeken spot on post. No BS. Straight speak.

That heat thing you mention is exactly why I suggested the FX-6300 because you are not lying about HOT...using 8 cores.

RGone...ster.

with an overkill loop (360+240 rad, all corsair fans push/pull, lapped cpu, decent paste)

playing a game of BF4 at 4.9ghz 1.53v for 4 hours gets my cpu to about 40-45*c (max is apparently 62*c) also it gets loud with 10+ high speed fans.

(atm I got xfire back in as I wanted more powaa in BF4, and that adds more heat in the case)


think of it this way, to take your rig from what you have and get a decent FX8350 build..

8350 £140
PSU £120+
waterloop £200+
RAM £70
SSD £80 (because HDDs are slow)

(sterling as im lazy)

an i7, mobo and ssd at stock will more than likely beat ^^ that build.

without the heat issue, hassle of a full loop, works out cheaper tbh, intel insurance, wont bottleneck sli 760s, utilises an SSD properly, memory controller x10 better, upgrade paths, not 3 years old, higher scores/epeen in benches, scale well with a slight oc etc


BUT.. and that's a big butt.. (im keeping it unbiased)

I love AMD chips, they are rock solid, in general cheaper platforms, fun to overclock, good for amateur (and pro) benching/overcooking, they have the name FX, you don't have to go all out on a custom loop for 4.4ghz, with an SSD are pretty fluid/quick in windows.

but then refer to paragraph 1